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  • ...nd the [[Highlands]]. It is a triangular [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] at the north-eastern tip of [[Great Britain]], bounded to the north and t ...nnet Head, while nearby John o' Groats at the north-easterly corner of the shire and of Great Britain is the end of the traditional measure of the length of
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  • ...nties of the United Kingdom|shire]] commanding the mountains of the [[Lake District]] to the coast, stretching along the coast of the [[Solway Firth]] and the ...hese two counties being dominated by the high, harsh mountains of the Lake District, an area of spectacular natural beauty. Cumberland is a popular holiday de
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  • |name=Inverness-shire |map image=Inverness-shire - British Isles.svg
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  • ...west and [[Banffshire]] to the east. To the south inland lies [[Inverness-shire]]. The [[county town]] is [[Elgin]], which has also given the county its a ...locally situate in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire interposes itself between coast Moray and its larger detached portion.
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  • ...ire]], and to the south [[Stirlingshire]], [[Clackmannanshire]], [[Kinross-shire]] and [[Fife]]. ...hire south of the main body, bounded by [[Clackmannanshire]] and [[Fife]]. Three other detached parts exist, one in the vicinity of [[Kippen]] in Stirlingsh
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  • |name=Ross-shire |map image=Ross-shire Brit Isles Sect 2.svg
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  • The '''County of Stafford''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the Midlands. It borders [[Cheshire]] to the north, [[Shropshire]] to ...al hills. Wild moorlands cover the far north, rising high into the [[Peak District]], and in the south is found [[Cannock Chase]] an area of natural beauty, f
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  • ...West Lothian''' or '''Linlithgow''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the south bank and at the head of the [[Firth of Forth]]. Its [[county Just three counties bound West Lothian; [[Midlothian]] to the east, [[Lanarkshire]] to
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  • ...County of Westmorland''' is a mountainous [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]], with some of the grandest scenery of the land. It is bounded to the nor ...tern neighbour famous. The western half of the county is within the [[Lake District]] National Park.
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  • The '''County of Wigtown''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-western corner of [[Scotland]]. Wigtownshire is also known a ...int in [[Scotland]], the [[Mull of Galloway]]. In its narrow confines the shire contains a variety of landscape, such as the [[Machars]] in the south and t
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  • ...otherwise '''King's County''' is a [[Counties of the Republic of Ireland|shire]] in the province of [[Leinster]] in the Republic of Ireland. The populatio The county has three detached parts locally situate in [[County Kildare]]:
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  • The Duddon rises 1,289 feet above sea level near the [[Three shire stone]] at the top of the [[Wrynose Pass]] which marks the point where [[Cumberla ...e east. The dale is not so frequented by visitors as the rest of the Lake District and remains a calmer reminder of earlier days.
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  • |LG district=Cardiff ...c limestone rock of the Vale of Glamorgan, including the very rare "Sutton Stone", a conglomerate of lias limestone and carboniferous limestone.<ref>{{cite
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  • |LG district=Allerdale Cockermouth stands outside the [[Lake District]] but on its northwest fringe. Much of the architectural core of the town r
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  • ...e border between Lancashire and Westmorland and Cumberland in turn and the Three Shires Point is on the pass, marked with a bold pillar inscribed "Lancashir ...this dale to the Three Shires Stone, which is on the watershed. Past the stone, the pass follows the upper stream of the [[River Duddon]] down until the d
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  • |range=Lake District Southern Fells ...above [[Langdale]]. It is accounted one of the Southern Fells of the Lake District.
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  • {{#vardefine:shire|County Armagh}} .... The path offers access to both the cairns on top of the mountain and the lake, while the Courtyard Centre offers refreshments and facilities.
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  • ...ved out of the rock by Bronze Age men with no more than antlers, bones and stone hammers, great numbers of which have been found in excavations, which conti ...This is the case in the "Plan of the Bay & Harbour of Conway in Caernarvon Shire" by Lewis Morris and published in 1748, which map boldly shows the name "CR
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  • ...e]]. The [[County top|highest point]] of [[Staffordshire]] is in the Peak District on the Derbyshire border, though it is conventional to assign all beyond th ...ews/mediacentrefacts |title=Media Centre Facts and Figures |publisher=Peak District National Park Authority |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
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  • ...River Carron]]' is a name borne by rivers from [[Dumfriesshire]] to [[Ross-shire]]. The Stirlingshire river though is the one which has spread the name wid ...rove road from [[Kilsyth]] to [[Stirling]]. This bridge, with its two span stone arches, looks larger than it needs to be because the river was much larger
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  • ...Moffat Hills close by, having been introduced as fry from [[Bassenthwaite Lake]] in [[Cumberland]], in 1997 and 1999, since when the Bassenthwaite vendace ...nt reads, "In Memory of Joe Graham for many years huntsman of the Dumfries Shire fox hounds who died in 1893 at the age of 80 and now he has gone far far aw
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  • ...ee Shires Stone - geograph.org.uk - 919622.jpg|thumb|right|The Three Shire Stone.]] ...r]], [[Cumberland]] and [[Westmorland]] meet. The point lies in the [[Lake District]] at the summit of [[Wrynose Pass]]; latitude 54°25' North, longitude 3°7
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  • [[File:The King's Men stone circle, Rollright Stones.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Stones in the King's Men cir The '''Rollright Stones''' are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments across the border of [[Oxford
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  • [[File:Castlerigg.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Castlerigg Stone Circle]] [[File:Castlerigg Stone Circle.JPG|right|thumb|220px|The Stone Circle close to]]
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  • '''Little Langdale''' is a valley in [[Westmorland]], and within the [[Lake District]], watered by the upper reaches of the [[River Brathay]], running down to [ ...e [[River Brathay]] in 3 spans supported by a large mid-stream boulder and stone causeways is a 16th-century,<ref name=NTblog>[http://countryside-catchup.bl
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  • ...er on the border of [[Lancashire]] with [[Westmorland]], within the [[Lake District]]. Its name comes from Old Norse and means ''broad river''. ...Brathay rises at a point 1,289 feet above sea level near the [[Three shire stone]], where [[Cumberland]], [[Lancashire]] and [[Westmorland]] meet at the hig
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  • |range=Lake District Southern Fells '''Pike o' Blisco''', or '''Pike of Blisco''', is a mountain in the [[Lake District]] on the border of [[Cumberland]] with [[Westmorland]]. Located between the
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  • |LG district=North Dorset ...r, Egbert of Wessex, was said to have placed the stone there to settle the shire boundaries.<ref>{{cite book |title=Curiosities of Somerset |last=Leete-Hodg
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  • *Three Locks Golf Club - [[Milton Keynes]] *Nefyn & District Golf Club - [[Pwllheli]]
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  • ...ad’:<ref>{{NHLE|1004876|Goathland Roman Road}}</ref> this is a length of stone course just over a mile long. There is a postulated extension of this stru The stone flags are seated on a cambered base of mixed gravel, clay and either rubble
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  • |LG district=Horsham ...e to the north-west of Ewhurst Manor|grade=@}}</ref> and nearby artificial lake and farmstead.
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