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• Aberdeen
  During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1644-1647, the city was impartially plundered by both sides. In ...st have been quarried in the past, making for spectacular scenery and good rock-climbing.
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• Ballycastle, County Antrim
  * Knocklayde, a massive heather covered mountain (1,695 ft) crowned by Carn na Truagh (the cairn of sorrow). Easily cli ...ost northernly of the Nine Glens of Antrim, lies at the foot of Knocklayde mountain. It was named after the Princess Taisie, the daughter of King Dorm of Rathl
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• County flowers
  ...'Tuberaria guttata''||Native||[[File:Tuberaria guttata01.jpg|100px|Spotted rock-rose]] ...ock-rose||''Helianthemum nummularium''||Native||[[File:Solvända.jpg|100px|Rock-rose]]
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• Keswick
  In May, 2007 the town hosted the Keswick Mountain Festival. * A mining and rock museum.
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• Brecon Beacons
  The '''Brecon Beacons''' ({{lang|cy|Bannau Brycheiniog}}) are a mountain range in [[Brecknockshire]]. It forms the central section of the '''Brecon [[File:Llyn y Fan Fawr.jpg|thumb|left|Llyn y Fan Fawr in the Black Mountain, one of the less frequented parts of the National Park]]
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• Black Mountains
  ...in the ''Black Mountains'' called [[Black Mountain, Black Mountains|Black Mountain]]. ....085504|zoom=14}}) is known as the [[Black Mountain, Black Mountains|Black Mountain]], which reaches 2,306 feet and is Herefordshire's [[county top]]; the high
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• Ben Nevis
  ...its name is ''Beinn Nibheis'' meaning either “venomous mountain” or “mountain with its head in the clouds”. Ben Nevis rises at the western end of the ...hest cliffs in the United Kingdom, they harbour some classic scrambles and rock climbs of all difficulties, and are one of the principal locations in the U
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• Rock of Gibraltar
  [[File:Rock_of_Gibraltar_northwest.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Western face of The Rock of Gibraltar]] ...f the Iberian Peninsula, to which it is joined by just a low sand-bar. The Rock stands 1,398 feet high at its highest summit, O'Hara's Battery. It stands
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• Arthur's Seat
  ...ken in this area, and there is no traditional Scottish Gaelic name for the mountain, some have proposed that language as an origin, such as William Maitland's Like the Castle Rock on which Edinburgh Castle is built, Arthur's Seat was formed of an extinct
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• Gibraltar
  ...altarians and other nationalities. The city now spreads out far beyond the Rock into lands reclaimed from the Bay of Gibraltar. ...ning "mountain of Tariq". The name refers to the geological formation, the Rock of Gibraltar, which in turn was named apparently after the Berber Umayyad g
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• Brampton, Cumberland
  ...very early appreciation of the land; a rock known locally as "the written rock of Gelt" bears an inscription once carved by a Roman soldier of the third c ...rn Country Park to the east of the town contains the Talkin Tarn, a pretty mountain lake formed by ancient glaciers, over a mile in around its edge. A boathou
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• Ascension Island
  ...to the introduction of species by the British, Ascension Island's [[Green Mountain]] is now one of the few large-scale planned forests, and is gradually growi ...ark, was opened. Non-indigenous plants teem there, and the crown of Green Mountain is a lush halo of bamboo. Flanking one side is a large stand of tall Norfol
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• Newcastle, County Down
  ...s on the [[Irish Sea]] coast at the base of [[Slieve Donard]], the highest mountain in Ulster where the [[Mourne Mountains]] come down to the sea. Newcastle i ..., but according to a modern newspaper report 'He flew a distance of almost three miles along the foreshore at a low altitude varying between fifty and five
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• Kirkby Stephen
  ...dral of the Dales" and in Westmorland only the church in Kendal is larger. Three churches have stood on this spot. The first was built in Anglo-Saxon times; The surrounding countryside is a joy for walkers but the Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team sometimes has to assist those who are not fully prepared for th
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• Blaenau Ffestiniog
  ...the heaps of slate and waste from the industry. The railways came up the mountain to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the nineteenth century to bear the slates down to ...ack runs from Porthmodog, the line connects to Caernarfon over spectacular mountain scenery.
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• Buckley, Flintshire
  ...ckley outside the town centre include Bistre, Lane End, Padeswood, Buckley Mountain, Drury, Pentrobin, Bannel, [[Alltami]], and [[Ewloe]]. Buckley was a popular location for mining, as there were many faults in local rock formations that allowed seams of coal to be mined directly from the surface
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• Isle of Arran
  ...wild, beautiful scenery, but sparsely populated. For the rich variety of rock forms here it has been described as a "geologist's paradise".<ref name=HSmi ...the main industry being tourism. There is diversity of wildlife, including three species of tree endemic to the area.
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• Rhayader
  ...[Hereford]]; two of the most important trunk roads in mid-Wales. The B4574 mountain road to Aberystwyth is described by the AA as one of the ten most scenic dr ...onship events in lesser celebrated sports, ranging from wheelbarrow racing rock-paper-scissors and wellie wanging.<ref>[http://www.rhayadercarnival.co.uk R
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• Cross Fell
  ...[Little Dun Fell]] at 2,762 feet and [[Great Dun Fell]] at 2,785 feet. The three adjoining fells form an escarpment that rises steeply above the [[River Ede ...surface on the fell. On the south and west facing slopes of Cross Fell the rock faces have been broken up by frost action to give a scree slope made up of
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• Snowdon
  '''Snowdon''' in [[Caernarfonshire]] is the highest mountain of the British Isles outside [[Scotland]], climbing to 3,560 feet above sea ...oad path, but others are more challenging scrambles to the top. The whole mountain is designated as a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna.
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