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• Rock of Gibraltar
  ...sand-bar. The Rock stands 1,398 feet high at its highest summit, O'Hara's Battery. It stands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, commandin ...e Notch, a natural projection from the North face. The plan was to mount a battery there. There was no intention at first of making embrasures in this tunnel,
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• Penzance
  ...ding to the harbour and docks then at the Chimney Rocks it swings round as Battery Road becomes the Western Promenade below which is the beach. [[File:Jubilee pool battery rocks penzance.jpg|thumb|left|Jubilee Pool, Penzance]]
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• Redruth
  [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] rises above the town. It is a green hill with historical interest, a popular climb from Redruth and from Camborne up ...oded valley, with [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] on one side and Bullers Hill on the other. The presence of shallow lodes of tin and copper lying east to
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• Ascension Island
  ...arine. The guns scored no hits but the U-boat submerged and retreated. The battery remains largely intact to this day, together with its guns, BL 5.5 inch Mar # [[Cat Hill, Ascension Island|Cat Hill]] (the US base)
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• Isle of Wight
  ...ing from Early Cretaceous times (around 127 million years ago) to the middle of the Palaeogene (around 30 million years ago). All the rocks found o ===Early Middle Ages===
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• Cobham, Surrey
  ...side of the A3 and Geoff Uren prepared the BMW team saloon cars and Graham Hill's Jägermeister sponsored Formula 2 car. ...larger complex. It stands on the site of earlier mills dating back to the Middle Ages. The mill was in use until 1928 when it became uneconomical to continu
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• Milford Haven
  ...of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. ...l and power industries. This industry reached its zenith in the 1970s when Middle Eastern supply difficulties forced oil transport to use ocean routes and Ve
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• Isles of Scilly
  [[File:Deer Park Wall and Cottage, South Hill, Samson - geograph.org.uk - 929094.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Samson]] ===Later Middle Ages===
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• Gugh
  |highest point=Kittern Hill at 112 feet ...n a mile long and half of that in width, and at its highest point, Kittern Hill, it reaches 112 feet. Nevertheless, this small island is fascinating for t
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• Shapinsay
  |highest height=Ward Hill, 210 feet ...nd soon spread throughout the Orkney Islands.<ref name=Newhistory/> By the middle of the century, Shapinsay had 50 herring boats.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fenton
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• River Arun
  ...e River Ockle), whose source is the heights of [[Leith Hill]] and Holmbury Hill in Surrey. In the Middle Ages the river was known as the Tarrant,<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac
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• Brixham
  ...ith only a marshy lane to connect them. Cowtown was the area on top of the hill where the farmers lived, while a mile away in the harbour was Fishtown, whe ...dants of soldiers in that army. A road leading from the harbour up a steep hill to where the Dutch made their camp, is still called Overgang, meaning 'pass
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• St Agnes, Cornwall
  ...rch and St Agnes Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 68769.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Town Hill to the church and St Agnes Hotel]]
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• Minehead
  .... [[Exmoor]] lies at its back, filling this western part of Somerset, its hill rising up from the coast here. ...eve'' and ''-hewed'' does appear however to be the Old English ''heafod'' (Middle English ''heved'') meaning "head".
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• Greenisland
  It is a semi-rural community located at the foot of Carn Hill, on which stands the Knockagh Monument, a war memorial for those from Count ...Primary School. The village in its entirety stretches from the foot of the hill to the shore of [[Belfast Lough]].
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• Rock Gun Battery
  |name=Rock Gun Battery |type=Artillery Battery
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...t, pp.268–270</ref> This could, however, refer to another of the tribe's hill forts in the area. The ''Orygynale Cronykil'' of Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 ...e excavation in the 1990s pointed to the probable existence of an enclosed hill fort on the rock, although only the fringes of the site were excavated. Hou
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• Burghfield
  ...– and several small hamlets, including [[Burghfield Bridge]], Burghfield Hill, [[Pingewood]], Trash Green, Whitehouse Green and [[Sheffield Bottom]]. ...d its name is believed to be from the Old English ''beorg feld'', meaning "Hill Field".
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• Dunbar Castle
  During the Early Middle Ages, Dunbar Castle was held by an Ealdorman owing homage to the King of th ...some places up to two hundred and ten feet from north to south. The South Battery, which Grose supposes to have been the citadel or keep, is situated on a de
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• Chew Magna
  |picture caption=Chew Magna from Knowle Hill ...ortance back to Anglo-Saxon times. It was a thriving woollen centre in the Middle Ages - in 1086 it was recoded as having 108 households and rendering £46 a
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• Dudley Canal
  ...yards would be required at Lapal, and a shorter one of 537 yards at Gosty Hill. Another short tunnel was to be built at Halesowen, but became a cutting an ...made into a cutting, and the Delph Flight of nine locks were rebuilt, the middle seven being replaced by six new locks. A loop to the south of the Netherton
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• Stirling Castle
  ...historically and architecturally, in Britain. The castle sits atop Castle Hill guarding what was for many centuries the lowest crossing on the [[River For ...ive crag, and it forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. The hill is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive
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• Scarborough Castle
  ...settlement and chapel, the 12th-century enclosure castle and 18th-century battery, is a scheduled monument of national importance.<ref name="EH">{{NHLE|10113 ...flicts, as kings fought with rival barons, faced rebellion and the unquiet Middle Ages, though the union of England with Scotland and the conclusion of civil
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• Brean Down Fort
  ...prominent position. The earliest recorded settlement is from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. The earliest record settlement is from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. It is now on an exposed cliff as the land has been eroded by th
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• Georgetown, Ascension Island
  ...e some defence. This battery became known as Fort Cockburn (renamed in the middle of the century Fort Thornton).<ref name=heritage-amble /> ...) and a third, Fort Bedford, on the hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill. Fort Bedford, which dates from 1903, still has some Victorian cannons, as
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• Tobermore
  ...n the descending slope of [[Slieve Gallion]]. Prominent hills are: Calmore Hill (in Calmore), 268 ft; and Fortwilliam (in Tobermore), 200 ft high.<ref name ===Fortwilliam Hill===
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• McCaig's Tower
  ...of which town it is a prominent landmark. The tower is perched on Battery Hill, at the edge of the cliff overlooking the town and its harbour ...eteenth century, the hilltop overlooking Oban was the site of an artillery battery. In the 1890s, John Stuart McCaig bought the land and began clearing the m
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• Portland Harbour
  ...www.victorianforts.co.uk/pdf/datasheets/verneha.pdf|title=Verne High Angle Battery|publisher=Victorian Forts|accessdate=19 March 2016}}</ref> ...batteries were established around Portland. The Verne Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery is a remaining example of this.
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• Charles V Wall
  ...arles V's Wall, and massacred the guard at [[Middle Hill, Gibraltar|Middle Hill]], but were attacked by a party of grenadiers and were all either killed or ...e]] near the foot of the upper section of the wall at [[Prince Ferdinand's Battery]]. It leads through a region of esparto grass, white asparagus, common asph
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• Great Gibraltar Sand Dune
  ...ll Battery, Gibraltar|Signal House]], and the [[Middle Hill Battery|Middle-hill Guards]]. These parts were formerly accessible, which made it necessary to
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• Gibraltar Harbour
  ...n in 1618 during the Spanish period, and its extension, the Devil's Tongue Battery, which was constructed between 1779 and 1783,<ref name=encyclopedia/> to cr ....edu|publisher=Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|year=2011}}</ref> and measures 550 yards in length. The northern section of
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• Dalkey Island
  |picture=Dalkey Island and Sorrento Terrace viewed from Dalkey Hill.jpg |picture caption=Dalkey Island from Killiney Hill
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• Tennyson Trail
  ...of Wight]]. [[Hampshire]]’s southern island, from [[Carisbrooke]] in the middle of the island to a point overlooking [[The Needles]] in the west. The name ...on Trail is present on Nodgham Lane. After this, the trail follows a steep hill in a south-westerly direction along an ancient road with banks on each side
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