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• Stirlingshire
  ...Gary limestones a middle group with coals and clay ironstones and an upper limestone group with the Hosie and Hurlet limestones; below the latter is a bed of al ...ed up. Iron ore and fireclay were worked, and oil-shale in the very east. Limestone was wrought in the Campsie Fells, and sandstone elsewhere. Busy ironworks w
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• West Lothian
  ...is series are the Queensferry limestone, the equivalent of the Burdiehouse limestone of Edinburgh, and the Binny sandstone group with shales and clays and the H ...oup possibly 2,000 ft thick in the Calciferous Sandstone and Carboniferous Limestone series. A peculiar serpentinous variety of the prevailing rock is quarried
  13 KB (2,009 words) - 14:00, 30 May 2017
• Wiltshire
  ...shire, a mostly rural county, lies on chalk, a kind of soft, white, porous limestone that is resistant to erosion, giving it a high chalk downland landscape. Th ...estershire]] and [[Somerset]], the underlying rock is the resistant oolite limestone of the [[Cotswolds]]. Part of the Cotswolds AONB is also in Wiltshire, in t
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• County Cork
  ...valleys and floodplains include woodlands, marshes, fens and species-rich limestone grasslands. The river Bandon flows through many towns including Dunmanway i
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• County Kilkenny
  ...d. A large area in the north and east contains beds of coal, surrounded by limestone strata, alternated with shale, argilaceous ironstone, and sandstone. This o
  47 KB (6,906 words) - 10:14, 16 February 2019
• County Limerick
  ...ea"; this description is accurate as the land consists mostly of a fertile limestone plain. Moreover, the county is ringed by mountains: the Slieve Felims, the
  16 KB (2,356 words) - 16:24, 31 January 2018
• County Mayo
  ...ge areas of extensive Atlantic blanket bog, whereas the south is largely a limestone landscape. Agricultural land is therefore more productive in the south tha
  37 KB (5,694 words) - 17:16, 22 June 2017
• Achanduin Castle
  The remains of the castle are seated on the summit of a limestone ridge on the north-western shore of Lismore.<ref name=can/> The south-west
  6 KB (1,029 words) - 13:42, 2 March 2022
• Belfast
  ...onathan Swift writing ''Gulliver's Travels'' while living at the bottom of Limestone Road; Cavehill resembling the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the ci
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• County flowers
  ...'||Native||[[File:Stachys alpina fontaine-des-carmes 55 080602 1.JPG|100px|Limestone woundwort]]
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• Chepstow
  ...point on the strategically-important River Wye, but also because the steep limestone gorge and castle dell afforded an excellent defensive location. William the
  19 KB (3,086 words) - 09:14, 8 April 2017
• Barrow-in-Furness
  ...ction of gas at the Rampside Gas Terminal, wood pulp, and locally quarried limestone which is exported to Scandinavia for use in the paper industry. The port,
  20 KB (2,896 words) - 09:57, 1 April 2023
• Aylesbury
  ...county town of [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on an outcrop of Portland limestone, giving it a prominent position in the surrounding marled landscape.
  7 KB (1,085 words) - 13:49, 16 December 2015
• Llandudno
  The Great Orme is a great limestone headland punching out into the [[Irish Sea]]. The Great Orme Tramway takes
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• Abergele
  ...wr at [[Tan-y-Gopa]] and Fort Dinorben (now virtually disappeared owing to limestone quarrying) at St George. On [[Gallt y Felin Wynt]], a hill above the town p
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• Buxton
  ...one and gritstone, the original town must largely have been built in local limestone, of which only the parish church of St Anne, built in 1625, remains. The pr ...f the town the [[River Wye, Derbyshire|River Wye]] has carved an extensive limestone cavern, known as Poole's Cavern, with more than 980 feet of chambers open t
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• Cotswolds
  ...led the '''Cotswold Edge''', is a result of the uplifting (tilting) of the limestone layer, exposing its broken edge.<ref name="cotsstone">{{cite web|url=http:/ ...Cotswold stone'' (a yellow oolitic limestone).<ref name="cotsstone"/> This limestone is rich in fossils, particularly of fossilised sea urchins.
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• Black Mountains
  ...hich lies a calcrete - a discontinuous limestone band known as the Ffynnon Limestone. Above this are the sandstone-dominated Senni Beds which form the upper re
  9 KB (1,459 words) - 14:22, 6 April 2018
• Plymouth
  ...books.google.com/?id=Q1QDAAAAMAAJ&q=Plymouth+Hoe+limestone&dq=Plymouth+Hoe+limestone|accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> looking out over Plymouth Sound. Its scarp f
  30 KB (4,675 words) - 16:43, 2 April 2016
• Torquay
  ...lk before going out into the bay itself. On the Rock Walk side is Devonian Limestone on which Warren Road and Fleet Street stand. The other side of the fault li
  16 KB (2,556 words) - 10:38, 4 July 2019