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  • ...llage of [[Castle Camps]] at the edge of the county, at 413 feet above sea level. The county's only notable heights are [[Little Trees Hill]] and [[Wandlebu ...l lines from the [[Great Ouse]] (at the [[Huntingdonshire]] border) to the sea are the [[Old Bedford River]] and [[New Bedford River]], two great, tidal d
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  • ...coast, stretching along the coast of the [[Solway Firth]] and the [[Irish Sea]]. ...s [[Scafell]] in Cumberland, Scafell Pike standing at 3,208 feet above sea level, though not far from the seacoast. Many of the highest and most famous of
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  • ...rn [[Wales]]. It is a maritime county, bounded to the north by the [[Irish Sea]], to the east by [[Flintshire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Shropshire]], to the s ...is the south summit of [[Cadair Berwyn]], standing at 2,726 feet above sea level in the [[Cambrian Mountains]], approaching [[Snowdonia]], and it is in thes
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  • ...ountainous districts of the [[Southern Uplands]] in the north, down to the sea; lofty hills alternating in parts with stretches of tableland or rich ferti [[Loch Skeen]] in the north (found 1,750 feet above sea level) and the group of lochs around [[Lochmaben]], are the principal lakes. Out
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  • ...ngdom|shire]] on the south coast of the [[Firth of Forth]] and the [[North Sea]]. ...rth and, rounding the corner at [[Dunbar]], to the north-east is the North Sea. To landward, on the west and south-west is [[Midlothian]]; and to the sou
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  • The [[County top|highest point in the county]] is 803 feet above sea level, on the border with Buckinghamshire at the edge of [[Pavis Wood]] a quarter
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  • ...'s highest point is Boring Field, near [[Covington]] at 263 feet above sea level; the lowest highest point of all the counties. ...e county's share of the [[Great Fen]]. Much of the land here is below sea level and the landscape in the northeast in particular presents a vast, flat appe
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  • ...f the river Ness, in several of the glens and on the shores of some of the sea lochs, the county is wild and mountainous in the extreme and characterised ...ble across the scenery and ultimately drown themselves in the lochs or the sea. Of these:
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  • ...e north and north-west across the hills is [[Ayrshire]], while the [[Irish Sea]] and the [[Solway Firth]] wash its coast at the south. To Kirkcudbrightsh ...Standard]] (2,290 feet). The southern section of the shire is mostly level or undulating, but characterised by picturesque scenery.
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  • ...de the remains of old beaches at 25, 50 and 100 feet above the present sea-level are to be observed.
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  • ...nshire has borders with seven counties, but its longest border is with the sea. The [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East]] and [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West ...he industrial towns along the south bank of the [[Humber]] and the [[North Sea]] coast around [[Grimsby]] and [[Scunthorpe]].
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  • ...f the county]] is on the High Road, [[Bushey Heath]] at 502 feet above sea level, just yards from the [[Hertfordshire]] border.
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  • The county is surrounded by sea and seven other counties. It is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth ...and Hills]] advance boldly from the south-west to within five miles of the sea. The loftiest Pentland summits are [[Scald Law]] (1,898 feet), Carnethy (1,
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  • ...hire]], about five miles west of Towcester. It is about 1,400 ft above sea level according to [[Ordnance Survey]]. North-west of Blakesley, and now contiguo
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  • Along the sea coast the shores are mostly low and sandy. It is a fishing and farming coas Thus Elginshire is naturally divided into two sections, the level and fertile coast and its hinterland, known as "the Laigh o' Moray," a trac
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  • ...] and on the east by [[Morayshire]]. The county's northern edge is on the sea, its coast washed by the Moray Firth. It has an area of just 200 square mil .... Several of these border hills of Nairnshire exceed 2,000 feet above sea level, the highest being [[Carn Glas-choire|Carn Glas]], the [[county top]] at 2,
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  • ...nning across the drained [[Terrington Marsh]] to [[the Wash]]. The [[North Sea]] washes Norfolk to the east and to the north, a long, flat coast.
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  • ...nty Durham]] to the south, while its eastern side is washed by the [[North Sea]]. ...ent. Opposite Bamburgh are the [[Farne Islands]] stretching into the North Sea and well known for their abundant birdlife, and north of them the largest a
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  • ...struction of the Glasson branch, so that the canal had a connection to the sea.<ref name=hadfield183/> ...1819, and it opened in 1826, with six locks carrying the canal down to the sea.<ref>{{harvnb |Hadfield |Biddle |1970 |pp=195–196}}</ref>
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  • ...ire, Selkirkshire and Berwickshire to [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] and the North Sea, and the [[River Clyde]] flowing west and through the heart of Lanarkshire ...es Tweeddale to enter Selkirkshire, where the banks are 450 feet above sea level.
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