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• River Thames
  ...from its source to its mouth for thousands of years, providing habitation, water power, food and drink. It has also acted as a major highway through the Por ...997: 147.</ref> recorded in Latin as ''Tamesis'' and underlying the modern Welsh name for it: ''Tafwys''.
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• Southampton
  ...] 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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• Tintern
  |welsh=Tyndyrn ...ern Village Website] - History</ref> The name Tintern may derive from the Welsh ''din deyrn'', meaning "rocks of the king".<ref name=davies>E. T. Davies, '
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• Llandrindod Wells
  |welsh=Llandrindod ...es originally displayed in the garage.<ref>[http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/ Welsh National Cycle Museum]</ref>
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• Rhayader
  |welsh=Rhaeadr Gwy The name "Rhayader" is from the Welsh "Rhaeadr Gwy", meaning Waterfall on the [[River Wye|Wye]]. Little remains o
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• Coatbridge
  ...is either derived from the Middle English "cote" (cottage) or from the Old Welsh "coed" meaning "wood".<ref name="Frost's Scottish Gazette">{{cite web|url=h ...n the Loch at the present day Drumpellier Country Park. Dependent upon the water level in the loch, the remains can still be seen today.<ref>''Coatbridge (I
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• Pennines
  The Pennines are an important water catchment area with numerous reservoirs in the headwaters of the major rive ...frequently, and asserts that their name is from Gaulish, equivalent to the Welsh ''pen'' for mountain peak, and which gives us the names of several of the f
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• Tywyn
  The name is from the Welsh language, with ''tywyn'' meaning "beach", "seashore" or "sand-dune". Extens ...wyn-on-Sea''. At the time of the 2001 census, 40.5% of the population were Welsh-speakers.
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• Bala Lake
  Bala Lake is the largest natural body of water in Wales (or rather it was: its level is altered by the hand of man, raised ...or else perhaps 'an isthmus between two lakes or areas of wet ground'. The Welsh name includes the personal name 'Tegid'. An older now redundant English nam
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• Snowdon
  |welsh=Yr Wyddfa ...es from Arthurian legend, the mountain is linked to a legendary ''afanc'' (water monster) and the ''Tylwyth Teg'' (fairies).
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• Yorkshire Dales
  ...s on the landscape. In the Dales was found the Kingdom of Elmet; the last Welsh kingdom so far east. ...e steep lanes, the fell slope and the verdant valley rushing with clearest water from an ardent beck.
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• Milford Haven
  |welsh=Aberdaugleddau ...df?lang=en One Wales: Connecting the Nation - The Wales Transport Strategy Welsh Assembly Government, April 2008, page 29] Retrieved 17 January 2010</ref> a
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• Crossings of the River Severn
  ...ry access, as nearby Cwm Ricket Bridge has a 12.5T weight limit. With high water, it becomes a ford. ...hed in 1795 and replaced by the Welsh Bridge. It was also known as the Old Welsh Bridge.
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• River Severn
  ...[Apperley]], Gloucestershire, the Severn is the greatest river in terms of water flow in the United Kingdom. The river is known in Welsh as the ''Hafren''. The Romans called it ''Sabrina'', and in Old English it
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• British Isles
  ...eagh]] in the centre of [[Northern Ireland]] is the largest body of inland water, covering 151 square miles. ...ative wild life, with weasels, polecats, wildcats, most shrews, moles, the water voles, roe deer and common toads also being absent in Ireland. This pattern
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• Leicester
  ...the city of Kaerleir ('Leir's chester'). Today the name of the city in the Welsh language is Caerlŷr. Leir was supposedly buried by Queen Cordelia in a cha ...y and the acceptance that municipal organisations had a responsibility for water supply, drainage and sanitation.
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• Llanishen, Cardiff
  |welsh=Llanisien The village name is from the Welsh Llanisien, meaning "Church of Isien" (St Isan).
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• Leatherhead
  ...me cognate to ''Llwyd-rhyd'', proposed to mean "grey ford" (in defiance of Welsh word-order.<ref>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/rc_britons.pd ...group is based next to Fetcham Mill Pond, a popular local walking spot and water source near the Leatherhead Leisure Centre.
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• Isle of Man
  ...ish mythology known as Manannán mac Lir to the Irish and Manawydan to the Welsh.<ref> ...(Paulus Orosius, 416), and ''Eubonia'' or ''Eumonia'' by Irish writers. In Welsh records it is ''Manaw'', and in the Icelandic sagas it is ''Mön''.<ref>
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• King's Lynn
  ...med a broad mere here as it prepared to enter [[the Wash]], suggesting the Welsh word ''Llyn'', meaning lake. ...reated, although many could not afford to be connected: elm pipes carried water under the streets. Like all towns at that time King's Lynn suffered from o
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