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  • ...ands 25 miles west of [[Dorchester]] and 25 miles east of [[Exeter]]. The Devon border is at the edge of the town, just a third of a mile west of the harbo ..."UNESCO">[http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1029 Dorset and East Devon Coast] – UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2001</ref> The coastal exposures a
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  • ...e tidal reaches of the [[River Tamar]] and [[River Tavy]], which meet just south of [[Bere Ferrers]]. ...ff by the unbridged rivers, the peninsula is a place apart, on the edge of Devon with Cornwall across the Tamar, the two rivers broad with water or at low w
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  • |county=Devon ...or most of its existence, one of the Three Towns; Devonport, [[Stonehouse, Devon|Stonehouse]] and [[Plymouth]], which were eventually joined together as Ply
    6 KB (948 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2016
  • |county=Devon ...was a village that is now a dense suburb in the north of [[Plymouth]] in [[Devon]].
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  • ...mbe.arp.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The path on the cliffs at Ilfracombe, Devon]] ...all]] to [[Land's End]] and then on round the south coasts of Cornwall and Devon then [[Dorset]] to finish at [[Poole Harbour]]. It picks its way amongst s
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  • ...cove on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast. The village is seven miles south-southwest of [[Bude]] and four miles north-northeast of [[Boscastle]], whos ...lassified as southern Britain's highest sheer-drop cliff (Great Hangman in Devon has a cliff face of 820 feet.<ref>Richards, Mark (1974) Walking the North C
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  • ...uary of the [[River Stour, Essex|River Stour]], which divides Essex to the south from [[Suffolk]] to the north, it opens on to the [[North Sea]]. ...rthwest. [[Colchester]] is to the southwest and [[Clacton-on-Sea]] to the south. Harwich is considered the northernmost coastal town within Essex.
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=Mid Devon
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  • |county=Devon |LG district=West Devon
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  • '''Torbay''' or '''Tor Bay''' is a wide bay in the east coast of [[Devon]], on the [[English Channel]], and also the name given collectively to the ...rbour, bounded by headlands; Hopes Nose at the north and Berry Head in the south, where Brixham stands.
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  • ...theroe]] to the west, [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]] and [[Burnley]] to the south, and its fellow West Riding town [[Keighley]] to the east. ...e [[United Kingdom]] without repeating any letters. [[Buckfastleigh]] in [[Devon]], [[Buslingthorpe, Yorkshire|Buslingthorpe]] in the West Riding and [[Busl
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  • ...ts - Newmilns lies to the north of the river, whilst Greenholm lies to the south. The river also divides the parishes of [[Loudoun]] and [[Galston]], which ...last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scot
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  • |LG district=South Somerset ...thern [[Somerset]], five miles north-west of [[Wincanton]] and eight miles south of [[Shepton Mallet]], in the [[Catsash Hundred]].
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  • '''Dulverton''' is a small town in [[Somerset]], near the border with [[Devon]]. The town had a recorded population of 1,486 in 2001. Dulverton is a po ...ch provides an example of unimproved mire of a type which is restricted to south-west England and Wales and which has been significantly reduced in extent i
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  • ...west of the county town of [[Taunton]] and 12 miles from the border with [[Devon]]. [[Exmoor]] lies at its back, filling this western part of Somerset, its ...1874 and closed in 1971 but has since been reopened as the [[West Somerset Railway]].
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  • ...the border with [[Devon]] (which runs along the [[Blackdown Hills]] to the south of the town) and more prosaically by the [[M5 motorway]]. ...deard]] to Bishop Asser in exchange for the monastery of [[Plympton]] in [[Devon]].<ref name="townhist">{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtontowncouncil.co.u
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  • ...lude the Rivers [[River Tone|Tone]], [[River Isle|Isle]], and [[River Yeo (South Somerset)|Yeo]], and the [[River Cary]] by way of the [[King's Sedgemoor Dr ...vans suggests that "it was the name which the Welsh people of Somerset and Devon gave to that river because it was at one time the dividing line between the
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  • ...rth, [[Redbridge, Essex|Redbridge]] to the east and [[Forest Gate]] to the south. Wanstead is one of the greener towns in the area, containing the Wanstead ...of 18th-century Essex rural festivals; the Galmpton Gooseberry Pie Fair in Devon is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were
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  • ...ilway Hotel and then the Great Southern Hotel, built by the Great Southern Railway Company in 1845.<ref name="Hotel Meyrick Website">{{cite web|url=http://www The Spanish Arch, in the south-west of the city, was built in the 1580s as an extension to the city walls,
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  • ...rhomboidal or lozenge shape on the map with the acute angles to north and south. ...has river valleys along its boundaries to north east ([[Clydesdale]]) and south-west ([[Nithsdale]]) which carry the two largest arterial routes northwards
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