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The latest announcement brings the total number of official Icons of England in the ICONS collection to 53 - all given star treatment with in-depth features, quizzes, video clips and interviews. In addition, there are now approximately 600 icons nominations, which continue to attract votes and comments from the public.

The complete list of 20 new icons in this wave is as follows:

Fish and Chips
Rugby
Robin Hood
The Tower of London
The Magna Carta
Hedges
The Bobby
Foxhunting & The Ban
The Pint
White Cliffs of Dover
The Archers
Monty Python
Sherlock Holmes
Lake District
Parish Church
The OED
Bowler Hat
Mini motor car
The Oak Tree
‘Oxbridge’

The project, which launched in January 2006, has definitely caught the public imagination. Funded initially by Culture Online, part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, ICONS has attracted more than 350,000 votes for the nation’s favourite icons and more than half a million people have visited the site.