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• Lough Erne
  ...n windy, navigation on, can be something of a challenge with waves of open-sea dimensions. ...ior to two extensive drainage schemes in the 1880s which dropped the water level by 5 feet.
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• Windermere
  ...ught among the high fells as it is, its surface is just 128 feet above sea level. Its maximum depth is 219 feet. ...ly surrounded by foothills of the Lake District which provide pleasant low-level walks; to the north and north-east are the higher fells of the central Lake
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• Sunderland
  ...County Durham]] standing at the mouth of the [[River Wear]] on the [[North Sea]] coast. ...ning parallel to the coast. On average, it is around 250 ft above sea level. Sunderland is divided by the River Wear which passes through the middle of
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• Tranent
  ...wns in East Lothian, and built on a gentle slope, about 300 feet above sea level.
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• Bridgwater
  Bridgwater stands, on the edge of the [[Somerset Levels]], in a level and well-wooded country, having to the north the [[Mendip Hills]] and on th ...ruary 2010 |format=|work=Somerset County Council }}</ref> The town is in a level and well-wooded area, on the edge of the [[Somerset Levels]]. To the north
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• Somerset Levels
  ...ccupy an area of about 160,000 acres. Much of the land is at or below sea level and once these lands were a great fen, flooded all year or by seasonal floo In the Roman period, sea salt was extracted and a string of settlements were set up along the Polden
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• Burntisland
  ...k of the Fife coastline; a volcanic plug, it rises 632&nbsp;feet above sea level. ...n the early 20th century, closing in 2002. Industries related to the North Sea oil industry remain important for the town.
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• Blaenau Ffestiniog
  ...the Ffestiniog Railway which runs from the town down the mountains to the sea. The town's population together with [[Llan Ffestiniog]] is some 5,000, but ...laenau Ffestiniog in the nineteenth century to bear the slates down to the sea for export.
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• Isle of Arran
  ...onnected to mainland Great Britain.<ref>Murray (1973) pp. 68-69.</ref> Sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting post-glacial coastlin ...100 feet long and up to 50 feet high, lies well above the present day sea level.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.virtual-geology.info/vft/2004-andy/Arran.ht
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• Isle of Bute
  ...ul sporting club on the island is Bute Shinty Club who play at the highest level of shinty (the Marine Harvest Premier League). In 2006 Bute won promotion t ..., a village towards the north of the island, is the centre for sailing and sea-fishing on the island. It has two boat yards and a marina for 200 vessels.
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• Great Cumbrae
  ...2.4 miles long by 1.4 miles wide, rising to a height of 417 feet above sea level at "The Glaidstone" - a large, naturally occurring rock perched on the high ...- where the island's highest waterfall, Horse Falls, plunges over the old sea cliffs.<br clear=all />
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• Newcastle upon Tyne
  ...'' in [[South Shields]]. Hadrian's Wall stretched 73 miles, from the North Sea to the Solway Firth. ...as built by Dorman Long of [[Middlesbrough]], and Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world.
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• Cardiff
  The foot of Cardiff is washed by the sea. The city centre lies above the seafront, but to the south Butetown stretc ...assic limestone cliffs. The Glamorgan coast is the only part of the Celtic Sea that has exposed Jurassic (blue lias) geology. This stretch of coast, which
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• Denshaw
  Denshaw stands about 990 feet above sea level, on elevated [[Pennine]] ground by the [[River Tame, Lancashire|River Tame]
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• Greenfield, Yorkshire
  ...that comprise Saddleworth. It is stands at about 1200&nbsp;feet above sea level and every year on Remembrance Sunday a service is held there.
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• Stroma
  ...is about 2½ miles long by a mile wide, rising to just 174 feet above sea level on Cairn Hill. ...ind the salt to keep the seas salty, and the noise of the whirlpool is the sea still roaring through it.<ref>[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/odin/odi
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• Oldham
  ...-00-095162-X}}</ref> (''Holm'' is a word in Old English too, but it means "sea"; somewhat unlikely as a name given as far inland as Oldham.) An alternati ...d economic activities of the human inhabitants. Located 700 feet above sea level with no major river or visible natural resources, Oldham had poor geographi
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• Land's End to John o' Groats
  ...but such a route passes over a series of stretches of water in the [[Irish Sea]].) ...http://benumber1.co.uk/lejog.htm Benumber1], an event that saw several top-level British athletes (mainly Olympians) completing the challenge. The event was
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• Great Britain
  |L=[[Holme Fen]], [[Huntingdonshire]]:<br>9 feet below sea-level ...the end of the last Ice Age, Doggerland became submerged beneath the North Sea, cutting off what was previously the British peninsula from the European ma
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• Portsmouth
  ...the end of threats to British supremacy at sea, but the war on land and at sea dragged on for ten years more and Portsmouth was busy with warships, troop ...w-lying: the majority of its surface area is only about ten feet above sea level. The highest natural point on Portsea Island is Kingston Cross at 21&nbsp;f
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