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• Kent
  ...the coming of the Romans, and as the first kingdom established amongst the English after the Romans left Britain, Kent may claim to be Britain's oldest county ...[[English Channel]] to the east and south. France lies 21 miles across the Strait.
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• Beaumaris
  ...mote of [[Dindaethwy]] on the shore of the eastern entrance to the [[Menai Strait]], the tidal waterway separating [[Anglesey]] from the coast of mainland [[ ...nt. To counter further Welsh uprisings, and to ensure control of the Menai Strait, Edward I chose the flat coastal plain as the place to build Beaumaris Cast
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• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
  ...ge stands on the [[Menai Strait]] next to the Britannia Bridge, across the strait from [[Bangor, Caernarfonshire|Bangor]]. The village is best known for its ...which at a height of 88 feet high offers views over Anglesey and the Menai Strait. The Column, designed by Thomas Harrison, celebrates the heroism of Henry P
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• English Channel
  [[File:EnglishChannel.jpg|thumb|300px|Satellite view of the English Channel]] The '''English Channel''' is the sea separating Europe from [[Great Britain]]; France lies
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• Rock of Gibraltar
  ...tands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, commanding the Strait. ...llar being Mons Abyla (now known as Jebel Musa) on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar. In ancient times the two points were said to mark the limit t
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• Gibraltar
  ...ltar has been British territory since 1704 when it was captured by a joint English-Dutch force during the War of the Spanish Succession. Gibraltar was subsequ ...lpe'', one of the Pillars of Hercules. The first reference to Gibraltar in English is in King Alfred's translation of the ''History'' of Paulus Orosius, in wh
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• Isle of Wight
  ...st of Great Britain. It is separated from the main body of Hampshire by a strait called the [[Solent]]. The island is known for its natural beauty, its sail The south coast of the island borders the [[English Channel]]. Without man's intervention, the sea might well have split the i
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• Boston
  ...am Bradford attempted to escape pressure to conform to the teaching of the English church by going to the Netherlands from Boston. At that time unsanctioned e ...n the Market Place and also on Wide Bargate on Wednesday. Market Place and Strait Bargate are the retail hub of the town centre.
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• Dover
  ...of [[Great Britain]] and facing France across the narrowest part of the [[English Channel]]. Dover has since ancient days been the major conduit for traffic ...ssage nearby – the Straits of Dover. The French in turn seek to name the strait after their own town, calling it the ''Pas de Calais''.
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• Mainland, Orkney
  To the southwest, separated by a strait, is [[Hoy]], the second-largest of the islands. To the southeast, Burray i ..., when England was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular visitors, as were w
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• Hirta
  ...inhabited in historic times. The name "Hiort" (in Gaelic) and "Hirta" (in English) have also been applied to the whole archipelago. ...wee island of [[Dùn, St Kilda|Dùn]] is separated from Hirta by a shallow strait about 55 yards wide. This is normally impassable but is reputed to dry out
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• River Stour, Kent
  The '''River Stour''' is a river in [[Kent]] which flows into the [[English Channel]] at [[Pegwell Bay]]. Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour j ...he original point where the Stour entered the erstwhile Wantsum Channel, a strait used for hundreds of years until silting and land reclamation turned the se
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• Port Dinorwic
  ...Felinheli''' is a village in [[Caernarfonshire]] lying beside the [[Menai Strait]] between [[Bangor, Caernarfonshire|Bangor]] and [[Caernarfon]]. The popul ...ral watermills in the local area dependent on the tidal power of the Menai Strait.
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• North Sea
  ...[Straits of Dover]], which mark its southern limit, west of which is the [[English Channel]]. To the north of [[Shetland]], the sea opens out into the Atlant ...&sort_type=alpha&search_id=249i-R7xQrY-16076&result_place=2 German] Oxford English Dictionary</ref> The name "North Sea" was in widespread use long before th
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• Atlantic Ocean
  ...r oceans, the term "ocean" itself was the term for the waters beyond the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] that we now know as the Atlantic. The early Greeks believed In Old English texts it appears as the ''garsecg''<ref>King Alfred's ''Orosius''</ref> (a
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• Pentland Firth
  The '''Pentland Firth''' is a strait which separates the islands of [[Orkney]] from [[Caithness]] in the very no ...ans the British-speaking peoples in contradistinction to the Gaels and the English.
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• Doggerland
  ...Weald]] was twice as long as it is now and stretched across the present [[Strait of Dover]]; the modern Boulonnais landform in France is a remnant of its ea ...System. The impounded water eventually overflowed over the Weald into the English Channel and cut a deep gap which sea erosion widened gradually into the [[S
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• Straits of Gibraltar
  [[File:Strait of Gibraltar 5.53940W 35.97279N.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Straits of Gibral The '''Straits of Gibraltar''' are a narrow strait that connects the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the Mediterranean Sea and separates
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• Straits of Dover
  [[File:Strait of Dover map.png|300px|right|thumb|Map showing the location of the Straits] ...narrowest part of the [[English Channel]]. The Straits mark the end of the English Chanel and the beginning of the [[North Sea]].
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• Goodwin Sands
  ...rby, including the Battle of Goodwin Sands in 1652 and the Battle of Dover Strait in 1917. ...or House, Augusta, Georgia, 'Lady Lovibond: Ghost schooner still sails the English coast', P103-05</ref> No references to the shipwreck are known to exist in
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• Downs (sea area)
  '''The Downs''' are a sheltered roadstead in the [[English Channel]] or [[North Sea]] off the east coast of [[Kent]], between the [[No ...he Dutch navy destroyed a Spanish fleet which had sought refuge in neutral English waters. From Elizabethan times, the presence of Downs helped to make Deal o
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• White Cliffs of Dover
  ...s in Kent, forming part of the coastline of [[Great Britain]] facing the [[Strait of Dover]]. The cliffs are part of the [[North Downs]] formation. The cliff ...ritain because they face towards Europe across the narrowest part of the [[English Channel]], where invasions have historically threatened and against which t
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• Thanet
  <blockquote>"Thanet is an island in the Ocean in the Gallic channel [English Channel], separated from Britannia by a narrow estuary, with fruitful field ...ated in about AD 410. According to Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', Vortigern, King of the Britons, sought assistance from the fierce
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• Llangaffo
  ...ublisher=Wales Directory}}</ref> The mountains of [[Snowdonia]] across the strait in [[Caernarfonshire]] terminate in the west with the abrupt precipices of ...th-century rural church, consistently articulated and detailed in an Early English style".<ref name=List>{{jura|5508|Church of St Caffo}}</ref><ref name=CinW>
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• Diocese of Bangor
  ...s, around 546 by Saint Deiniol. When Augustine came to convert the heathen English, he did not receive submission from Bangor not the other churches among the ...he year 530 a man of noble birth named Deiniol settled here by the [[Menai Strait]], granted land by the king, possibly Maelgwn himself. He enclosed it with
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• Yell Sound
  '''Yell Sound''' is the strait running between [[Yell]] and [[Mainland, Shetland]]. It is the boundary bet ...of the island's name; almost all the place-names of Shetland are Norse or English, but Yell might originally have been a Pictish name of unknown meaning. The
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• Bass Rock
  {{cquote|ane wounderful crag, risand within the sea, with so narrow and strait hals [passage] that na schip nor boit bot allanerlie at ane part of it. Thi ...poetry to come down to us, indeed one of the finest poems ever written in English. James Fisher (1912 - 1970) analysed the reference to sea birds in ''The S
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• Solent
  The '''Solent''' is the strait within [[Hampshire]] separating the [[Isle of Wight]] from the mainland of ...e of uncertain origin and meaning."<ref>A.D. Mills, ''Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'', 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 1998: ISBN 0-19-280074-4),
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• Warrenpoint
  ...ford Lough]] and is separated from the [[Republic of Ireland]] by a narrow strait. The town sprang up within the townland of Ringmackilroy. It is locally nic ...location of their assumed attackers. This British army fire killed a young English tourist, William Hudson, watching the scene from lower Ferryhill road, wher
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• Antarctic Peninsula
  ...ude [[Bowman Coast]], [[Black Coast]], [[Danco Coast]], [[Davis Coast]], [[English Coast]], [[Fallieres Coast]], [[Loubet Land]], [[Nordenskjold Coast]] and t ...rctic Sound]], [[Erebus and Terror Gulf]], [[George VI Sound]], [[Gerlache Strait]] and the [[Lemaire Channel]]. The Lemaire Channel is a popular destination
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• Ulva
  ...st of [[Mull]], separated from the northern arm of that island by a narrow strait (the Sound of Ulva) and by Loch Tuath, so close that it scarcely seems a se The English name "Ulva" is from the Gaelic, ''Ulbha'', but this may have been corruptio
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• Livingston Island
  [[File:Bransfield-Strait.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Bransfield Strait from Livingston Island]] ...ven miles south-west of Livingston's [[Barnard Point]] in the [[Bransfield Strait]], is a volcano whose caldera forms the sheltered harbour of [[Port Foster]
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• Beaumaris Castle
  ...ul, moated, imposing castle commanding the eastern entrance to the [[Menai Strait]]. It was built as one of the [[Iron Ring]] of castles built by [[King Edw ...of the local populace opened the way for the construction of a prosperous English town, protected by a substantial castle.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2004|pp=5–6}
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• Stanley Harbour
  The harbour is connected to the sea through a strait called "the Narrows", which leads into [[Port William, Falkland Islands|Por ...ntcover&dq=History+of+a+voyage+to+the+Malouine&as_brr=1#PPA223,M1 Abridged English version].</ref> and later as ''Port Jackson''. It became "Stanley Harbour"
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• Caernarfon Castle
  ...tle were sacked in 1294 when Madog ap Llywelyn led a rebellion against the English. Caernarfon was recaptured the following year. During the Glyndŵr Rising o ...early castle was on a peninsula, bounded by the River Seiont, the [[Menai Strait]]; it would have been a motte and bailey, defended by a timber palisade and
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• Gibbs Island
  ...nd eight square miles in area. It is bordered to the south by [[Bransfield Strait]] and to the north by the [[Loper Channel]]. The isthmus of The Spit joins ...se aus Husum, 1875 - 1912. Durch fremde Hand ertrunken. Ruhe in Frieden". (English: "Wilhelm Tolz, Sailor from Husum, 1875-1912. Drowned through alien/strange
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• St Michael's Cave
  ...cords of an attempt to change the name of the cave and rename it after the English patron saint, Saint George. However while the name "St George's Cave" was u ...e end of a subterranean tunnel over 15 miles long which passes under the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]. Legend has it that the Barbary Macaques entered The Rock fr
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• Royal Albert Bridge
  ...ephenson raised the girders of his [[Britannia Bridge]] across the [[Menai Strait]] in the same year.<ref>{{cite book|last = Norrie|first = Charles Matthew|t ...er, Cornish people look at it in the other way; in the song "Cousin Jack", English folk duo Show of Hands sing ''I dream of a bridge on the Tamar, It opens us
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• North Queensferry
  ...sh name "Queensferry" and older than the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the English name, which is "Port na Banrighinn" (the port of the queen). "Cas Chaolas" ...d other members of her family) supposedly landed in 1068 while fleeing the English court. The house was built during the First World War to house the admiral
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• Inner Sound
  The '''Inner Sound''' is a strait separating the [[Inner Hebrides|Inner Hebridean]] islands of [[Skye]], [[Ra ...to the straight on the west of Raasay, ''An Linne Rathairseach'' (known in English as the [[Sound of Raasay]]). Together, the two sounds, the Inner Sound and
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• Hermetray
  ...the ''Seòlaid na h-Eala'' and close to North Uist.<ref name=smith/> This strait is named after the ''Eala Bhàn'' (white swan), a famous 17th century ''bir ...by its Gaelic name of "Thernatraigh", pronounced much the same way as the English name.
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• George VI Sound
  '''George VI Sound''' or '''King George VI Sound''' is a long sea strait in the [[British Antarctic Territory]] separating the mainland of [[Palmer ...r Land]], with the island to the west and the [[English Coast, Palmer Land|English Coast]] of Palmer Land to the east. Various lakes are found adjacent to the
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• Walcott, Norfolk
  ...he Anglo-Saxon 'cot' meaning 'cottage, hut, shelter or den'.<ref>'Guide to English Place Names', Nottingham University, online [http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/m ...0 BC the North Sea was first connected to the English Channel via a narrow strait. Eventually there were wide inter-tidal estuaries around Norfolk,<ref>Shenn
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• Aitcho Islands
  [[File:Cecilia-Island.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cecilia Island from English Strait]] ...]]. These islands lie on the west side of the north entrance to [[English Strait]], which separates [[Greenwich Island]] from [[Robert Island]], situated be
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• Carroll Inlet
  ...r ice-bound strait in the [[British Antarctic Territory]], lying off the [[English Coast]]. It is 40 nautical miles long and 6 nautical miles wide, trending
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• Sound of Islay
  The '''Sound of Islay''' is a narrow strait between the islands of [[Islay]] and [[Jura]] in the [[Inner Hebrides]] and ...etwixt it and Duray, lyes ane ile, callit in Erische Leid Ellan Charne, in English the iyle of Earne".<ref>Monro (1549) "Earne Isle" No. 56</ref>
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• Coppermine Peninsula
  The peninsula lies between [[English Strait]] to the west and [[Carlota Cove]] to the east. It is linked to the penins ...ula and of Robert Island and thus the north-west entrance point of English Strait.
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• Huby, West Riding
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• Drake Passage
  ...isbn = 978-1-844-13762-6|page=46}}</ref> This incident demonstrated to the English that there was open water south of South America.<ref name="Martinic2019">{
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