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• Great Cumbrae
  ...2.4 miles long by 1.4 miles wide, rising to a height of 417 feet above sea level at "The Glaidstone" - a large, naturally occurring rock perched on the high ...- where the island's highest waterfall, Horse Falls, plunges over the old sea cliffs.<br clear=all />
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• Newcastle upon Tyne
  ...'' in [[South Shields]]. Hadrian's Wall stretched 73 miles, from the North Sea to the Solway Firth. ...as built by Dorman Long of [[Middlesbrough]], and Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world.
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• Cardiff
  The foot of Cardiff is washed by the sea. The city centre lies above the seafront, but to the south Butetown stretc ...assic limestone cliffs. The Glamorgan coast is the only part of the Celtic Sea that has exposed Jurassic (blue lias) geology. This stretch of coast, which
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• Denshaw
  Denshaw stands about 990 feet above sea level, on elevated [[Pennine]] ground by the [[River Tame, Lancashire|River Tame]
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• Greenfield, Yorkshire
  ...that comprise Saddleworth. It is stands at about 1200&nbsp;feet above sea level and every year on Remembrance Sunday a service is held there.
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• Stroma
  ...is about 2½ miles long by a mile wide, rising to just 174 feet above sea level on Cairn Hill. ...ind the salt to keep the seas salty, and the noise of the whirlpool is the sea still roaring through it.<ref>[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/odin/odi
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• Oldham
  ...-00-095162-X}}</ref> (''Holm'' is a word in Old English too, but it means "sea"; somewhat unlikely as a name given as far inland as Oldham.) An alternati ...d economic activities of the human inhabitants. Located 700 feet above sea level with no major river or visible natural resources, Oldham had poor geographi
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• Land's End to John o' Groats
  ...but such a route passes over a series of stretches of water in the [[Irish Sea]].) ...http://benumber1.co.uk/lejog.htm Benumber1], an event that saw several top-level British athletes (mainly Olympians) completing the challenge. The event was
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• Great Britain
  |L=[[Holme Fen]], [[Huntingdonshire]]:<br>9 feet below sea-level ...the end of the last Ice Age, Doggerland became submerged beneath the North Sea, cutting off what was previously the British peninsula from the European ma
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• Portsmouth
  ...the end of threats to British supremacy at sea, but the war on land and at sea dragged on for ten years more and Portsmouth was busy with warships, troop ...w-lying: the majority of its surface area is only about ten feet above sea level. The highest natural point on Portsea Island is Kingston Cross at 21&nbsp;f
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• Kington, Herefordshire
  Kington Golf Club at 1,100&nbsp;feet above sea level on Bradnor Hill is the highest golf club in England.<ref>{{cite web| url=ht
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• Fort William
  ...tertidal zone to become briefly one river before their water flow into the sea. ..., stands immediately by the town to the east and the whole height from sea level by the loch shore to the summit may be climbed from Fort William. [[Glen N
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• Shirenewton
  ...les due west of [[Chepstow]]. The village stands around 500 feet above sea level and has extensive views of the [[Severn Estuary]] and [[Bristol Channel]].
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• Sanday
  ...me consisted of several smaller islands which joined together when the sea level decreased. There is a similarly named island, Sandøy, in the Faroe Island ...t yet been officially adopted by the island authorities. It represents the sea, the distinctive sandy beaches and green meadows of the island, and the ver
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• Eastbourne
  ...e seaside strip of Sussex from the inland woods, until they punch into the sea at [[Beachy Head]]. The South Downs were originally chalk deposits laid down under the sea during the Upper Cretaceous period, and were later lifted by the same tecto
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• Ireland
  ...d the [[Mull of Kintyre]]. Between the two great islands lies the [[Irish Sea]] ...[[Carrauntoohil]] in [[County Kerry]], which rises to 3,406 feet above sea level.<ref name="OSIFAQS">{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions |work=osi.i
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• Coatbridge
  ...Loch at the present day Drumpellier Country Park. Dependent upon the water level in the loch, the remains can still be seen today.<ref>''Coatbridge (Images ...situated in Scotland's Central Lowlands. The town lies 288 feet above sea level, 9 miles east of [[Glasgow]], 6 miles south of [[Cumbernauld]] and 2 miles
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• Gruinard Island
  ..., except periodic checks by Porton Down personnel to determine the current level of contamination. ...island is mentioned in the novels ''The Enemy'' by Desmond Bagley (1977), Sea of Death by by Richard P. Henrick (1992), ''The Fist of God'' by Frederick
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• Tywyn
  ...te 19th and early 20th centuries, the town was sometimes called ''Towyn-on-Sea''. At the time of the 2001 census, 40.5% of the population were Welsh-speak ...r above the low-tide level, rock groynes, and rock revetment to protect 80 sea-front properties has been announced.
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• Snowdon
  ...f the British Isles outside [[Scotland]], climbing to 3,560 feet above sea level. It is the heart of the great massif called [[Snowdonia]], which forms the ...l; in 1773, Thomas Pennant quoted a later estimate of 3,568 feet above sea level at [[Caernarfon]].<ref name="Jones"/> Recent surveys give the height of the
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