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  • During the 18th century, water transport had been improved in the area by the Mersey and Irwell Navigation ...Runcorn Railway Bridge was opened across the Mersey, giving Runcorn direct rail links with [[Liverpool]] in [[Lancashire]] and with the rest of the country
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  • ...pecies, Henderson Island has 16, including the unique flightless Henderson rail (Nesophylax alter); Oeno 12; Ducie 13 and Pitcairn six. Of the birds breedi ...caught in shallow water, while Snapper, Big Eye and Cod are caught in deep water and Yellow Tail and Wahoo are caught by trolling. A range of minerals have
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  • ...cape it is a disaster.' That section of the road is known as "St Alkmund's Way". The newer buildings along Ford Street and St Alkmund's Way include the Friargate Studios, The Joseph Wright Centre (a campus of Derby
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  • ...of various kinds and many pubs. In 2002, Brownsover Fish Bar on Hollowell Way, Brownsover, was named as the best seller of Fish and Chips in the country. ...ugby. Rugby became an important railway junction, and the proliferation of rail yards and workshops attracted workers to the town. Rugby's population grew
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  • [[File:MandelaWayT34.jpg|thumb|[[Mandela Way T-34 Tank]]]] * Mandela Way T-34 Tank
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  • ...rossing of the town bridge. A 12-foot thick portion of the castle wall and water gate can still be seen on West Quay, and the remains of a wall of a buildin ...er]]. After 1827, it was also possible to transfer goods to [[Taunton]] by way of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Huntworth.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haw
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  • ...1 feet wide by 30 feet deep. The premises will be heated throughout by hot water coils, and provision has been made for lighting the house by electric light ...ly formed Transport for London agreed to revert most of the streets to two-way working, a project which was completed in late 2002.
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  • ...of [[Selkirkshire]] and [[Roxburghshire]]. The town stands on the [[Gala Water]] which in the vicinity forms the county border. Locally the name is freque ...]], just across the [[River Tweed]] from Galashiels. The "Sir Walter Scott Way", a long-distance path from [[Moffat]] to [[Cockburnspath]], passes through
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  • |name=Water Orton |picture caption=Farmland by Water Orton
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  • ...roximately 603 miles but such a route passes over a series of stretches of water in the [[Irish Sea]].) The one-way distance is similar to that of 875 miles London–Edinburgh–London, the l
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  • ...located on the Coryton Line where trains run between Coryton and Radyr by way of the city centre. ...s.<ref>[http://blog.stuartherbert.com/photography/category/merthyr-road/by-water/melingriffith-feeder/ Meligriffith Tin Works]</ref>
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  • ...ooded the town centre. Subsequent floods and extreme weather led the Welsh Water Authority to develop concrete flood defence walls along the banks of the Ri ...an and to the northern valleys. The Vale of Glamorgan link to [[Barry]] by way of [[Rhoose]] was re-instated in June 2005.
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  • Gloucester is a port, linked to the Severn Estuary by way of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal which runs from Gloucester's docks, a ...24 hours, and the entire city and its surrounding areas were without piped water for 17 days.
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  • ...] at the meeting of the [[River Test]] and [[River Itchen]]. Southampton Water provides a deep, broad, sheltered [[English Channel]] roadstead, which has ...rivers. The city lies at the northern tip of the Southampton Water, a deep water estuary, which is a ria formed at the end of the last Ice Age. Here, the ri
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  • ...h the outlying villages of [[Upton Grey]] and [[Mapledurwell]]. The Harrow Way is an ancient route that runs to the south of the town. [[File:Churchill Way, Basingstoke.jpg|thumb|right|Churchill Way running through the centre of the town centre]]
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  • ...d to form the Daer Reservoir) and the Potrail Water. The [[Southern Upland Way]] crosses both streams before they meet at Watermeetings ({{getmapecho|NS95 ...River Clyde there has been a significant issue of oxygen depletion in the water column.<ref>C.Michael Hogan. 2011. [http://www.eoearth.org/article/Irish_Se
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  • ...joined the River Medway at Maidstone; though a short river it provided the water to drive numerous watermills. The [[Loose Stream]], that rises at [[Langley Because of its situation and the availability of water power for the mills, Maidstone grew an industrial base, and became a nodal
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  • ...pact disk since 2007</ref> Dredging the harbour, and the construction of a rail route down to it, began almost immediately, and the town soon became the SE ...& Hammer, has its British headquarters in the town. Silver Spring Mineral Water Company Limited, currently the largest independently-owned soft drinks manu
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  • The Pennines are an important water catchment area with numerous reservoirs in the headwaters of the major rive ...tionaltrail.co.uk/PennineWay/text.asp?PageId=34|title=Trail stats, Pennine Way|accessdate=2007-08-03|work=National Trails Homepage|publisher=The Countrysi
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  • ...mainly the result of its geography; a combination of river, streams, fresh water springs and varied soils, together with a temperate climate, attracted earl ...nment of the ridges and valleys has influenced the development of road and rail communications. The most prominent geological feature is the chalk of the [
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