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  • ...m the Hampshire Downs. The land rises to more than 591 feet above sea level to the north of the town at Caesar's Camp which, with the northern part of ...the town lies on gravel beds at an altitude of roughly 230 feet above sea level on an underlying geology of gault clay and upper greensand and the southern
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  • ...and the [[River Cleddau|Daugleddau]] estuary, and it winds westward to the sea. As one of the deepest natural harbours in the world, it is a busy shipping ...many centuries earlier, as a shelter by Vikings and as a staging point on sea journeys to Ireland. Here began Henry II's invasion of Ireland in 1171, an
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  • ...dens to become the [[Bristol Channel]] which in turn opens into the Celtic Sea and the wider [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The Severn's drainage basin area is 4,40 There are locks on the lower Severn to enable sea going boats to reach as far as [[Stourport]]. The most northerly lock is at
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  • ...peas. The surface is undulating and is between 139 and 236 feet above sea-level. The village itself stands at about 155 feet. The parish was once well wood
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  • ...de coast north of the Ribble's final discharge of its water into the Irish Sea. In 1972, participants at the Avenham Park celebrations were treated to a low level, low speed, flyby by Concorde.
    21 KB (3,338 words) - 08:41, 31 March 2016
  • The islands claim a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles and an exclusive fishing zone of 200 nautical miles. *[[Sea Lion Island]]
    30 KB (4,594 words) - 22:47, 5 April 2020
  • ...iles from the coast of [[Kent]] at the nearest point. To the north is open sea until the Faroe Islands and Iceland beyond, while to the west is the [[Atla ...nt above water is [[Holme Fen]] in [[Huntingdonshire]] at 9 feet below sea level. [[Lough Neagh]] in the centre of [[Northern Ireland]] is the largest body
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  • ...c of Ireland]]. It stands on the [[River Liffey]] as that river enters the sea near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast and the midst of County Dublin's ...dentally also the name of the [[Lancaster]] city which faces it across the sea).
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  • ...kport]], [[Cheshire]], and discharging in [[Liverpool Bay]] in the [[Irish Sea]]. ...al in Birkenhead. The river then continues into Liverpool Bay on the Irish Sea, after a total course of 68 miles.
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  • ...of the mountains, south of [[Brecon]]. With a summit 2,907 feet above sea-level, it is also the highest peak in Britain south of the [[Snowdonia]] mountain
    7 KB (1,081 words) - 08:24, 3 October 2017
  • ...is the summit of the [[Creach Bheinn]] which reaches 2,800 feet above sea level.
    4 KB (683 words) - 03:21, 17 December 2021
  • ...ountain with a relative height of 492 feet, regardless of height above sea level.
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  • ...ers were built to protect the vulnerable sluices that controlled the water level in the canal, being Towers Number 22 to 27 and 30, three of them are still ...the to Rye, the canal was abandoned in 1877 and leased to the Lords of the Level of Romney Marsh.
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  • ...ity joins the [[River Yare]] and enters the [[Norfolk Broads]], all at sea level. Norwich is thus at the edge of those flat lands for which Norfolk is righ ...p, Marseilles or Cologne to its positioning on an important trade route of sea or river.<ref>For table of city sizes see Corfield P., 'From Second City to
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  • ...Fells of the [[Lake District]]. Its summit stands at 3,054 feet above sea level, making it the fourth-highest mountain in England. Skiddaw stands just nor
    10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:11, 28 August 2018
  • ...The name from is from the Old English '''wæsc''; a sandbank washed by the sea. ...arks the entrance to the Lynn Channel, the one safe channel from the North Sea to the Wash's south coast.
    9 KB (1,505 words) - 11:20, 10 August 2018
  • ...approximately 3 miles across with a peak elevation of 1,808 feet above sea level. The stratovolcano [[Mount Asphyxia]] dominates the western side of the isl
    3 KB (469 words) - 18:47, 15 June 2020
  • ...Antarctic region. Most of the island is rugged and mountainous with little level coastal land. At higher elevations the island is permanently covered with i ...nds that are not permanently covered in snow or ice are part of the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion. Native vegetation on South Georgia is limited to
    14 KB (2,065 words) - 20:25, 14 October 2021
  • ...in the South Atlantic Ocean. Most of the islands, rising steeply from the sea, are rugged and mountainous. At higher elevations the islands are permanent ...able and harsh. Typical daily maximum temperatures in South Georgia at sea level are around 0&nbsp;°C in winter (August) and 8&nbsp;°C in summer (January)
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  • ...e [[county top]] of Renfrewshire, its summit reaching 1,713 feet above sea level.
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