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• Athlone
  ...y/plnm/placenamesA.php]. Local historians describe it as ''The Ford of the Moon''</ref> ...swimmers. The lake shore is easily accessed from Coosan Point, and Hodson Bay. The town is also home to Lough Ree Yacht Club. The promenade is also a pop
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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 fishin [[Marazion]] lies on the other end of Mounts Bay, punctuated by the tidal island of [[St Michael's Mount]].
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• Mount's Bay
  ...t and Mount's Bay - geograph.org.uk - 862924.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount]] ...Bay - geograph.org.uk - 1121358.jpg|right|thumb|250px|View across Mount's Bay from Mousehole]]
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• Livingston Island
  ...at the neck between [[South Bay, Livingston Island|South Bay]] and [[Hero Bay]] to 21 miles between [[Botev Point]] to the south and [[Williams Point]] t ...[[Desolation Island, South Shetland Islands|Desolation Island]] in [[Hero Bay]] and [[Zed Islands]] to the north.
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• North Antrim Coast Path
  ...Benbane Head, Bengore Head, Portnabrock and Port Moon, an old fishermen's bay a mile from the end of the path and where the cliffs begin to become lower. ...action west of the Giant's Causeway. The two miles of sand at [[White Park Bay]] are just east of Duneverick.
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• Hebrides
  ...997) states that the oldest rocks in Europe have been found "near Gruinard Bay" on the Scottish mainland. Gillen (2003) p. 44 indicates the oldest rocks i ...(which means "far to the north") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years. This may ha
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• Clare, Suffolk
  ...he 'New Draperies', lighter and cheaper cloths called 'bays and says'. 'A bay was lighter and finer than modern baize.... A say was a fine durable cloth, ...the rest being done with arrows, stones, poles and whitewash. The Sun and Moon still survive.<ref>Hatton op. cit. IV p 86-88</ref>
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• Outer Hebrides
  ...e Moon. There are relatively small outcrops of Triassic sandstone at Broad Bay near Stornoway. The [[Shiant Isles]] and [[St Kilda]] are formed from much
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• Greenwich Island
  |[[File:Greenwich.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Breznik Heights, with Half Moon Island in the foreground]] ...p://www.cep.aq/apa/aspa/sites/aspa144/ Protected area Chile Bay (Discovery Bay)].
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• Galway Bay
  [[File:GalwayBayMap.png|thumb|300px|right|Map of Galway Bay and environs.]] ...and there are numerous small islands within the bay. The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows; the North Sound (
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• Damsay
  ...ses to only {{convert|11|m|ft|0|x}} above sea level. It is situated in the Bay of Firth north of the [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] near [[Finstown]]. Near ...e being warned of an attack by Sweyn Asleifsson and the presence of a full moon his men were taken by surprise by the attack by his co-rulers and Erlend wa
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• St Bees Priory
  ...owthwaite.<ref>Hay D, ''Whitehaven an illustrated history''", pub Michael Moon, Whitehaven 1979. ISBN 0-904131-21-1 ...was moved from under the tower east into a new chancel which occupied one bay of the monastic choir. The tower was re-built in the Romanesque style to th
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• Cadgwith
  In 1898, a new lifeboat named ''Minnie Moon'' arrived in Cadgwith. She was 39 feet long with a beam of 9 feet 6", with The ''Minnie Moon'' holds the record for the greatest number of lives saved from one rescue:
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• Ederney
  ...n arches were built-up and the building modernised into a two-storey three-bay building.<ref>Samuel Lewis, [http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/e.php ''A ...set in a circle. The arrangement is supposed to be related to the seasons, moon and sun. The site reportedly dates from the Bronze Age.<ref>[http://www.ede
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• Harlyn
  ...on the north coast of [[Cornwall]], sitting a little inland from '''Harlyn Bay''' three miles from [[Padstow]] and about one mile from [[St Merryn]]. ...name 'Harlyn' I from the Cornish ''ar-Lyn'', meaning 'At a lake'. Harlyn Bay in contrast was know in Cornish as ''Porth Lys'', meaning 'Court Cove'.
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• Horsmonden
  *Simon Willard, (d 1676), founded the town of Concord in Massachusetts Bay, was born in Horsmonden *William Moon (1818–94), teacher and philanthropist, was born in Horsmonden
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• Polkerris
  ...e [[Gribben Head|Gribben]] promontory and on the east side of [[St Austell Bay]]. It is two miles west of Fowey and three miles east of [[St Austell]]. ...Menabilly Estate from the late 16th century, and the estate built the half-moon quay in 1775 to help the seine netting company.<ref name=simper/> The seine
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• Saba Rock
  ...erates a boat shuttle from Saba Rock to Bitter End Yacht Club and Leverick Bay Marina. File:Moon Rise Saba Rock Island British Virgin Islands.JPG|Full moon rising over Saba Rock
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• Beer, Devon
  '''Beer''' is a village and parish in [[Devon]], facing [[Lyme Bay]], a little over a mile west of [[Seaton, Devon|Seaton]]. At the 2011 Censu ...the Open University that could be used in future space settlements on the Moon and Mars to produce oxygen and break down rocks.
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• Knocknarea
  ...also been suggested,<ref name="mv"/> as has ''Cnoc na Ré'' ("hill of the moon"). The area around Sligo Bay is rich in pre-historic remains, and shares similar monuments and natural s
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• Edinburgh Hill
  The point forms the northwest side of the entrance to [[Moon Bay]].
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• Bantry Bay
  [[File:Bantry Bay Glengarriff co Cork Ireland.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Bantry Bay by Glengarriff]] ...y''' is a capacious bay deeply indenting the coast of [[County Cork]]. The bay runs approximately 22 miles from north-east to south-west into the open [[A
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• Huron Glacier
  [[File:Huron.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Huron Glacier, with Moon Bay, Half Moon and Greenwich Islands behind]] ...ds]] in the [[British Antarctic Territory]], flowing eastwards into [[Moon Bay]] on the island's south coast. It is about five miles long and just over tw
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• Hero Bay
  [[File:Saedinenie.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hero Bay]] ...the [[South Shetland Islands]] in the [[British Antarctic Territory]]. The bay is 17 miles wide, indents for six miles the northern side of the island.
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• New Haw
  ...ord's "Cherry Cottage" in the 1964 science-fiction film ''First Men in the Moon'', based loosely on the H.G. Wells novel of the same title published in 190 ...ears, the pre-war brick-built central two-story clock tower with large two-bay workshop behind survive in good condition and make an interesting local lan
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• Blagdon Lake
  ...the [[M5 motorway]] and emptying into the [[Severn Estuary]] in Woodspring Bay, downstream from [[Clevedon]] and west of the village of [[Kingston Seymour [[File:Moon over Blagdon Lake (geograph 3873857).jpg|thumb|250px|The lakeside with tree
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• Haroldswick
  ...me of the village is from the Old Norse ''Haraldsvík'', meaning 'Harald's bay'. Later legends associate it with the Norwegian king Harald I, known as Har ...mall boats of Shetland, the Unst Boat Haven, is located at the head of the bay and is open to visitors from May to September. The beach is frequently popu
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• Grangetown, Cardiff
  Adjacent to the city's [[Cardiff Bay]] area, Grangetown is experiencing a period of gentrification and improveme ...town was attacked in the Cardiff Blitz. On 2 January 1941, during the full moon, around 100 German aeroplanes raided Cardiff for over 10 hours.
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