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General election: Britain's most unusual polling stations where voters can cast their ballots today - from tents and shipping containers to Hindu temples

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By Dan Woodland

Published: 08:52 BST, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 08:56 BST, 4 July 2024

As voters across the UK look to cast their ballots today, there is one key question on everyone's minds - where can I go to vote?

For many the answer will simply be at the nearest village hall, church or even nursery. 

But for others, their local set up might be slightly different as they find themselves queueing up in some rather unusual locations. 

From a caravan in Cambridgeshire, to a shipping container in Battersea and even a Hindu temple in Wimbledon, there are a number of surprising places that have been made into makeshift polling stations this week.

Here MailOnline shows you a glimpse of some of the most unusual, and who knows, maybe yours is on the list!

Jackie and Alan Ward sit at their polling station caravan, which even features an expandable tent section, in Whitehall Gardens

People walk outside a shipping container that has been made into a polling station near Battersea Power Station during the general election

People walk outside a polling station located inside Shree Ghanapathy Temple in Wimbledon

A police officer patrols outside the polling station in Kirby Sigston

A man hangs a polling station sign on a mobile unit at a Lidl supermarket car park in Loughborough

A polling clerk hangs a polling station sign outside the entrance archway to Christ Church in Chorleywood

Heatherbelle Bates took her horse along as she cast her vote at Holne in Devon 

Another makeshift polling station in a portakabin in Andover, Hampshire

The Forum Theatre in Northallerton is also being used as a polling station today

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