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  • *[[Whitewisp Hill]] (2,110 feet.) *[http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/LCA/clackmannanshire.pdf ASH Consulting Group 1998. Clackmannanshire landscape character assessment. Sco
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  • The number of hill tarns and little lakes is very great, considerably more than 200 being name The forests consist chiefly of oak, Scotch fir, birch, ash, mountain-ash (rowan), holly, elm, hazel and Scots poplar, but there are also great plant
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  • ...say over 3,000 tons of burned seaweed were produced each year to make soda ash, bringing in £20,000 to the local economy.<ref>Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 36 .... Hoy is the second largest of the Orkney Isles and [[Ward Hill, Hoy|Ward Hill]] at its northern end is the highest elevation in the archipelago. The [[Ol
    51 KB (7,781 words) - 21:39, 29 January 2016
  • ...des. The summit ridges provide excellent scrambling, and are popular with hill walkers and mountaineers. However, like many ridge routes, there are few e ...ent times a considerable extent of native woodland, principally pine, oak, ash and alder.
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  • |picture caption=Brandon Hill above Graiguenamagh [[Image:BrandonHill116.jpg|thumb|left|Brandon Hill at [[Graiguenamanagh]]]]
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  • ...''Portal tombs'' (sometimes called dolmens) exist at Ballybrittas (on Bree Hill)<ref name="TombBallybrittas">{{cite web |url= http://www.megalithomania.com ...n of 1798 was fought, during which significant battles occurred at Vinegar Hill ([[Enniscorthy]]) and [[New Ross]]. The famous ballad Boolavogue was writte
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  • By the library is a small mound, an Anglo-Saxon moot hill named "Seclow Mound". This has inspired some of the new town's street name ...ton Keynes (interviews) |last=Kitchen |first=Roger |authorlink= |coauthors=Hill, Marion |year=2007 |publisher=Living Archive |location=Milton Keynes |isbn=
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  • ...me, coming usually from the Old English ''æsc ford'', menaing just that: "Ash (tree) ford". ...cy without more to back them. Philpot believed ''Essetesford'' stood for "ash tree growing near a ford" (''æsc æt þe forde''), while Lampard, a 16th-c
    13 KB (2,110 words) - 20:45, 27 January 2016
  • ...h and Waterloo Road), followed a few years later by a section between Snow Hill and Bilston Street. However, the final section between Bilston Street and S
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  • ...arts several times by storms. The most recent example was on 7 March 1962 (Ash Wednesday), when large parts of the western end of the promenade, the nearb ...in Penzance in a number of sites, including Lescudjack Castle, an Iron Age hill fort and settlement within the current Penzance parish boundaries. The tow
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  • ...at anchor or shelling the cable station. A two-gun shore battery at Cross Hill, above Georgetown, fired on the submarine. The guns scored no hits but the # [[Cat Hill, Ascension Island|Cat Hill]] (the US base)
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  • *Red Ash Colliery, Cilfynydd ...mined collieries there were many coal levels and trial shafts dug into the hill sides overlooking the town from Cilfynydd, Graig, Graigwen and Hafod. The A
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  • {{Infobox hill The name ''Snowdon'' is from the Old English for "snow hill", a name appearing as ''Snawdun'' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1095.<re
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  • Species of tree and shrub include Ash, Downy Birch, Hazel, Hawthorn, Yew and Rowan. In the woods shrubs such as W ...eighboring [[Wensleydale]]. The Romans mined lead in the hills on Greenhow Hill overlooking Appletreewick until AD&nbsp;410.<ref name="Wharfe-Litton"/> Aft
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  • ...e view of the destruction of Plymouth can be had from the top of Garibaldi Hill in Isles Bay. Relatively quiet since early 2010, the volcano continues to ...July 1997, after pyroclastic flows burned much of what was not covered in ash]]
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  • ...tern scarp. It is a woodland of deciduous trees; a rich mixture of beech, ash, oak, birch and others. Pavis Wood itself is enclosed though open to the p ...of poorly drained beech, oak, ash and birch grades to a beech hanger with ash and wych elm on the steepest part of the escarpment.<ref>Aylesbury Vale Dis
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  • ...inewoods remains separated by much open land and is close to [[Ash, Surrey|Ash]]. ...rds that the manor covered large parts of what is now Normandy, as well as Ash; Normandy though was not mentioned by name as the name not being known unti
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  • ...Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 March 2008.</ref> Dun Ringill is a ruined Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle ...Cats-ear and Black Bog Rush. There is a fine example of Brachypodium-rich Ash woodland at Tokavaig in Sleat incorporating Silver Birch, Hazel, Bird Cherr
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  • ...t is Oiseval ('east fell'), which reaches 951 feet, and Mullach Mòr ('big hill summit') at 1,185&nbsp;feet is due west of Conachair. Ruival ('red fell') 4 ...lead and other pollutants, caused by the use of seabird carcasses and peat ash in the manure used on the village fields. This occurred over a lengthy peri
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  • ...|Chiltern]] valleys, which were once covered in dense forests of oak, elm, ash, hazel and juniper. ...buildings in the Bushey area have been used in the filming of BBC's Grange Hill and also for various other programmes, such as Family Business. Students fr
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