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  • ...The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the ''Oil Capital of Europe'' or the ' ...d textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. In consequence, Aberdeen has become a major world centre for engineering exper
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  • ...e whole length of the island of [[Great Britain]] between two extremities; in the southwest and northeast. The distance by road is 874 miles and takes m ...uthwestward (but not southern or western) point of Great Britain, situated in western [[Cornwall]] at the end of the [[Penwith|Penwith peninsula]].
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  • ...h]], 30 miles east of [[Inverness]], perhaps best known for its appearance in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''Macbeth''. ....<ref>[http://www.forresinbloom.co.uk/scotland-in-bloom-awards.htm "Forres in Bloom"] ''ForresinBloom.co.uk''</ref>
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  • ...aight line for over sixty miles. The Great Glen has its whole length in [[Inverness-shire]] apart from at the extreme western seaward end, where [[Morvern]], part of ...arently predating the world’s current continents, and can be traced also in North America.
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  • |county=Inverness-shire The '''Culloden Battlefield''', by [[Culloden]] in [[Inverness-shire]], is the field on which ''the '45'', the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, was b
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  • ...ed and maintained by the local authority areas through which they pass, or in one case by its commercial sponsor. ...may be thousands older than that. Most others are new-minted, established in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries but created largely from pre-existi
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  • ...fort, Sustrans were aided by a £42.5&nbsp;million National Lottery grant. In 2005 it was used for over 230 million trips. ...s, disused railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and traffic-calmed routes in towns and cities.
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  • ...({{wmap|55.9411|-4.3180}}), north of [[Glasgow]], to [[Fort William]] in [[Inverness-shire]] ({{wmap|56.8215|-5.0941}}). There is a rather hefty amount of hill walki ...Stirlingshire]], [[Dunbartonshire]], [[Perthshire]], [[Argyllshire]] and [[Inverness-shire]].
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  • ...in length, from [[Fort William]] in [[Inverness-shire]] to [[Cape Wrath]] in [[Sutherland]], the north-westernmost point of mainland [[Great Britain]]. The Trail visits four or five Highland counties: [[Inverness-shire]], [[Ross-shire]], [[Cromartyshire]] and [[Sutherland]], and the Glenfinnan
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  • {{county|Inverness-shire}} ...to [[Inverness]] in the northeast, covering 79 miles. The trail was opened in 2002.
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  • ...Way (2) - geograph.org.uk - 236722.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Speyside Way in the Abernethy Forest]] ...d [[Inverness-shire]]. It is one of four designated 'Long Distance Routes' in [[Scotland]].
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  • [[File:Looking SW in the upper Glen Loyne - geograph.org.uk - 868749.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Glen ...ng route of 540 miles running the length of Scotland from [[Kirk Yetholm]] in [[Roxburghshire]] to [[Cape Wrath]] on the wild north coast of [[Sutherland
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  • ...air Loch|Loch Gairloch]] in [[Ross-shire]]. A popular tourist destination in the summer months, Gairloch has a golf course, a small museum, several hote ...lway station is located at [[Achnasheen]]. The nearest mainland airport is in [[Inverness]].
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  • {{county|Inverness-shire}} ...d Way and terminates in Aviemore in the eastern part of the [[Highlands]], in the [[Cairngorms]].
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  • ...mes]] between [[Greenwich]] in [[Kent]] on the south bank and [[Millwall]] in [[Middlesex]] on the north. ...uch to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks, who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC's Bridges Committee responsible for t
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  • The route was completed in 2005, and is now designated as one of 'Scotland's Great Trails' by NatureSc *Partick station in [[Glasgow]]: {{wmap|55.870|-4.309}}
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  • ...rmer Highland Railway between [[Grantown-on-Spey|Grantown]] and [[Forres]] in [[Morayshire]]. ...closed in 1965. The route of the line was reopened as a long distance path in 2005. It is listed as one of 'Scotland's Great Trails' by NatureScot, and l
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