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• Yell
  A cross slab from North Yell may also be from this period, but it has since been lo ...ttp://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm061.htm Keightley, Thomas ''The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countrie
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• Snowdon
  ...148 feet. It begins by skirting [[Llyn Teyrn]] before climbing slightly to cross the causeway over [[Llyn Llydaw]].<ref name="Marsh"/> It follows the lake's ...been associated with the Tylwyth Teg (fairies), including a version of the fairy bride legend.<ref>{{harvnb|Roberts|1995|pp=38–39}}</ref>
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• Skegness
  ...poster to advertise excursions to the resort, the first being from King's Cross, London on Good Friday 1908, leaving London at 11.30 am.<ref name="srok">De ===Fairy Dell===
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• Swaffham
  ...a result of this prosperity, the town has a large market place. The Market Cross here was built by George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford and presented to the t ...-texts.com/neu/eng/meft/meft21.htm The Pedlar of Swaffham.] ''More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1894)''. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref>[http://
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• Skye
  ...as been the seat of Clan MacLeod since the 13th century. It contains the ''Fairy Flag'' and is reputed to have been inhabited by a single family for longer ...ffs of Duirinish boast Mountain Avens and Fir Clubmoss. Minginish produces Fairy Flax, Cats-ear and Black Bog Rush. There is a fine example of Brachypodium-
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• Aberdaron
  Two stone bridges, Pont Fawr and Pont Fach, built in 1823, cross the Afon Daron and Afon Cyll y Felin in the centre of Aberdaron. Beyond the ...shment and pilgrims often had to wait weeks in the village for a chance to cross the treacherous waters of Bardsey Sound.
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• Lundy
  ...a". The bottle and letter are on display at the Portledge Hotel at [[Fairy Cross]], in Devon. The ''Jenny'' was a three-masted schooner reputed to be carryi ...ef> Harman's son, John Pennington Harman was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross in Kohima, India in 1944. There is a memorial to him at the VC Quarry on Lu
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• Salisbury Plain
  [[File:Artemia salina 5.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Fairy Shrimp ''Chirocephalus diaphanus'']] ...rous pools created by repeated tank movements along the earth tracks which cross the chalk grassland.<ref name=en />
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• Ulster Way
  ...h Lee. From Bolaght it is downhill to {{map|H306781|Kilmore Robinson}}, a "Fairy Water Bog" - one of the largest areas of intact active bogs in Ulster and ...]], and now open to the public. Then it descends to [[Portballintrae]] to cross the [[Bush River]]. Just upstream is the village of [[Bushmills]], famous f
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• Penwortham
  ...h archaeological evidence showing that the ford at Middleforth was used to cross the Ribble. Penwortham was listed in the [[Domesday Book]] as "Penverdent". Higher Penwortham has an old legend linked to it. The Fairy Funeral seen on the road through Penwortham Wood, was thought to forecast d
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• Doune
  ...age centre and mercat cross.JPG|left|thumb|200px|Village centre and mercat cross]] ...he" meaning land of the fairy. Fairy dancing parties were known of on the Fairy Knowe, a hillock on the right bank of the Ardoch Burn, half a miles east of
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• Sidlaw Hills
  ...h ''hlaw''. The element 'sid' is apparently the Gaelic ''sidhe'', meaning 'fairy' or 'sacred', referring to the prehistoric cairns still visible on various ...of the action in ''Macbeth'', and also the Eassie Stone, a carved Pictish cross slab-stone (now situated in a ruined church in the village of [[Eassie]]).<
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• Glastonbury Abbey
  ...s. Above it, under the covering stone, according to Giraldus, was a leaden cross with the unmistakably specific inscription ''Hic jacet sepultus inclitus re ...e taken the trouble to add a few more details in this present chapter. The fairy-tales have been snuffed out, and the true and indubitable facts are made kn
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• Palace of Westminster
  ...tary use, however, and the gift was rejected. Proposals to move to Charing Cross or St James's Park had a similar fate; the allure of tradition and the hist ...spire with a crown and flowers and a cross. It's elegant and grand and has fairy tale qualities."
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• Dublin Mountains Way
  ...y Waymarker.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Waymarker on the Dublin Mountains Way at Fairy Castle]] [[File:Fassaroe Cross at Rathmichael.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Fassaroe Cross, Rathmichael Wood]]
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• Ballyshannon
  ...al]], located at the southern end of the county where the N3 and N15 roads cross the [[River Erne]]. It claims to be the oldest town in Ireland.<ref>{{cite ...1100 and 1400. This site yielded numerous artefacts including silver long cross pennies and halfpennies dating from the reign of Henry III (1251–1276) an
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• Cashel, County Tipperary
  ...s eminence is crowned by a group of remarkable ruins. Originally known as Fairy Hill, or Sid-Druim, the Rock was, in pagan times, the ''dun'', or castle, o *Stephen Garvin, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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• Chelsea Bridge
  ...06|p=130}} It was expected that with the opening of the park the volume of cross river traffic would increase significantly, putting further strain on the d {{quote box|width=22em|salign=right|quote=A fairy structure, with its beautiful towers, gilded and painted to resemble light
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• Borrisokane
  ...It was committed by a ''Flying Column'' led by Sean Gaynor at [[Kylebeg]] Cross, between Borrisokane and [[Cloughjordan]] and resulted in the deaths of fou ...hegowna (''Irish: Cnoc Sí Úna'') translated literally means 'The Hill of Fairy Una'. In Spenser's poem, Úna, the personification of the "True Church" tra
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• Tallaght
  ...ross the countryside of Ireland can be found random mounds of earth. Such "fairy rings" are avoided by farmers, as they would rather leave them than risk th ...m among all the Fianna to be her husband, told him to come with her on her fairy horse, after which they rode over the land to the sea and across the waves
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