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  • ...road expanse to the south and more enclosed Loch Ryan to the north, at the head of which is [[Stranraer]] and further north [[Cairnryan]], two ferry ports ...Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas, thus placing all Galloway under one lord. Under Douglas's lordship the laws of Galloway, which had obtained from ancient times and
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  • ...ion of an enduring mystery which occurred in December 1900, when all three lighthouse keepers vanished without trace. ...org.uk/ourlights/history/flannan.htm "Flannan Isles Lighthouse "] Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 23 March 2008.</ref> or Bothain Chlann 'ic Phaill.<ref nam
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  • ...eless telegraphy link was established by employees of Marconi between East Lighthouse on this island to Kenmara House in Ballycastle on 6 July 1898.<ref>{{cite w ...ne. (Other stories record that the legendary spider was seen by Sir James Douglas and recounted to Bruce.)
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  • ...ys been an assembly point for maritime trade. Around 1610 the area at the head of Loch Ewe, today known as [[Poolewe]], was urbanised around an iron furna In 1911 a 70 foot lighthouse was built on the promontory between Gairloch and Poolewe.
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  • ...lage in [[Cumberland]], on the [[Irish Sea]] coast just south of [[St Bees Head]], the most westerly point of the county. ...t seabird colony on this coast too. St Bees Lighthouse stands on the North Head.
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  • {{Infobox lighthouse |name=Black Head Lighthouse
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  • ...thouse (Kinnaird Castle) and the Wine Tower.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Kinnaird Head]] '''Kinnaird Head''' ({{lang|gd|An Ceann Àrd}} is a headland in the north-east of [[Aberdeen
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  • The term was used by historian William Douglas Simpson, who described the promontory between the [[Moray Firth]] and the [ ! [[Kinnaird Head Lighthouse|Kinnaird Castle]]
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