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• Aberdeenshire
  *[[Ben Macdhui]], 4,296 feet, a magnificent mass, the [[county top]] and the second-highest mountain in the [[United Kingdom]], *[[Ben Avon#Cairn Eas|Cairn Eas]], 3,556 feet, a subsidiary Munro top of Ben Avon
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• Berwickshire
  ..., whose average height is about 1,000 feet, and here is found the [[County top|highest point]] in the county, the shoulder of [[Meikle Says Law]] (1,749 f ...y few brochs found in the Lowlands. Known history though begins after the collapse of Roman power.
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• Hertfordshire
  The [[County top|highest point in the county]] is 803 feet above sea level, on the border wi ...y 18th century has left unrecorded underground galleries that occasionally collapse unexpectedly and endanger buildings.<ref>{{cite web
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• County Mayo
  ...into the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. There is a spectacular viewing point on the top of the cliffs opposite the entrance to the [[Céide Fields]] near [[Ballyca |valign="top"|
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• Terminology of the British Isles
  ...of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Leeds</ref> the UK's Internet top-level domain is '''.uk''', a break from the practice of following ISO 3166 {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid grey"
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• County flowers
  ...heir county. The following year, the competition was whittled down to the top two for each of the 92 counties in the United Kingdom, for the Isle of Man {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid grey;" cellpadding="2"
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• Inner Temple
  ...e Inns almost shut down for nearly four years; the Inns "suffered a mortal collapse".<ref name=hist1/> Nothing was done to adapt the old system of legal educat The Gateway, at the top of Inner Temple Lane on Fleet Street, is thought to have existed in the sam
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• British flags
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• British overseas territory
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• Gibraltar
  ...aginians and Romans also established semi-permanent settlements. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Gibraltar came briefly under the control of the Vandal A cable car which lifts from ground level by the Botanic Gardens to the top of the Rock, with an intermediate station at Apes’ Den.
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• Wrexham
  ...and the Yale Studio theatre close to Llwyn Isaf. Local theatre group, Tip Top Productions [http://www.TipTopProductions.co.uk] also present the annual Ch ...ohn Wilkinson, the 'Iron Mad' pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. At the top end of the Clywedog Valley, about ten minutes' drive from Wrexham, Minera L
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• Bermondsey
  ...ge in World War II bombing and became redundant in the 1960s following the collapse of the river trade. After standing derelict for some years, many of the wha ...06/https://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/image/0009/39951/station-usage-2017-18-top-10-gb-stations.png|archive-date=April 7, 2019|url-status=}}</ref> Services
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• Hemel Hempstead
  ...view over Hemel Hempstead to see its setting in the landscape is from the top of Roughdown Common, a chalk hill to the south of the town, at {{getmap|TL0 ...s conquest is also celebrated in the name of a pub in Warners End – the 'Top of the World'.
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• Dungannon
  An interesting feature of the town is the former police barracks at the top right-hand corner of the market square which is quite unlike any other poli ...and is Tyrone's only representative in the league, following Omagh Town's collapse. The club represented Northern Ireland in European competition in 2005-06 a
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• Motherwell
  ...ered from the high unemployment and economic decline brought about by this collapse of heavy industry. A number of call centres and business parks such as Stra ...be one of the most established clubs in the top flight, having been in the top flight since the mid-1980s.
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• Irish flags
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• County top
  ...ridge or watershed. A few are on the border of the county and may be the top of two counties. ...Nevis, the highest ground in the British Isles and consequently the county top of [[Inverness-shire]], and the lowest [[Bush Ground]] in [[Huntingdonshire
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• Montserrat
  ...but an impressive view of the destruction of Plymouth can be had from the top of Garibaldi Hill in Isles Bay. Relatively quiet since early 2010, the vol ...lows down several sides of the mountain, and on 11 February 2010 a partial collapse of the lava dome that sent a column of ash more than 20,000 feet into the a
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• Great Yarmouth
  ...ramework. During the winter of 2005 there were worries that building might collapse, and during high winds it was often closed. [[File:Britannia at the top of Nelson's monument. - geograph.org.uk - 268664.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The
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• Hadrian's Wall
  ...dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to have made it vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core was sometimes necessary. ...s ''Cilurnum'' (Chesters) and ''Vercovicium'' (Housesteads), were built on top of the footings of milecastles or turrets, showing the change of plan. An i
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• Cayman Islands
  {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid grey;" cellpadding="2" ...Brac's eastern part, which rises to 141 feet above sea level, the [[County top#Territory tops|highest point]] on the islands.
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• St Kilda
  {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid grey;" cellpadding="2" ...ar to cement it, and is built in form of a circle pyramid-wise towards the top, having a vent in it, the fire being always in the centre of the floor; the
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• Wimbledon
  ...is thought to have been built. The original centre of Wimbledon was at the top of the hill close to the common; the area now known locally as "the village ...w house to replace the Cecil-built manor house but, due to the spectacular collapse of the company, never finished it.
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• Malvern Hills
  ...ershire Beacon]] at 1,394 feet above sea level, which is also the [[county top]] of [[Worcestershire]]. ...ire Beacon]], the site of the "British Camp", an Iron Age hill fort at the top of the hill. The site is thought to date back before Christ and has been ex
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• York
  ...that revealed the building, in particular the central tower, was close to collapse. £2,000,000 was raised and spent by 1972 to reinforce and strengthen the b |title=York voted top city for tourists
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• Inishowen
  ...century, although some damage in recent years has resulted in the partial collapse of the south side wall. Among the main castle ruins of Inishowen are Carric ...competition several times), past Five Finger Strand and then up onto cliff top viewpoint and car park at Knockamany Bens, then down again to sea level wi
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• Sheffield
  ...aditional local industries during the 1970s and 1980s, coinciding with the collapse of coal mining in the area. ...umber of new reservoirs were constructed on the outskirts of the town. The collapse of the dam wall of one of these reservoirs in 1864 resulted in the Great Sh
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• City of London
  ...he City" and "The Square Mile" are terms used to refer to high finance and top-end financial services. The City is the greatest centre of high finance in ...and H G Wells in ''The Shape of Things to Come'' alludes to a catastrophic collapse of the ground caused by the tall buildings of his day, which force the [[Ri
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• Shapinsay
  ...ge|publisher=Undiscovered Scotland|accessdate=13 October 2007}}</ref> This collapse helped fuel agricultural reform, as crofters accustomed to earning a second ...as ''The Douche''. This is a saltwater shower building with a dovecote on top. A local landmark due to its high visibility when approaching the island by
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• Soufrière Hills
  ...ills Volcano dome collapse.gif|thumb|200px|Before and after a partial dome collapse]] ...any lava domes forming its summit. The highest point (and the [[territory top]]) is [[Chances Peak]], which reaches over 3,000 feet, depending on the sta
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• Jersey
  After the collapse of Roman power, Jersey was part of Neustria with the same Gallo-Frankish po ...vision. The 2006/07 champions were Jersey Scottish where Ross Crick is the top scorer. The Jersey national football team plays in the annual Muratti compe
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• Furth Munro
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• Penmon
  ...n Priory.]</ref> It is almost complete except for about a foot between the top of the shaft and the head.<ref name="ref2">[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.to ...igeons for their eggs and meat. It has a large domed roof with a cupola on top so birds could fly in and out.<ref name="ref1">[http://www.anglesey-history
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• Stonehenge
  ...the final visual effect in mind; the orthostats widen slightly towards the top in order that their perspective remains constant when viewed from the groun ...rumbling tunnel within the ground would be better than a rumbling road on top of it. On 6 December 2007, it was announced that these extensive plans had
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• Papa Stour
  ...Lord Thorvald Thoresson is said to have constructed the tiny house at its top, whose ruins are still visible, in order to "preserve" his daughter from me ...Shetland Museum]. The archives include images of Da Horn o Papa before its collapse.
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• Burnley
  ...550, still centred around the church, St Peter's, in what is now known as "Top o' th' Town". Prosperous residents built larger houses, including Gawthorpe ...) collapsed,<ref>[http://www.burnleyexpress.net/peek-into-the-past/How-the-collapse-of-Holgate39s.5428267.jp Burnley Express] Accessed 2010</ref> forcing the c
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• Mingulay
  ...was also increasingly aware of their relative isolation. Writing about the collapse of similar populations in the [[Hebrides]], Neat (2000) suggests: ...weather should not be underestimated. In 1868 a huge wave washed over the top of Geirum Mor, taking the sheep with it. The summit of the islet is 170&nbs
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• Ashton-under-Lyne
  ...being "under the line" of the [[Pennines]].<ref name="Imp Gaz"/><ref name="Top of England"/> ...erged, the number of spindles in use increased.<ref name=Nevell/> With the collapse of the overseas market in the 1920s, the town's cotton industry went into d
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• Town and village flags of the United Kingdom
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• Winsford
  ...o Winsford, partly because the salt mines under [[Northwich]] had begun to collapse and another source of salt near the [[River Weaver]] was needed.<ref>{{Cite ...f [[Cheshire|Chester]] and [[Lancashire|Lancaster]]. The Winsford Flashes (Top Flash, Middle Flash, and Bottom Flash, the largest) are three lakes along t
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• Foulness
  ...d the Board remained confident that the scheme would be completed, but the collapse of the Overend Gurney bank precipitated a crisis in the City of London, whi ...as accompanied by strong winds, creating large waves, which broke over the top of the defences, washing away the earthen banks on the inland side of the w
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• List of Queen Elizabeth II Fields
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• Ring of Gullion
  The ring centres on Slieve Gullion, the [[county top]] of Armagh. It measures roughly 26 miles by 11 miles and encompasses some ...of the ring dyke was produced when the active volcano's caldera underwent collapse producing a concentric suite of faults providing space into which magma was
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• Coggeshall
  Coggeshall is situated on top of a large deposit of London Clay. The main river is the [[River Blackwater ...mber 1940, the Luftwaffe bombed the church causing the roof of the nave to collapse and significant structural damage, repairs were completed in 1956. To celeb
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• Flags of the British overseas territories
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• Flags of the British Empire
  ...rted effectively to colony status almost immediately following a financial collapse. Southern Rhodesia was treated as a dominion though not officially of that ...m 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"
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• St Helens
  ...in the town centre. St Helens is around 160 feet above sea level. From the top of [[Billinge Hill]] near the town, the cities of [[Manchester]] and [[Live ...of Mineworkers during the year-long Miners' Strike of 1984-1985. After the collapse of the miners' strike in March 1985, St Helens was but one of dozens of tow
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• Wetherlam
  ...Swirl How]]. Midway along this ridge is '''Black Sails''', an intermediate top usually considered to be part of Wetherlam,<ref name="richards"> Richards, '''Black Sails''' is a subsidiary top south-west of the main summit at {{map|NY282007}}. It reaches a height of
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• River Don, Yorkshire
  The Great Sheffield Flood, which occurred on 11 March 1864 following the collapse of the Dale Dike Dam on a tributary of the River Loxley, destroyed 800 hous ...areas of alluvial and glacial material, up to 66 feet think, which lies on top of strata of Magensian limestone and Sherwood sandstone.<ref>{{harvnb |Amis
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• Newmilns
  ...olm Street, where the force of the river caused the adjacent stone wall to collapse<ref>[http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/viewgallery/viewfile.asp?town=&ftext=& ...High Street was originally divided into three, being known from bottom to top as ''Doitburn Street'', ''Grey Street'' & ''High Street'' respectively.<ref
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• Orford Ness
  ...influence on its formation has been storm waves throwing shingle over the top of the beach crest, where it is protected from ordinary wave action.<ref na ...ined manner. In the event of a larger accident, the roofs were designed to collapse onto the building, sealing it with a lid of concrete.
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• Orford Castle
  ...with 20 knights being based there.<ref>Brown (2004), p.136.</ref> Upon the collapse of the rebellion, Henry ordered the permanent confiscation of Framlingham C ...installed.<ref>Hartshorne, p.61; White, p.516.</ref> Francis furnished the top of the keep for use as an apartment by guests.<ref name=WhiteP516>White, p.
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• Silbury Hill
  ...kinson 1974:128) to deposit and shape 325,000 cu. yds of earth and fill on top of a natural hill. Euan W Mackie asserts that no simple late Neolithic trib ...one another.<ref>Atkinson 1974 p. 128</ref> There are indications that the top originally had a rounded profile, but this was flattened in the Middle Ages
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• Batley
  .... There are several chain shops, including Boots the Chemist and until its collapse, a Woolworth's store which lies empty. ...n to the area's employment and economic status. Redbrick Mill, houses many top end furniture retailers such as Heal's and Multi York and local textile man
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• Rhondda Valley
  ...182"/> The trustees sank the Bute Merthyr Colliery in October 1851, at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in what would become [[Treherbert]]. The Bute Merthyr b ...ars, though there were expectations of a return to the pre-1939 industrial collapse after the end of the Second World War. Amongst miners if not mine owners, t
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• Shannon Cave
  ===Collapse and re-entry=== ...30&nbsp;metres to a {{convert|10|m|ft|0|x|adj=on}} upward pitch, from the top of which led {{convert|70|m|yd|0|x}} of crawling passage to a number of dee
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• Cuillin
  |[[Sgùrr Alasdair]] || Grade 2 scramble || North-east ridge from top of Great Stone Chute {| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 style="border-collapse: collapse; background:#f0f0f0;"
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• Kenilworth Castle
  ...ref name="Thompson, p.77; Pettifer, p.258"/> The tall Tudor windows at the top of the tower date from the 1570s.<ref>Morris 2010, p.8.</ref> ...y in the form of pitched battles.<ref>Pounds, p.249.</ref> With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, Queen Margaret used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the M
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• Florence Court
  ...illen]]. It is set in the foothills of [[Cuilcagh]] Mountain, the [[county top]]. The nearby village takes its name from the estate. ...ed on the floor above to quickly drain away and thereby preventing ceiling collapse. Two of these holes are still evident in the Dining Room today.
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• Roseberry Topping
  ...geological fault and possibly nearby alum and ironstone mining caused its collapse. The area immediately below the summit is still extensively pitted and scar ...”. "Topping" is a Yorkshire dialect derivation of Old English ''topp'', 'top (of a hill)'.<ref>A. H. Smith, ''English Place-Name Elements'', 2 vols, Eng
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• Dover Castle
  ...g it with massive brick vaults he was able to mount heavy artillery on the top. Twiss also constructed Canon's Gateway to link the defences of the castle ...as to create a complex of barracks tunnels about 15 metres below the cliff top and the first troops were accommodated in 1803. At the height of the Napole
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• Sissinghurst Castle
  ...astle stands solid and restored and provides vast panoramic views from the top over 450-acre estate and the wider Kentish countryside. After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: a
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• Raglan Castle
  ...een.<ref>Tribe, pp.6-7.</ref> The Royalist cause was now close to military collapse, and the Marquess started to send some valuables, including the oak panelli [[File:Raglan Castle tower and moat.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The view from the top of the Great Tower]]
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• University of Cambridge
  ...1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border:1px #aaa solid; border-collapse:collapse; text-align:left" class="sortable" ...ours after completing the mathematics Tripos are termed wranglers, and the top student among them is the Senior Wrangler The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
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• Rochester Castle
  ...wooden props supporting the tunnel dug beneath the keep were set alight to collapse the mine, bringing down one corner of the keep. Still the garrison held out ...ors, and another in the south-west corner went from the first floor to the top floor.<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1969|p=37}}</ref> The north-west corner tower con
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• Windsor Castle
  Windsor Castle's position on top of steep ground has meant that the castle's gardens are limited in scale.<r ...old royal residence. The initial wooden castle consisted of a keep on the top of a man-made motte, or mound, protected by a small bailey wall, occupying
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• St Vigeans
  The situation of the churhc on top of a prominent, steep-sided mound (presumably of glacial origin, though dou ...e western tower was also heightened and 'improved' by adding a castellated top and cap-house. The 18th century headstones in the kirkyard, some of which
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...pur, the outer fortification of the castle, which had been isolated by the collapse. The following day Grange emerged from the castle by a ladder after calling Edinburgh Castle is located at the top of the Royal Mile, at the west end of Edinburgh's [[Old Town, Edinburgh|Old
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• List of Munros
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• Monnow Bridge
  ...s first street lamp was erected by the town council. In the late 1920s the top portion was replaced with twin electric lamps. In the 1960s the lamp was re
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• Netley Abbey
  ...he church also has a large window, the tracery of which was destroyed in a collapse during the eighteenth century. Surviving fragments show that it was built i The monks' dormitory was on the top floor of the east range, a long room with a high pitched roof (the mark of
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• Lincoln Castle
  ...e as the castle's westgate) was excavated in the 19th century but began to collapse on exposure, and so was re-buried. ...d for music concerts and other public entertainment. A wall-walk along the top of the outer walls was opened in 2015.
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• Lincoln Cathedral
  ...uction or design; with the actual collapse most probably caused by a vault collapse.<ref name=BGS>{{cite book|last=Musson|first=R.M.W.|title=The seismicity of ...ger connected to the adjoining stonework, and repairs were made to prevent collapse. The most recent problem was the discovery that the stonework of the Dean's
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• Broch of Gurness
  The broch continued to be inhabited while it began to collapse and the original structures were altered. The cistern was filled in and the ...d anymore and some of its stones were reused to build smaller dwellings on top of the earlier buildings.<ref name="Monuments"/>{{rp|38}} Until about the 8
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• Old Man of Hoy
  ...that the stack is no more than a few hundred years old, and so it may soon collapse into the sea. ...a 200-foot chasm strewn with debris, and has nearly vertical sides with a top just a few yards wide.<ref name=jncc/> The rock is composed of layers of so
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• Clevedon Court
  ...ntury, the space behind the great pilastered wall was infilled to make the top terrace, which has wide views across the valley to the Mendip Hills beyond. ...gle rose arbour remained from the Edwardian garden but was on the verge of collapse when it was replaced with a new one in 2009, marking 300 years of the Elton
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• Manchester Metrolink
  ...d passenger transport executives to produce local transport plans, GMPTE's top public transport priority was a third phase of Metrolink expansion, which w ! &nbsp;Top speed&nbsp;
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• St Bees Priory
  ...ng the large bell tower which was structurally repaired to prevent further collapse; it had deteriorated to not far above the present arches. There was continu ...Dissolution.<br/> In the ruined fragment of the south wall can be seen the top steps of the monk's night stairs and a squint window, while to the east the
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• Hadleigh Castle
  The site was chosen on top of a local ridge, overlooking the Thames estuary, formed from a geologicall ...e built on the site was probably of an octagonal design, running along the top of the ridge, protected by square and semi-circular mural towers, with a ba
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• Llandaff Cathedral
  ...red major damage in the Great Storm of 1703 and by 1720, was in a state of collapse. In 1734, work began on a new cathedral, designed by John Wood, the Elder,< ...f Blitz, blowing the roof off the nave, south aisle and chapter house. The top of the spire also had to be reconstructed<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sky
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• M62 motorway
  </ref> and a partial collapse of the framework caused by bolts joining a cross-beam to a trestle shearing |title=Spaghetti Junction is top sight
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• Pevensey Castle
  ...dication of how the garrison reached the top.<ref name="Johnson" /> At the top of the wall the remains of mediæval crenellations can still be seen, which ...ate 18th century engraving shows the remains of the building in a state of collapse and it had completely collapsed by the 1880s.<ref name="FR130">{{cite book|
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• Huntly Castle
  ..."Auld Hall." On the following day a servant went up to the Gallery at the top of the "New Warke" where spices (which were precious) were stored. This ser
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• Red House, Bexleyheath
  ...s being introduced by his friend, in February 1862 Burne-Jones wrote that "Top [i.e. Morris] thrives through bandy, and is slowly making Red House the bea With the collapse of his ideas regarding Upton becoming the base for the Firm's operations, M
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• M40 motorway
  ...style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom: 1em; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; class="wikitable" ...e lanes and a hard shoulder London bound. The motorway is carried over the top of the roundabout, which interchanges with the A40 (A413, A412) (outbound),
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• Conisbrough Castle
  ...lapse of the walls was a consequence of the instability of the top soil on top of the limestone spur, which was a mixture of clay and sandstone; once the ...the slighting that affected many similar properties, probably because the collapse of the outer walls had already made it indefensible and of little military
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• Grisedale Pike
  ...ed regularly since the early nineteenth century. The mine suffered a major collapse in 1990 which led to the owners, the New Coledale Mining Company, deciding ...Whinlatter Pass and goes up the northern ridge taking in the “Nuttall” top of Hobcarton End before continuing to the summit. From the same starting po
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• St Athan
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• St Catherine's Oratory
  There was already an oratory on the top of the hill, dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria. This was augmented by ...ouse]] bolstered the structure by adding 4 large buttresses to prevent its collapse.<ref name=beacon/>
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• Tramlink
  ...Line 3 Croydon to New Addington.<ref name="Tramlink p 10">''Tramlink: Your top 10 questions answered…'' Poster, 1995.</ref> On 23 July 2006 the network | valign="top" |
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• Tyne and Wear Metro
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• Sheffield Supertram
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• Chesterfield Canal
  ...r a rail bridge which was constructed very close to water level (after the collapse of the Norwood tunnel when the waterway was being used only to supply water
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• Pendlebury
  ...decline of the industry, the once popular Pendlebury Miners' Club (at the top of Temple Drive, Swinton) was inevitably demolished in the 1990s. ...to Liverpool line]] and Clifton Junction until the [[Black Harry Tunnel]] collapse of 1953 which caused five deaths when two houses from Temple Drive, Swinton
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• Pacific Ocean
  ...chaeologists can tell from the sparse remains found, then deserted after a collapse in the Mangareva Island society which supplied its trade; when the ''Bounty ...on is an uplifted coral platform, which is to say a coral island formed on top of a volcanic rock platform. Oeno and Ducie and coral atolls; rings of cor
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• Gwennap
  ...19th century become synonymous with steam technology, attracting Britain's top engineers including Boulton & Watt and William Murdoch. Together with Corni ...per. In Gwennap no such deposits were found and when low prices caused the collapse of the copper market in the 1860s, many mines were forced to close or amalg
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• Ribblehead Viaduct
  ...uilt by the Midland Railway to take the Settle-Carlisle Railway across the top of Ribblesdale. It is today a Grade II* listed structure.<ref name=NHLE>{{N ...25 feet deep. Every sixth pier is 50% thicker to mitigate against complete collapse should any pier fail. The north end of the viaduct is 13 feet higher in ele
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• Chester Cathedral
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• Portsmouth Cathedral
  ...ed in 1750. The wooden cupola with a lantern for shipping was added to the top of the tower in 1703. A ring of eight bells was given at the same time. Two ..."temporary" brick wall was found to have become unstable and in danger of collapse, which made the completion work pressing. The task of the architects was to
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• Winchester Cathedral
  ...depths up to 20 feet, and is credited with saving the cathedral from total collapse.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/content/articles/2008/0 ...ally, four equal parts, a base, an upright, a cross piece, and a top - the top is somewhat like the cross of St Peter, while the stem is reminiscent of a
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• Blackpool Tower
  ...cial condition, Stabndard was unable to pay: Bickerstaffe, to prevent the collapse of his venture, bought up available shares until his original holding of £ ...paid sixpence for admission, sixpence more for a ride in the lifts to the top, and a further sixpence for the circus.<ref name=BT71-80 /> The first membe
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• River Weaver
  ...and weir at Pickerings, but in 1759, the navigation was cut in half by the collapse of a salt pit at Northwich. The commissioners discovered that they could no ...mall electric motors to overcome friction. The new lift was built over the top of the old one, so that it could continue to be used until the new one was
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• Iron Ring
  ...their political significance as well as military functions, being built on top of sites belonging to the Welsh princes. The castles incorporated luxury ap ...}; {{harvnb|Liddiard|2005|p=55}}</ref> Conwy was deliberately sited on the top of [[Aberconwy Abbey]], the traditional burial place of the Welsh princes,
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• Old Windsor Lock
  ...small weir beside the lock, but the main weir is some way upstream at the top end of Ham Island. ...included digging through the bank of the lock cut and thereby causing the collapse of the new lock cut bridge. The weir was constructed in 1836. In 1868 there
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• Chelsea Bridge
  ...it Chelsea Bridge to avoid the Royal Family's association with a potential collapse. In 1926 it was proposed that the old bridge be rebuilt or replaced, due to ...d about the reliability of suspension bridges and did not want a potential collapse to be associated with the Queen.{{sfn|Cookson|2006|p=134}}
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• Battersea Power Station
  ...s 338 feet tall with a base diameter of 28 feet tapering to 22 feet at the top. The station also had jetty facilities for unloading coal, a coal sorting a ...t, the same company who designed [[Wembley Stadium]]. This failed with the collapse of the REO scheme in 2011.
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• Tay Rail Bridge
  ...ingle-track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disaste ...under the river. At either end of the bridge the single rail track ran on top of the bridge girder, most of which therefore lay below the pier tops. In
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• Longbridge
  After the collapse of MG Rover group the old XPower building was transferred to EH Smiths Buil ...al-sloping building clad in blue, going from dark to light as it nears the top. At the back the building, which will lead on to Austin Park, is clad in a
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• Leeds Town Hall
  Until early 1813, the Moot Hall at the top of Briggate was the seat of Leeds Corporation and was used for judicial pur ...Evening Post''|url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/opening-titles-ready-to-roll-on-2012-leeds-international-film-festi
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• Lincoln's Inn
  ...ivided into four or five floors of chambers, with residential flats on the top floor. The buildings are used both by barristers and solicitors and other p ...f name=w2/> The weight of the plaster created the risk that the roof would collapse, and between 1924 and 1927 Sir John Simpson dismantled the entire hall, str
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• Antrim Hills
  ...reach their highest point on the summit of [[Trostan]], Antrim's [[county top]], at 1,804 feet. {| class="wikitable sortable toccolours" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid grey;" cellpadding="2"
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• Grianan of Aileach
  ...cent of the hill is described as gradual but within a hundered feet of the top, it terminated in a circular apex. An ancient road between two ledges of na ...ts that there were originally three or four such terraces ascending to the top of the wall. On each side of the entranceway, there are "galleries" within
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• The Crystal Palace
  ...o an area south of the Thames known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to [[Sydenham Hill]], an affluent suburb of large villas ...ered by a 72-foot-wide barrel-vaulted roof that stood 168 feet high at the top of the arch. Both the flat-profile sections and the arched transept roof we
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• Rufus Castle
  ...nacle of rock, some of the original structure has been lost to erosion and collapse over the years. ...been the keep of a stronghold, the foundation of which was much above the top of the church tower of St Andrews which lay in the valley below. The pentag
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• Snaefell Mountain Railway
  ...n. The IoMT&EP went into liquidation in 1900 as a consequence of a banking collapse. The railway and the MER were sold by the liquidator to the newly-formed Ma ...mit during the winter months, when the overhead lines are removed from the top section of the line to prevent frost damage.
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• Sneinton
  ...ation Army, and mathematician George Green, who worked Green's Mill at the top of Belvoir Hill. ...one, using the caves as back rooms.<ref name="sneinton2" /> In 1829 a rock collapse destroyed these buildings, and in 1897 a railway expansion forced Manvers R
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• Rawmarsh
  ...st rebuilt, J.P. Pritchett being the architect. In 1869 the tower began to collapse and was rebuilt incorporating features of the original Norman doorway. In 1
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• Tay Bridge
  ...epth under the river. At either end of the bridge, the single track ran on top of the bridge girder, most of which lay below the pier tops. At the centre ...ach column section docked securely into a machined enlarged section of the top of the section below. The joint was then secured by bolts through matching
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• Tomnaverie Stone Circle
  ...nt stone circle, believed to have been built in the Bronze Age, set on the top of a small hill in [[Aberdeenshire]]. This circle stands at the top of a small hill about half a mile south of [[Tarland]] in Aberdeenshire.
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• Sandgate Castle
  ...e problems, noting that the sea had caused a third of the southern wall to collapse; the necessary repairs, including strengthening the walls, were projected a ...plan of the castle; north-west and north-east towers and gatehouse at the top]]
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• Sandsfoot Castle
  ...s been unstable and subject to erosion. The castle's gun platform began to collapse into the sea and, by the 1950s, had been entirely destroyed. The ruins were ...ced the main fall in 1835, and T. Groves argued in favour of a more recent collapse in the second half of the 19th century.
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• Cowes Castle
  ...a ditch {{convert|4|m}} wide and a stone wall at least 8 feet wide at the top. It was built from limestone ashlar stone, which may have been recycled fro ...An inspection in 1692 reported that the walls were cracked and at risk of collapse, and the antiquarian Francis Grose observed in 1785 that the castle was "st
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• Glasgow School of Art
  ...ubject-rankings/2020/art-design|title=Art & Design|date=2020-02-24|website=Top Universities|language=en|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> ...antling was established to stabilise the portions of the facade at risk of collapse, notably the south elevation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gsapress.blogspot.c
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• Castle Salem
  ...airway. It was originally about 70 feet high until William Morris took the top off, and put on it a slated roof. ...to the office of Lord Protector in 1658, but was powerless to prevent the collapse of the Protectorate the following year. He resigned as Lord-Deputy in June
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• North Bridge, Edinburgh
  ...of foundations required. This, together with other design faults, led to a collapse of part of the structure on 3 August 1769, killing five people. Rebuilding ...Princes Street was 1,125 feet. The height of the central arches, from the top of the parapet to the base, was 68 feet and its the breadth within the wall
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• Boston Manor
  ...consolidate the foundations to prevent further deterioration and possible collapse. The Clitheroe Family in the 19th century added to the top of the newel posts small plaster or composition castings of lions 'sejant e
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• Clitheroe Castle
  In 1848, with the ruined keep in danger of collapse it was decided to undertake a series of repairs. At least £221 was spent o ...hey say that he attacked the castle and fired at it with a cannon from the top of Pendle Hill – it must have been a good cannon for the time to reach th
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• Danebury
  ...has been interpreted as maintenance work due to the ramparts beginning to collapse as the timber box started to rot.<ref>Cunliffe (1983), p.&nbsp;51.</ref> Ar ...robably have been surmounted by a dry stone wall made from flint. From the top of the ramparts to the bottom of the ditch is about 52 feet.<ref name=c53>C
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• Greywell Tunnel
  ...During the summer the air flow is reversed, with warm air flowing into the top of the tunnel and being cooled as it flows back out over the water. By 2006
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• Barcombe
  ...villa stood near a crossroads, and it has been found that it was built on top of an earlier Iron Age roundhouse. The Roman inhabitants are likely to have ...es and return year after year. Sadly these populations are on the brink of collapse due to mismanagement of these waterways, largely by Southern Water and some
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• Cissbury Ring
  ...th timber palisade. The 600&nbsp;foot hill is open to the public. From the top, one is able to see to the west [[Selsey]], [[Chichester Cathedral]], the [ ...ed the remains of a young woman who had been apparently killed in a tunnel collapse around 2000 BC. Charcoal possibly from her torch and a miniature whale carv
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• Small Heath
  Small Heath, which has been settled and used since Roman times, sits on top of a small hill. The slightly elevated site offers poor agricultural land, ...takeover of BSA but closed down, much of it being demolished following the collapse of the British motorcycle industry. A business park now occupies the site w
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• Elan Valley Reservoirs
  ...ventually built to all the other dam sites. Engines and trucks reached the top of the dams on wooden trestle scaffolds supported by concrete parapets. The ...at an underwater explosion could create sufficient hydrostatic pressure to collapse a dam wall. The test proved successful as a significant breach in the middl
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• Beverley Minster
  ...l failure of this transept over the centuries had almost brought about its collapse and the ruin of the crossing itself, with the transept gable overhanging th ...us/history-and-building/plan-of-the-minster/|title=Plan of the Minster and top visitor attractions » Beverley Minster|access-date=6 July 2012|archive-url
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• Fernhill, Lanarkshire
  ...lang-communities-top-list-8784233 Rutherglen and Cambuslang communities at top of list of most deprived areas in Scotland], Edel Kenealy, Daily Record, 8 ....co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-40119852 |title=Landscaping firm collapse costs 135 jobs |publisher=BBC News|date=1 June 2017 |accessdate=23 August 2
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