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• Penzance
  The town lies in the shelter of Mount's Bay facing south-east onto the [[English Channel]]. To the west lies the fishing port of [[N ...ast path. Nearer to hand, the pretty fishing port of [[Newlyn]] is to the south, now contiguous with Penzance, and around the cliff is [[Mousehole]] from w
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• Isle of Wight
  ...land of [[Hampshire]] in the [[English Channel]], 3–5 miles off the south coast of Great Britain. It is separated from the main body of Hampshire by The south coast of the island borders the [[English Channel]]. Without man's interven
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• Poole
  ...town at the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]] lies [[Wimborne Minster]]. South of Poole along the coast lies Poole Bay, with 3 miles of sandy beaches from ...d by lowland heathland to the north and wooded chines and coastline to the south. The heathland habitat supports the six native British reptile species and
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• Grimsby
  ...stinguish it from [[Little Grimsby]], a village about 14 miles to the south, near [[Louth, Lincolnshire|Louth]]. ...of the usual trends, large numbers of fishermen from the South-East and [[Devon]] travelled North to join the Grimsby fleet. Over 40% of these newcomers ca
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• Bridgwater
  ...o junctions of the M5 motorway. Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line between [[Bristol]] and Taunton. ...s built with a pair of adjacent gates and drawbridges. The keep was at the south-east corner of what is now King Square, and documents show that the complex
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• Land's End to John o' Groats
  ...he following morning buses via Wick to John o' Groats, an ordinary one-way railway fare for the rail section of the journey cost £216.<ref>[http://www.transp ...West Coast Path''; or by a shorter inland route through [[Cornwall]] and [[Devon]] by minor roads and paths, the ''Two Castles Trail'' and the towpath of th
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...n the route of the old Great North Road), and the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. It has town walls, a large though ruined castle, and a large Georgian mar ...e flood meadow by the town the little [[River Devon, Nottinghamshire|River Devon]] flows, joining the Trent here.
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• Taunton
  ...nr.naturalengland.org.uk/special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?themeid=1082977|title=South Taunton Streams|work=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=English Nature|accessd The parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, built of sandstone more in the South Somerset style, preserves an attractive painted interior, but its most nota
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• Cheddar Yeo
  ...ddar Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon. The name ''Yeo'' is from the Old English word ''ea'', meaning simply "riv It then flows south under a disused railway bridge which used to carry the Cheddar Valley line and west through [[Rackl
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• Land Yeo
  ...Mark Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon, and is known as the Mark Yeo to avoid confusion with the others. The name ...d Estate, north of [[Nailsea]] where it is crossed by Jacklands Bridge and south of [[Wraxall, Somerset|Wraxall]], continuing through a man made watercourse
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• River Forth
  ...[Cambus]] (where it is joined by the river [[River Devon, Clackmannanshire|Devon]]), [[Alloa]], [[Fallin]] and [[Airth]]. ...railway bridge between [[Alloa]] on the north shore and [[Throsk]] on the south opened in 1885 and was closed (and largely demolished) in 1970. Only the m
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• Beaulieu River
  The '''Beaulieu River''' ({{IPA|bjuːli}}) is a small river flowing south through the [[New Forest]] in [[Hampshire]]. The river is some 12 miles lon ...River rises near [[Lyndhurst]] in the centre of the New Forest, and flows south-easterly across the forest heaths to the village of [[Beaulieu]]. At Beauli
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• River Tavy
  The '''Tavy''' is a river on [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]]. It gives its name to [[Tavistock]], the main town on the river, and to t *[[River Burn, Devon|River Burn]]
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• River Exe
  ...lows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in [[Devon]]. ...t [[Exeter]], but there is now a viaduct for the M5 motorway about 2 miles south of the city centre.
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• Gunnislake
  |constituency=South East Cornwall Gunnislake is the first village reached by a traveller from Devon crossing the Tamar by way of the New Bridge, built in 1520.
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• River Tamar
  ...tch where the county border darts west along the [[River Ottery]], leaving Devon on both banks of the Tamar for a short reach. The Tamar's source is some three miles from the north Devon coast, but it flows southward. At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the [[Ham
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• River Erme
  The '''Erme''' is a river in south [[Devon]]. From its source on [[Dartmoor]] it flows in a generally southerly direct ...in Bigbury Bay, between the rivers [[River Yealm|Yealm]] and [[River Avon, Devon|Avon]].
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• Lundy
  |county=Devon |map=Lundy location in Devon.svg
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• Bristol Channel
  ...lamorgan]] and [[Monmouthshire]] on the northern shore and [[Somerset]], [[Devon|Devonshire]] and [[Cornwall]] on the southern. ...Bay, the [[Hartland Point]] peninsula, [[Lundy]], the [[Gower]] Peninsula, South Pembrokeshire and [[Caldey Island]].
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• River Trent
  ...n 1839 to £3,111 in 1855. Many of the connecting waterways were bought by railway companies, and gradually fell into disrepair. In an attempt to improve the ...ioned to survey the river, while negotiations with the North Staffordshire Railway, who owned the Trent and Mersey Canal and had maintained its viability, ens
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