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  • ...larger islands, there is such variety as [[Skye]] with its chain of 3,000-foot mountains, and [[Tiree]], flat and green, [[Mull]] with broad beaches besid ...rneray, North Uist|Berneray]], [[Harris]], [[Lewis]], [[North Uist]] and [[South Uist]], and the [[St Kilda]] group further west in the Atlantic.
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  • ...ing. To the north of Strood are the remains of the canal basin, and to the south the M2 motorway bridge and bridge for the High Speed 1 railway line. ...at Mill or Rose's Mill. It was the highest in Kent with forty foot by nine foot sweeps. Together the two mills produced 400 sacks of flour a week. Great Mi
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  • ...a supply of drinking water to a reservoir at Hurleston. In 1955 the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board agreed to maintain the canal securing its future. ...ove the valley floor. It has nineteen stone arches, each with a forty-five foot span. Another aqueduct carries the canal over the [[River Ceiriog]] at [[Ch
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  • ...Ribblesdale]], and a civil parish, in [[Lancashire]]. It is a place on the south bank of the [[River Ribble]] just upstream of [[Preston]] at {{map|SD5729}} ...this road does not exist today. Sections of the road exist perhaps a mile south of the hall. The alignment of the hall does not correspond to modern roads
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  • ...d which sweeps in a long loop from the south to the north and again to the south to see a great deal of that county. The Witham rises south of [[Grantham]] close to [[South Witham]] at {{map|SK8818}}, passes [[Lincoln]] at {{map|SK9771}} and at [[B
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  • ...Middlesex|Clapton]] to the east and [[Dalston, Middlesex|Dalston]] to the south. To the south of these facilities is [[Clissold Park]], which contains a small menagerie,
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  • ...sh in the [[Ring of Gullion]] in [[County Armagh]]. It is about five miles south of [[Newry]] and lies half a mile from the border with [[County Louth]] in ...o milk her into a sieve. This angered the cow so much that she stamped her foot on this stone and then fled the valley forever. The shape of her hoof remai
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  • ...onia]] to the northern part of the island. Goose Green is two miles south-south-west of [[Darwin, Falkland Islands|Darwin]]. With a population of about 70, ...Falklands War. In 1982, there were a hundred residents; in 2000 there were forty.<ref>[http://www.falklands.info/background/visitorsguide.html]</ref> It is
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  • '''Kilkenny''' is a city in [[County Kilkenny]], in the south-east part of the [[Republic of Ireland]]. It is the [[county town]]. The ...Nearby larger cities include [[Waterford]] {{convert|45|km|mi|0|x}} south-south-east, Limerick {{convert|93|km|mi|0|x}} west and [[Dublin]] {{convert|101|k
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  • The '''Forty Foot Drain''' may be one of three drainage channels cut through the [[Great Fen] *[[Forty Foot Drain]] in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
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  • [[File:Forty Foot Drain - geograph.org.uk - 576346.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Vermuden's Drain.]] ...ene Old Course at [[Ramsey, Huntingdonshire#Ramsey Forty Foot|Ramsey Forty Foot]] through the [[Isle of Ely]] in [[Cambridgeshire]] to [[Old Bedford River]
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  • ...ington, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 227522.jpg|right|thumb|300px|South Forty Foot Drain from Donington High Bridge]] ...ton's Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1474845.jpg|right|thumb|300px|North Forty Foot Drain from Benton's Bridge]]
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  • ...eping with most Roman forts of the era, the amphitheatre was placed at the south east corner of the fort. The amphitheatre could easily seat 8,000&nbsp;peop ...ing. A Georgian house complex known as "[[Dee House]]" were built over the south end of the arena, while a Georgian townhouse called "St. John's House" was
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  • ...s (four headed by McGregors) totalling forty-eight people. One hundred and forty years later, in 1981, the population was ten at Bualnaluib, twenty-four at In 1911 a 70 foot lighthouse was built on the promontory between Gairloch and Poolewe.
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  • ...irk has suggested that the supposed remains of a Roman stone bridge on the south side of the [[River Tees|Tees]] at [[Cliffe, Yorkshire|Cliffe]] are remains ...eed]] at ''[[Trimontium]]'', the route follows the [[Leader Water]] to the foot of the [[Lammermuir]]s, where there is evidence of forts near [[Oxton, Berw
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  • ...ough]], to the south of [[Aylesbury]] in [[Buckinghamshire]], standing the foot of the [[Chiltern Hills]]. [[Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire|Coombe Hill]], on Downing Street and Chequers are about forty-one miles apart.
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  • ...ently developed suburb of Fords Farm, [[Calcot, Berkshire|Calcot]], to the south by the Holy Brook branch of the [[River Kennet]] and the water meadows of t ...ittle Shefford]] near [[Newbury]]. Anthony, their son and heir, was about forty years old when he bought Southcote and was still alive in 1610. Anthony's
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  • ...re Council, Lynn Glen Walk]</ref> and finally enters the [[River Garnock]] south of Dalry. ...In 1532, John Lynn "for a sum of money to him paid, sold" to Thomas Boyd "forty-shilling land of the old extent of Lyn".,<ref name="Paul">Paul, James Balfo
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  • Around 1238, not even forty years after the building of the Church, the Welsh Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwer ...uld have been occupied by several hundred men-at-arms and many archers and foot soldiers enlisted in the King's cause.
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  • ...City of Dan are accepted as postal addresses, situated respectively at the foot of Dumps Hill and Leicester Road. Over the years, there have been many cont ...th century. The church today is mainly of the 14th century, with only the south doorway seeming to go back to the 13th century.<ref>Pevsner, Nikolaus: Leic
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