Some of Britain’s most significant landmarks are featured on a new collection of stamps.

From Manchester Town Hall to the ZSL London Zoo, these landmarks represent some of the most important places in the UK’s history and form a huge part of our heritage

The series depicts scenes beginning with letters M to Z to complete Royal Mail’s alphabet of tourist attraction stamps.

The collection includes the Roman Baths in Bath, the White Cliffs of Dover, the wartime code-breaking Station X at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire and Portmeirion, a Mediterranean-style village in North Wales.

Bletchley Park, home of the Enigma codebreaker, is particularly significant because the Post Office maintained vital communications such as teleprinters and built codebreaking devices during World War II.

To celebrate the launch, Royal Mail projected images of all 14 stamps in the M-Z issue on the side of Dover’s impressive cliffs.

The first-class stamps each depict one scene and the series also features Manchester Town Hall, Narrow Water Castle in County Down, London law court The Old Bailey, Oxford University’s The Queen’s College, Stirling and Urquhart Castles in Scotland, the North East’s Tyne Bridge, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the Gothic York Minster cathedral in York and ZSL London Zoo.

The stamps depicting landmarks beginning with the letters A to L were launched in October 2011.

“Royal Mail’s latest set of stamps is a brilliant celebration of all that’s great about the UK’s visitor attractions,” said Britain’s Tourism Minister John Penrose.

“Our wonderful natural landscapes, our built heritage and all the special places that make this country unique are brought together in a really stylish collection from the Royal Mail, which is a perfect complement to all that’s happening in this Jubilee and Olympic year.”

Philip Parker, spokesman for Royal Mail Stamps, said: “Our two-part journey around the UK has proved a wonderful reminder of the fantastic number of landmarks we are fortunate to enjoy in the UK.

“From Manchester Town Hall to the ZSL London Zoo, these landmarks represent some of the most important places in the UK’s history and form a huge part of our heritage.

“After the first part of the series, people were intrigued as to what we would do when it came to the letter X. But we’ve always known that Station X Bletchley Park would be an appropriate location to celebrate on a stamp given its rich heritage in our country’s World War II effort.”

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