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• Royal Albert Bridge
  ...his gives it a total length of 2187½ ft. It carries the Cornish Main Line railway in and out of Cornwall. ==Cornwall Railway==
  21 KB (3,342 words) - 20:35, 5 October 2016
• Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
  |name=Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway |owned=Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
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• Quantock Hills
  The hills run from the Vale of Taunton Deane in the south, for about fifteen miles to the north-west, meeting the sea at [[East Quant ...don Hills]] and [[Exmoor]] to the west, and the [[Blackdown Hills]] to the south. The highest point on the Quantocks is [[Wills Neck]], at 1,261 feet.<ref n
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• West Somerset Railway
  |name=West Somerset Railway |owner=West Somerset Railway plc
  10 KB (1,640 words) - 21:54, 7 July 2015
• Foxfield Railway
  |name=Foxfield Railway |picture=Wimblebury on the Foxfield Railway - 2009-04-26.jpg
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• River Dart
  {{county|Devon}} ...which rises high on [[Dartmoor]], and releases to the sea at [[Dartmouth, Devon|Dartmouth]]. Its valley and surrounding area is a place of great natural be
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• M90 motorway
  ...he M90. The road continues as the A90 until it reaches the junction to the south of the Queensferry Crossing - the A90 becomes the M90 again at that point. ...the northern section of the motorway follows the route of the former main railway line between Perth and Edinburgh via [[Glenfarg]], [[Kinross]] and the [[Fo
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• Laleham
  '''Laleham''' is a village in south-western [[Middlesex]] beside the [[River Thames]]. It is situated adjacent ...m Burway]] is directly across the river on the Surrey side. Centred a mile south along the towpath or the humped river road is [[Chertsey Bridge]], just wit
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• Sully
  |picture caption= Part of South Road, the main village road,<br>facing East towards [[Penarth]] and [[Cardi ...l]], midway between the towns of [[Penarth]] and [[Barry]] and seven miles south-west of [[Cardiff]]. The origins of the name ''Sully'' are unclear, but the
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• Plym Valley Railway
  |name=Plym Valley Railway |county=Devon
  5 KB (726 words) - 21:27, 7 September 2016
• British Museum
  ...the [[Natural History Museum, London|British Museum (Natural History)]] in South Kensington in 1881. From 1778, a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook an
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• Carharrack
  ...rough the nearby villages of [[St Day]] to the north and [[Lanner]] to the south. The final option, again based on a corruption of the Cornish, this time o Carharrack is within the [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]], a World Heritage Site, and specifically in the Redruth
  4 KB (686 words) - 17:05, 20 July 2016
• Gwennap
  '''Gwennap''' is a village in Cornwall, about five miles south-east of [[Redruth]]. ...art of 'Area A6i (the Gwennap Mining District)' of the [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]] World Heritage Site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corni
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• Holmbush, Cornwall
  ...ining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a few houses to the south of the A390 road. It was developed in the 1970s, with the construction of h ...tin and copper mine was already disused, and further east was the disused South Cuddra copper mine.
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• Luxulyan
  |constituency=South East Cornwall ...in mid-[[Cornwall]], four miles northeast of [[St Austell]] and six miles south of [[Bodmin]].
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• Scraesdon Fort
  ...f [[Cornwall]]. It formed part of the ring of forts built in Cornwall and Devon surrounding Plymouth, to protect [[Plymouth Sound]], and, in particular Ply ...erston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south.
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• Luxulyan Valley
  ...l remains., and as such was designated as part of the [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]] World Heritage Site in 2006.<ref>[http://www.cornish-min The valley stretches south-east from the village of [[Luxulyan]] ({{wmap|50.390|-4.744}}). It reaches
  4 KB (692 words) - 22:27, 20 September 2016
• Portreath
  ...ing in the valley was recorded from 1602. Samuel Nott, a contractor from [[Devon]], was engaged to build the first mole (or quay) in 1713 on the western sid ...0s, during the American Revolutionary War, lieutenant-colonel of the North Devon militia, Francis Basset, commanded local miners to fortify the port, which
  6 KB (1,010 words) - 21:01, 23 September 2016
• Prospidnick
  ...1865">{{cite book|last=Spargo|first=Thomas|title=The mines of Cornwall and Devon; statistics and observations|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=eOgGAAAAQ ...sanooth]] and [[Budock]] to the east, and from near [[Polwheveral]] in the south to Wheal Butter to the north.<ref name="Henwood1873">{{cite book|last=Henwo
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• Plympton
  |county=Devon |constituency=South West Devon
  9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:37, 28 September 2016