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  • ...shire]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the county is largely rural and agricultural. ...here the remarkable [[Chesil Beach]] stretches for 18 miles to the cliffs of the “[[Jurassic Coast]]” as far as [[Lyme Regis]], close to the border
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  • |name=Isle of Wight |picture=Isle of Wight coastline.jpg
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  • ...vide shelter to many large ships and which is also blessed by a scattering of attractive islands. ...d War the town was one of the main departing points for the D-Day landings of the Normandy Invasion.
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  • [[File:Green Island Poole Harbour.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Green Island, one of the islands within Poole Harbour]] ...hipping channel is 25 feet deep.<ref>[http://www.jersey-poole-ferry.co.uk/ Jersey Poole Ferry website]</ref>
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  • ...primarily known as a seaside resort, its long beaches lapped by the waters of the [[English Channel]]. ...de resort and still is today. It had an estimated population of 97,992 as of 2009.
    35 KB (5,481 words) - 07:14, 19 September 2019
  • |name=Isle of Man |picture=Maughold Village. Isle of Man. - geograph.org.uk - 31912.jpg
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  • |map=Herm - Bailiwick of Guernsey.svg |map caption=Location of Herm
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  • ...al.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Aerial view of Sark - Little Sark is on the right of the image]] ...section of the island of [[Sark]]. The island of [[Brecqhou]] on the west of Sark, would have been a peninsula like this within recorded history. There
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  • |name=Jersey |bailiwick=Jersey
    30 KB (4,553 words) - 08:12, 26 September 2015
  • ...sland of [[Inverness-shire]] in the [[Outer Hebrides]]. It lies just south of [[South Uist]], to which it is now connected by a causeway which was opened [[Barra]] lies to the south, and since the opening of the causeway, Eriskay has been the ferry terminal for sailing between South
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  • ...eriences one of the largest tidal ranges in the world with a maximum range of about 30 ft.<ref>[http://stoneship.org.uk/~steve/tides.html Swansea Bay and ==Beaches==
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  • ...y sandbanks of the foreshore. It opens into the [[North Sea]]. The shore of the bay is within the 'Holkham National Nature Reserve'; the largest nation ..., but access to the former harbour was stopped by drainage and reclamation of the marshes between the coast and the shingle ridge which started in the 17
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  • {{territory|Jersey}} ...y]] and like its big sister it is fringed with wide, sandy beach. The two beaches being separated only by a rocky outcrop and joined at low tide. The two bay
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  • ...from "Bryn" Brythonic and Modern Welsh for a hill and it has a population of 635. ...[[Bristol Channel]], on which stands [[Brean Down Fort]], marking the end of [[Weston Bay]].
    3 KB (469 words) - 17:59, 24 September 2022