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  • ...[[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Little Cumbrae]]. Although Arran encompasses most of the shire's land, it has a sparse population and the main settlements are o ...the county, only four islands are inhabited ([[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Isle of Arran|Arran]], [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Holy Isle, Buteshire|Holy Island]])
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  • ...own of Donegal, although Lifford serves as the county town. The population of the county was 161,137 according to the 2011 census. ...e nearby city of Londonderry form the main economic axis of the north-west of Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/16086 |title=De
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  • ...s Office] Census 2011, "Population Classified by Area", Table 1 Population of each province, county and city with actual and percentage change, 2006 and ...tle-2012.JPG|250px|right|thumb|The [[River Shannon]] runs through the city of [[Limerick]], with King John's Castle.]]
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  • | picture caption = Millport Bay across to the [[Isle of Arran]] ...the island of [[Great Cumbrae]], an island of [[Buteshire]] in the [[Firth of Clyde]]. The town is four miles south from the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry s
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  • ...sports Centre and an 18-hole golf course which sweeps almost to the summit of the isle. The road around the island road is much favoured for family cycle ...n the island. From here an orientation point which indicates the locations of surrounding landmarks.
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  • |picture caption=Cliffs north west of Da Smaalie, Foula ...permanently inhabited islands. The island has been owned since the opening of the 20th century by the Holbourn family.
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  • ...d to the west of [[Mainland, Shetland|Shetland Mainland]] and with an area of 3.2&nbsp;square miles), Papa Stour is the eighth-largest island in Shetland ...cial Scientific Interest and the seas around the island are a Special Area of Conservation.
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  • |picture=Interior of St Nicholas, Haxey - geograph.org.uk - 465800.jpg |picture caption=Interior of St Nicholas Church, Haxey
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  • [[File:Source of the River Clyde.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Source of the River Clyde in the Lowther hills]] ...rsphairn Hills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Rhinns of Kells Range from Cairnsmore of Carsphairn Hills]]
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  • ...ght|thumb|350px|Over the Silver Flowe from the Dungeon Hills on the Rhinns of Kells in winter]] ...f them. The Galloway Forest Park is here, an area of some 300 square miles of largely uninhabited wild land, managed by the [[Forestry Commission]].
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  • ...nshire]], on the shore of [[Luce Bay]] in the southern part of the [[Rhins of Galloway]], looking over the [[North Channel]] towards the [[County Antrim| ...asses through the village. The only other street is Ardwell Park, a street of new houses.
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  • ...f [[Wigtown]]. The parish of Kirkinner is bounded on the east by the bay of Wigtown, along which the parish extends for about three miles, and on the n ...een cut through living rock to the E of the entrance, and there are traces of a counterscarp bank on the NW.
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  • ...in the west of the [[Machars]] peninsula in [[Wigtownshire]], and a parish of the Machars also. The parish covers 22,000 acres, and is approximately 10 m ...within Mochrum parish, as does the village of Port William and the clachan of Elrig.<ref>http://www.portwilliam.com/history.htm</ref>
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  • ...''' is a market town in [[Ayrshire]]. In 2001 the village had a population of 1,407. ...plands]] from the [[Central Lowlands]], as Dalmellington sits at the issue of a river from the uplands into Dalmellington Moss plain, and geology has in
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  • '''Rhu''' is a village on the east shore of the [[Gare Loch]] in [[Dunbartonshire]]. The traditional spelling of its name was ''Row'', but it was changed in the 1920s so that outsiders wou
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  • ...west (beyond which lie the [[Galloway Hills]]) and the dale of the [[Water of Ken]] in the east, beyond which are the [[Scaur Hills]]. ...y local folk, for whom the hills have a special place in the folk memories of the communities. There are also many more communities immediately around th
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  • ...in south-western [[Perthshire]], lying on the [[River Forth]] at the base of Craigmore, which rises to 1,378 feet above the village. The parish's wester ...r the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the [[Trossachs]] pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the T
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  • |picture=The Doon and old fort West of Twynholm.jpg |picture caption= A hill fort west of Twynholm
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  • ...'' is a small village in the [[Lammermuir Hills]] in [[Berwickshire]], and may be found near [[Reston, Berwickshire|Reston]]. James Hutton, the founder of modern geology, farmed two miles to the west. A James Hutton Trail was esta
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  • ...iles south-west of [[Inverness]] and a mile and a half east of the village of [[Drumnadrochit]]. ...osure or Upper Bailey, sited on higher ground, comprises the scant remains of earlier buildings.
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