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• Skiddaw
  ...ge once spoken hereabout, from ''sgwïðow'' meaning "shoulders" (like the Welsh ''sgwyddau'') from the shape of the mountain. Another proposed root is fro ...Lake. The eastern side of Skiddaw drains into Skiddaw Forest, much of the water reaching Candleseaves Bog. This marsh is the source of both the Dash Beck f
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• Nottingham
  ...ments/1105/TBTWelsh.pdf |title=Adobe PDF – Travelling by Train Guide – Welsh |format=PDF |date=|accessdate=2010-07-13}}</ref> The name of the city is fr *The National Water Sports Centre is based at Holme Pierrepont
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• Tenby
  |welsh=Dinbych-y-Pysgod The town's name derives from the Welsh language, in which the town is known as ''Dinbych-y-Pysgod'', meaning ''lit
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• Shrewsbury
  ...if grown from its original historic heart and trespassing over that broad water. Shrewsbury is the second largest town in the county, after [[Telford]]. In Welsh, the town's name is ''Amwythig'', meaning "scrubland fort"; a translation o
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• River Avon
  ...erives from the Old Welsh ''avon'' meaning simply "river", which in Modern Welsh is written "Afon". An early Brythonic Celtic origin of the word and the nam **[[Avon Water, Hampshire]]
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• Bath
  ...ough: in the centre of the city is the Roman Bath built on the gushing hot water springs which are its origin and that of its name. ...uncovered and restored, still receives though it ancient channels, the hot water of the spring and forms a centre-piece of the town. The entire structure a
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• Glastonbury
  ...ewers,<ref name=swdt>[http://www.somerset-waterways.org/somerset-waterways-water.html Somerset Waterways Development Trust]</ref> for use as a drainage ditc ...re Glastonbury is identified with the legendary island of Avalon. An early Welsh poem links Arthur to the Tor in an account of a confrontation between Arthu
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• River Taw
  ...res the large tidal ranges of the [[Bristol Channel]] and daily changes of water depth of 20 feet are common near its mouth. This effect can also be seen in ...between Bristol and Lands End, mainly as it was a handy landing point for Welsh coal shipped across the Bristol Channel which could be distributed around t
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• Cheddar Gorge
  ...http://www.bristolwater.co.uk/leisure/cheddar-info.asp | publisher=Bristol Water | title=Cheddar Reservoir Introduction | accessdate=2008-09-10}}</ref> By way of a 54-inch diameter pipe that takes water just upstream of the Rotary Club Sensory Garden, a public park in the gorge
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• Ochil Hills
  The name "Ochil" is from a Celtic word root comparable to the Welsh ''uchel'' meaning 'high'. ...]] (the Hillfoots Villages) grew up in the shadow of the Ochils to tap the water power. Some of the mills are open today as museums.
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• River Dee
  ...ers of the Dee pass from one end of the lake to the other unmixed with the water of the lake itself and remarkably a hydrographic survey was one made to tes ...nd during the summer months long stretches of the river bed run dry as the water disappears underground. A significant part of this lost flow re-emerges in
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• Salisbury
  ...ows to the south coast and into the sea at [[Christchurch]], Hampshire. Water meadows wet from the five rivers and their manifold channels are spread int ...e is derived from the British original; the English ''burg'' replacing the Welsh ''dun'', and this was corrupted in the Middle Ages to "Salisbury". In the
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• River Avon, Hampshire
  The name "Avon" is from Old Welsh, and simply means "River"; the modern Welsh for river is ''afon'', pronounced "av-on". ...-million pound project designed to benefit the habitats of species such as Water-crowfoot, Atlantic salmon, Brook lamprey, Sea lamprey, bullhead, Desmoulin'
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• Betws-y-Coed
  ...'' or ''Bettws'' for "prayer-house" is generally thought to have come into Welsh from the Old English ''bed-hus'', which is to say "prayer-house" or "orator ...si reservoir nearby is popular with walkers and anglers, and also provides water for the village.
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• Abergwyngregyn
  Abergwyngregyn was one of ten sites chosen for the Welsh Cultural Heritage Initiative in 2009.<ref>Ten 'iconic' sites win £2m cash The word Mŵd in early Welsh means 'vault' or 'chamber', and there is no evidence that there was ever a
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• Aberdaron
  ...years. The main produce locally was felt, produced by soaking the cloth in water and beating it with large wooden paddles until the wool formed a thick mat ...name="topographical"/> Limestone was also imported and offloaded into the water at high tide, then collected from the beach when the tide went out. Lime wa
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• Criccieth
  |welsh=Cricieth ...prisonment of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn in the 'castle of ''Cruceith''' (Middle Welsh orthography: ''Kastell Krukeith'').<ref>Thomas Jones (ed.), Brut y Tywysogy
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• Dolgarrog
  [[File:Water Pipelines 2 - geograph.org.uk - 252125.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Pipelines]] The aluminium works (or "smelter") was originally planned in 1895. Water from reservoirs in the Snowdonia Mountains would provide the hydro-electric
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• Llanberis
  ...yn Padarn]] in [[Snowdonia]]. It takes its name from Saint Peris, an early Welsh saint.<ref>Parker, Mike; Whitfield, Paul (2003). ''The Rough Guide To Wales ...beris was 1,954. The census also revealed that 81% of the population speak Welsh fluently, with all of those aged 10–15 able to speak the language.
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• Llandygai
  ...ast syllable and not the last-but-one, which would be the usual pattern in Welsh. The name may also be spelled ''Llandegai''. All forms are in use today tho ...ch are kept at the church.<ref name="Breverton">T D Breverton, The Book of Welsh Saints (Cyhoeddiadau Glyndŵr, 2001)</ref>
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