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  • ...il 2007 | accessdate=28 April 2007 | location=London | first=Amelia | last=Hill}}</ref> *[[Biggin Hill]]
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  • ...mer county town, [[Kincardine]], on the Devilly Burn below [[Strathfinella Hill]], in the Howe of the Mearns. Kincardine was a burgh with a Castle, but wh ...ve 1,500 feet. In the extreme north, on the confines of Aberdeenshire, the Hill of Fare, famous for its sheep walks, attains an altitude of 1,545 feet
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  • **[[Lowther Hill]] (2,377 feet) ...he division was made into three wards, [[Lower Ward|Lower]], [[Middle Ward|Middle]] and [[Upper Ward|Upper]], which persist to the present day.
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  • ...Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The highest point of the county is [[Bardon Hill]] at 912 feet. .... The local manufacturing industry, which began with hand knitting in the Middle Ages, and was fully industrialized by the end of the 19th century, survived
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  • ...hey also built Lincoln Castle which still stands proud over the city. The Middle Ages were a time in which Lincoln became one of the most important cities o *[[Hill Hundred]]
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  • The name Middlesex is from the Old English ''Middelseaxe'', which means ''Middle Saxons'' and refers to the tribal origin of its inhabitants. The earliest s ...of [[Wessex]] and South Saxons of [[Sussex]]. It is not known whether the Middle Saxons were so named from the earliest days or whether they took their name
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  • In the midst of Edinburgh is [[Arthur's Seat]]; a solitary hill, precipitous and natural, surrounded but untouched by cityscape. ...Law]] (1,898 feet), Carnethy (1,881 feet), West Cairn Hill and East Cairn Hill (at 1,844 feet and 1,839 feet respectively), and West Kip (1,806 feet). The
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  • ...above [[Abergavenny]], and meanders gently through the rolling farmland in middle of the shire, eventually coming to [[Caerleon]] of the county's historic he * [[Stow Hill]]
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  • ...ire, is [[Machynlleth]]. Although the county as such is a creation of the Middle Ages, it is of ancient origin, its borders corresponding roughly to the med ...ool]] in south [[Lancashire]]. The main industries are agriculture (mainly hill farming) and tourism.
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  • [[File:Buckie Harbour and Bin Hill.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Bin Hill behind Buckie Harbour]] *[[Larig Hill]] (1,783 feet)
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  • |picture=Cheviot Hill countryside - geograph.org.uk - 290451.jpg ...not a shire on the edge but the heart of the land King James called "the [[Middle Shires]]".
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  • ...vice industries. ''Boots The Chemist'' is the largest employer. From the Middle Ages Nottingham was a weaving town and here Richard Arkwright brought his n ...ity, ''Tiguocobauc'', means "house of caves" and with justification as the hill on which Nottingham Castle is built has spacious caves beneath it and evide
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  • ...gnus died for his Christian faith.<ref>Crawford, Barbara E. "Orkney in the Middle Ages" in Omand (2003) p. 69.</ref>|group="Notes"}}{{#tag:ref|"St Magnus Cat ...Haraldsson's murder in [[Thurso]].<ref>Crawford, Barbara E. "Orkney in the Middle Ages" in Omand (2003) pp. 72-73.</ref> The Earldom of Caithness was granted
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  • ...872 feet, Trahenna Hill at 1,792 feet, Penvalla at 1,764 feet) and Ladyurd Hill, 1,724 feet. ...demuir Hill Fort - geograph.org.uk - 758819.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cademuir Hill Fort]]
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  • [[File:Gourock from Lyle Hill.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Gourock from Lyle Hill]] ..., [[East Girt Hill]] (1,673 feet), [[Misty Law]] (1,663 feet) and [[Creuch Hill]] (1,446 feet). Much of the higher land in the centre is well wooded.
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  • ...des. The summit ridges provide excellent scrambling, and are popular with hill walkers and mountaineers. However, like many ridge routes, there are few e ...Bay and Loch Maree. Between the last named and Gairloch, on both sides of middle Loch Torridon and at many other spots smaller patches appear. The Lewisian
    22 KB (3,583 words) - 09:40, 14 April 2018
  • ...n inland [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]]; the middlemost of the [[Middle Shires]] it looks both west and east. Historically it was a lawless place ...Tweed, but the old town was destroyed repeatedly in the border wars of the Middle Ages and after the final fall of [[Berwick upon Tweed|Berwick]] in 1460 it
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  • This is gentle hill country, a green landscape, well wooded and well grazed on the open slopes The highest hill, the [[county top]] is [[Dun Rig]] amongst the [[Manor Hills]], its gentle
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  • |highest point=[[Hill of Arisdale]], 689 feet ...ous, and five or six ships. They arrived at Hjaltland [Shetland] about the middle of Summer, but heard nothing of Frákork. Strong and contrary winds sprung
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  • [[File:Lyth Hill 01.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Countryside of mid-Shropshire.]] ...lso struck with dramatic hills, such as the [[Long Mynd]] and an enigmatic hill on its own in the midst of the shire, [[the Wrekin]].
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