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  • ...is a city in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Its name derives from the [[River Sheaf]], which runs through the city. The core of the city is in [[Yorkshi ...y|Loxley]], the [[Porter Brook]], the [[River Rivelin|Rivelin]], and the [[River Sheaf|Sheaf]]. There are more than 200 parks, woodlands and gardens in Shef
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  • [[File:Staveley river rother 631556 c80561d2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Rother at Staveley, Derbys The '''River Rother''' is a river 27 miles long in [[Derbyshire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. The town of [[Rotherham
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  • .... A river of the [[Peak District]], it is ultimately a tributary of the [[River Goyt]], which it meets at [[Marple, Cheshire]]. [[File:Marple River Goyt 0297.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The Etherow enters the Goyt]]
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  • ...woodland found on the steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the [[River Mole]]. ...ands at the south eastern corner of the Mole Gap, the valley carved by the River Mole through the North Downs.<ref name=Bannister_p2>{{harvnb|Bannister|1999
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  • ...the 1st century&nbsp;AD at a crossing of the [[River Don, Yorkshire|River Don]]. Under Antoninus Pius the ''Notitia Dignitatum'' called this fort ''Danum ...e that is now St George's Minster next to the [[River Don, Yorkshire|River Don]].
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  • ...wns spreading from [[Manchester]]. It stands on flat ground south of the [[River Mersey]] about 8 miles southwest of Manchester city centre, and 3 miles sou ...f Altrincham's industrialisation. The canal was connected in 1776 to the [[River Mersey]], providing the town not only with a water route to Manchester, but
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  • ...'Upper Horse'', Canvey is an alluvial island formed from the silt in the [[River Thames]] and material entering the estuary on the tides of the [[North Sea] The Normans changed little. Canvey recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] was a land of sheep farming past
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  • ...]], in the [[West Derby Hundred]]. It stands lies on high-ground on the [[River Tawd]], six miles west of [[Wigan]], and 13 miles north-east of [[Liverpool The [[River Tawd]] flows through Skelmersdale into a country park. The main country par
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  • ...sisting of just a few houses at the T-junction of lanes beside the [[River Don]]. This is the floodplain of the Don where the river is canalised and embanked, the land flat and level with no discernable hill
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  • ..., Yorkshire|River Don]], where the Don meets the [[River Rother, Yorkshire|River Rother]], between [[Sheffield]] and [[Doncaster]]. Beyond the town centre and away from the Don Valley, the Rotherham district is largely rural, containing a mixture of fa
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  • ...n Fells]] occupy a triangular sector of the Lake District, bordered by the River Cocker to the north-east and [[Wasdale]] to the south-east. Westwards the h ...above Wasdale are unremittingly steep, 2,000 feet of grass and scree with little to break the monotony. The only stream on these slopes is Ill Gill, falling
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  • ...ch here forms the border with [[Nottinghamshire]] to the west. A lane runs don to the riverbank at a point called Trent Port. ...er fort at [[Torksey]], the point just before the Roman road crossed the [[River Trent]]. The modern A156 road crosses the ancient [[Roman road]] (now the A
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  • Budleigh stands at the mouth of the [[River Otter]], where the estuary forms an area of reed bed and grazing marsh, an ...er one of his failed get-rich-quick schemes, Mr E Blackadder exclaimed "I don't believe it! Goodbye Millionaire's Row. Hello Room 12 of the Budleigh Salt
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  • ...tty market town tumbling down the hill to the head of the estuary of the [[River Dart]] in eastern [[Devon]]. It is about 22 miles south of the city of [[Ex ...is tidal and forms a winding estuary down to the sea at [[Dartmouth]]. The river continues to be tidal for about a mile above the town, the tidal limt being
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  • ...ron. [{{IPA|fɔɪ}}]) is a small town and cargo port at the mouth of the [[River Fowey]] in south [[Cornwall]]. Both vehicle and foot ferry services cross the river, to Bodinnick and to Polruan (on foot only). A ship to shore water taxi se
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  • ...hard Cementarius, who built the [[Brig o' Balgownie]], the first Bridge of Don, in Old Aberdeen. It is believed to be one of the three oldest tower house ...untains]]; the situation of the Elsick Mounth terminating at a ford to the River Dee is thought to have been instrumental in the strategic siting of Drum Ca
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  • ...ort on the north coast of [[Cornwall]], standing on the west bank of the [[River Camel]] estuary approximately five miles northwest of [[Wadebridge]], ten m ...is one of three said to have been founded by the saint, the others being [[Little Petherick]] and [[Bodmin]]. It is quite large and mostly of 13th and 14th c
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  • Bakewell is on the [[River Wye, Derbyshire|River Wye]], about 30 miles north of the [[county town]], [[Derby]], and thirteen ...eloped as a trading centre. The Grade I listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye at Bakewell was constructed in the 13th century, and is one of the few
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  • ...10>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8468126.stm 'Don't bomb' idea for Cape Wrath firing range], BBC news website, 2010-01-10. Re ...e.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/291045/details/kervaig+river+road+bridge/ Kearvaig River road bridge], Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of S
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  • ...y of the Langstrath Beck, making for Stonethwaite.<ref name="blair">Blair, Don: ''Exploring Lakeland Tarns'': Lakeland Manor Press (2003): ISBN 0-9543904- ...ic crags, finally reaching the summit by way of a rocky route known as the River of Boulders, running parallel to the Great Slab. Finally on the north-east
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