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• Orford Ness
  ...influence on its formation has been storm waves throwing shingle over the top of the beach crest, where it is protected from ordinary wave action.<ref na ...ined manner. In the event of a larger accident, the roofs were designed to collapse onto the building, sealing it with a lid of concrete.
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• Orford Castle
  ...with 20 knights being based there.<ref>Brown (2004), p.136.</ref> Upon the collapse of the rebellion, Henry ordered the permanent confiscation of Framlingham C ...installed.<ref>Hartshorne, p.61; White, p.516.</ref> Francis furnished the top of the keep for use as an apartment by guests.<ref name=WhiteP516>White, p.
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• Silbury Hill
  ...kinson 1974:128) to deposit and shape 325,000 cu. yds of earth and fill on top of a natural hill. Euan W Mackie asserts that no simple late Neolithic trib ...one another.<ref>Atkinson 1974 p. 128</ref> There are indications that the top originally had a rounded profile, but this was flattened in the Middle Ages
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• Batley
  .... There are several chain shops, including Boots the Chemist and until its collapse, a Woolworth's store which lies empty. ...n to the area's employment and economic status. Redbrick Mill, houses many top end furniture retailers such as Heal's and Multi York and local textile man
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• Rhondda Valley
  ...182"/> The trustees sank the Bute Merthyr Colliery in October 1851, at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in what would become [[Treherbert]]. The Bute Merthyr b ...ars, though there were expectations of a return to the pre-1939 industrial collapse after the end of the Second World War. Amongst miners if not mine owners, t
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• Shannon Cave
  ===Collapse and re-entry=== ...30&nbsp;metres to a {{convert|10|m|ft|0|x|adj=on}} upward pitch, from the top of which led {{convert|70|m|yd|0|x}} of crawling passage to a number of dee
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• Cuillin
  |[[Sgùrr Alasdair]] || Grade 2 scramble || North-east ridge from top of Great Stone Chute {| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 style="border-collapse: collapse; background:#f0f0f0;"
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• Kenilworth Castle
  ...ref name="Thompson, p.77; Pettifer, p.258"/> The tall Tudor windows at the top of the tower date from the 1570s.<ref>Morris 2010, p.8.</ref> ...y in the form of pitched battles.<ref>Pounds, p.249.</ref> With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, Queen Margaret used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the M
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• Florence Court
  ...illen]]. It is set in the foothills of [[Cuilcagh]] Mountain, the [[county top]]. The nearby village takes its name from the estate. ...ed on the floor above to quickly drain away and thereby preventing ceiling collapse. Two of these holes are still evident in the Dining Room today.
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• Roseberry Topping
  ...geological fault and possibly nearby alum and ironstone mining caused its collapse. The area immediately below the summit is still extensively pitted and scar ...”. "Topping" is a Yorkshire dialect derivation of Old English ''topp'', 'top (of a hill)'.<ref>A. H. Smith, ''English Place-Name Elements'', 2 vols, Eng
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• Dover Castle
  ...g it with massive brick vaults he was able to mount heavy artillery on the top. Twiss also constructed Canon's Gateway to link the defences of the castle ...as to create a complex of barracks tunnels about 15 metres below the cliff top and the first troops were accommodated in 1803. At the height of the Napole
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• Sissinghurst Castle
  ...astle stands solid and restored and provides vast panoramic views from the top over 450-acre estate and the wider Kentish countryside. After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: a
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• Raglan Castle
  ...een.<ref>Tribe, pp.6-7.</ref> The Royalist cause was now close to military collapse, and the Marquess started to send some valuables, including the oak panelli [[File:Raglan Castle tower and moat.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The view from the top of the Great Tower]]
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• University of Cambridge
  ...1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border:1px #aaa solid; border-collapse:collapse; text-align:left" class="sortable" ...ours after completing the mathematics Tripos are termed wranglers, and the top student among them is the Senior Wrangler The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
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• Rochester Castle
  ...wooden props supporting the tunnel dug beneath the keep were set alight to collapse the mine, bringing down one corner of the keep. Still the garrison held out ...ors, and another in the south-west corner went from the first floor to the top floor.<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1969|p=37}}</ref> The north-west corner tower con
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• Windsor Castle
  Windsor Castle's position on top of steep ground has meant that the castle's gardens are limited in scale.<r ...old royal residence. The initial wooden castle consisted of a keep on the top of a man-made motte, or mound, protected by a small bailey wall, occupying
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• St Vigeans
  The situation of the churhc on top of a prominent, steep-sided mound (presumably of glacial origin, though dou ...e western tower was also heightened and 'improved' by adding a castellated top and cap-house. The 18th century headstones in the kirkyard, some of which
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...pur, the outer fortification of the castle, which had been isolated by the collapse. The following day Grange emerged from the castle by a ladder after calling Edinburgh Castle is located at the top of the Royal Mile, at the west end of Edinburgh's [[Old Town, Edinburgh|Old
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• List of Munros
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• Monnow Bridge
  ...s first street lamp was erected by the town council. In the late 1920s the top portion was replaced with twin electric lamps. In the 1960s the lamp was re
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