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  • ...which the parish extends for about three miles, and on the north by the [[River Bladnoch]]. ...Crown Confirmation of Feu Charter of 21 Dec 1560 by James Doddis prior, Allan Peter, Rolland Tailzeor, John Gibson and Thomas Wryt friars predicatores of
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  • [[File:Dunblaneallanwater.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Allan Water at Dunblane]] ..., July 1st 2013.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The summertime river above Bridge of Allan]]
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  • ...rger river, but runs parallel to it a little to the south and enters the [[River Forth]] south of [[Clackmannan]], downstream of the Devon's mouth. ...Fife]], with the gathering of three small streams in branch formation. The river flows westwards through Balgonar, north of [[Saline, Fife|Saline]], and the
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  • ...kwater]] and Moy on the west; the two are joined by Charlemont Bridge. The river is also the boundary between the two counties of Tyrone and [[County Armagh ...Railways since 1916 |location=London |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing|Ian Allan]] |isbn=0 7110 0282 7 |pages=155, 209}}</ref>
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  • ..."Abernethy" is derived from the local River Nethy ("aber" is Pictish for a river mouth or junction). The name Kincardine is of mixed Gaelic and Pictish ori ...re well known as [[Nethy Bridge]] was located around the confluence of the River Nethy and the Duack Burn; its earlier growth was mostly upriver along the b
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  • ...irst steam locomotive, Number 24, a replica of a locomotive from the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine in the United States. The locomotive has * Butcher, Alan C. (ed); ''Railways Restored 2005''. Ian Allan Publishing Co, Hersham, Surrey, 2005. ISBN 0-7110-3053-7
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  • ...òn'', and the derivation of ''Morrone'' is a complex question. Watson and Allan come down on the side of ''Mór Bheinn''.<ref name="test8">"The Place Names ...both flowing into the Clunie Water to join the [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|River Dee]] just north of Braemar. The northern and western slopes are drained by
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  • ...st facing side of the Moffat hills is bounded by the [[River Annan]] and [[River Tweed]], and the source of both these rivers (which are little more than a Westward beyond the valley of the River Annan ([[Annandale]]) lies the main west coast corridor running northwards
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  • ...e Robert Burns' "Sweet Afton" still flows gently, until it merges into the River Nith. Wallace seems to have known the surrounding area very well indeed; in ...f 1296, we find "Alan Wallace, crown tenant in Ayrshire".<ref>Ragman Roll. Allan Wallace. Robert the Bruce. http://archive.org/stream/instrumentapublica00th
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  • ...of ‘’[[Trimontium]]’’ at the foot of the hill on the bank of the [[River Tweed]]; its name means “Three Hills”. In association with the fort the * AQA A2 Geography - Amanda Barker, David Redfern, Malcom Skinner, Phillip Allan Updates 2008
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  • ...riginal primary purpose of the line was to carry timber and ore from the [[River Rheidol|Rheidol Valley]] to the sea and the main-line railway at Aberystwyt |''over [[River Rheidol]]'' || || ||
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  • |picture caption=''River Mite'' at Dalegarth Station [[File:R&ER River Esk on turntable.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The ''River Esk'' on the turntable at Ravenglass]]
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  • '''Haddon Hall''' is a country house on the [[River Wye, Derbyshire|River Wye]] at [[Bakewell]] in [[Derbyshire]]. It is one of the seats of the Duk ...than legend) in ''The King of the Peak – A Derbyshire Tale'', written by Allan Cunningham in 1822 and published in the monthly ''London Magazine''. The s
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  • ...oast of Morar, on the sheltered if highly tidal bay formed by mouth of the River Morar. ...Loch Morar]]; the deepest freshwater loch in the [[British Isles]]. The [[River Morar]] flows out of the loch the short distance to the sea. The loch divi
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  • ...large mediæval castle sited on a high, steep bank, above a bend in the [[River Clyde]], in [[Lanarkshire]]. It stands between [[Bothwell]] and [[Uddingsto *{{citation |last1=Rutherford |first1=Allan |last2=Malcolm |first2=John |contribution='That stalwart toure': Bothwell C
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  • ...d in the village of [[Tintern]] in [[Monmouthshire]], on the bank of the [[River Wye]] which forms the border between Monmouthshire and [[Gloucestershire]]. ...s poem cited above, written in 1798. The site was best approached from the river until 1822, when a new turnpike road, now the A466, was opened through the
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  • ...however, were concerned about the ability to set foundations in the silty river bottom, as borings had gone as deep as 231 ft into the mud without finding ...tide on New Year's Day 1885 caused the caisson to sink into the mud of the river bed and adopt a slight tilt.<ref name=w26>{{harvnb|Westhofen|1890|p=26}}</r
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  • ...t=Tuddenham |first=E. |title=Railway World |date=March 1965 |publisher=Ian Allan |page=87}}</ref> Dereham became an intermediate station for Norwich to King The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust owned trackbed starts in the [[River Wensum|Wensum valley]] taking a roughly southerly direction. Track is miss
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  • ...or village, though it lies on the outskirts of the village of [[Bridge of Allan]]. ...hamlet of no more than 100 people, was included in Lecropt. As Bridge of Allan grew during the 19th century, the whole village was eventually brought unde
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  • ...ons. ISBN 0470998857</ref> and the name may be associated with the [[River Allan]] which flows about one mile to the south of the fort.<ref>Osbert Guy Stanh ...aimed that from Ardoch Roman Fort a subterranean passage ran out under the River Tay to the fort or 'Keir' on Grinnin Hill, and that this tunnel was said to
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