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• Aberdeenshire
  ..., entering by a natural arch, boils up violently in stormy weather. Buchan Ness is the most easterly point of Scotland. In the 12th and 13th centuries some of the great Aberdeenshire families arose, including the earl of Mar (c. 1122), the Lesl
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• Caithness
  ...lar [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] at the north-eastern tip of [[Great Britain]], bounded to the north and the east by the sea and to the west by ...ile nearby John o' Groats at the north-easterly corner of the shire and of Great Britain is the end of the traditional measure of the length of Britain: [[L
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• Inverness-shire
  ...aratively small and fertile tracts in the north on both sides of the river Ness, in several of the glens and on the shores of some of the sea lochs, the co Through the midst of the county runs the [[Great Glen]], in a straight line from coast to coast in which is a series of loch
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• Kincardineshire
  ...ing in the vicinity of St Cyrus, the coast from below Johnshaven to Girdle Ness presents a bold front of rugged cliffs, with an average height of from 100 ...he Old Red Sandstone consists of flags, red sandstones and purple clays in great thickness; these are followed by coarse conglomerates, well seen in the cli
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• Lincolnshire
  The Lincolnshire Fens are a part of the Great Fen which spreads over the lands around [[the Wash]] in Lincolnshire and No ...into the nineteenth century when its port began to prove ill-suited to the great ships of the age.
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• Norfolk
  ...ch had grown to become the second largest city in England, but in 1665 the Great Plague again killed around one third of the population.<ref>Anon, 2002. [ht ...s. The draft report of their research was leaked to the press, who created great anxiety by reporting that Natural England plan to abandon a large section o
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• Orkney
  ...ake Mound near the Ring of Brodgar and various islands sites such as Tofts Ness on Sanday, Orkney|Sanday and the remains of two houses on Holm of Faray.<re ...own in 1603, and united in 1707, bringing Orkney within the one Kingdom of Great Britain and opening new opportunities for Orcadians. In the 17th and 18th
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• Ross-shire
  ...ly be separated by the watershed between the eastern and western coasts of Great Britain. The Isle of [[Lewis]] is part of the [[Outer Hebrides]], and cont ...h]]. This coast is nearly 311 miles long. The chief capes include Tarbat Ness on the east coast, and Coigach, Greenstone Point, Rubha Reidh, [[Redpoint]]
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• Yell
  ...of Britain" and has a diverse bird life including breeding populations of Great and Arctic Skuas.<ref>Gooders, J. (1994) ''Field Guide to the Birds of Brit [[File:Nessofsound.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Ness of Sound]]
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• Suffolk
  ...ternmost point of the United Kingdom; [[Lowestoft#Lowestoft Ness|Lowestoft Ness]], beyond which lies only the sea, empty of any further islands. The county is low-lying with few hills; the highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge in the very west of the
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• West Lothian
  ...an belt of the Central Lowlands, heavily affected by its being between the great cities of [[Edinburgh]] to the east and [[Glasgow]] to the west and by the ...an industrial town. The [[Antonine Wall]] ended here, at [[Kinneil]] by Bo'ness.
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• Counties of the United Kingdom
  ...ing George IV Intituled "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain and of the Increase or Diminution thereof" Enumeration Abstract Vol ...="padding-left: 0.5em;"|'''[[Norwich]]''', [[Cromer]], [[East Dereham]], [[Great Yarmouth]] (part), [[Hunstanton]], [[King's Lynn]]
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• Lerwick
  ...n in Norway to the east and [[Aberdeen]] to the south on the mainland of [[Great Britain]]. The town's name comes from Old Norse ''Leirvík'', meaning 'mudd Lerwick scarcely existed until the early 17th century. The ness on which it stands belonged to the proprietors of the large township of [[S
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• Inverness
  ...h]], its name coming from the Gaelic ''Inbhir Nis'' meaning ''mouth of the Ness''). Its position makes it a meeting place of trade routes by sea and by la ...uth of the [[River Ness]], which flows out from nearby [[Loch Ness]]. The Ness empties into the Inverness Firth, the south-western extremity of the [[Mora
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• Dumfries
  ...or near the mouth of the [[River Avon, West Lothian|River Avon]] near [[Bo'ness]]. ...he Marches maintains the tradition of an occasion that was, in its day, of great importance.
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• Wirral
  *[[Great Sutton]] *[[Ness, Cheshire|Ness]]
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• Windermere
  ...f>{{cite book|author=Daniel Defoe|title=A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain|year=1726}} "I must not forget Winander Mere, which makes the utmos ...ssie”, a creature described as similar to that alleged to inhabit [[Loch Ness]] in [[Inverness-shire]]. Recently mobile 'phone pictures show an undulatin
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• Great Britain
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• South Ronaldsay
  ...Ayre of Cara, by Churchill Barrier no. 4 (north), Grim Ness (east), Brough Ness, (south) and Hoxa Head, (west). The highest elevation is Ward Hill, which r ...of the known men and earls of that name. The island plays its role in the great tales of the Orkneyinga Saga, in particular whenever warriors or farmers sa
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• Great Glen
  ...hlands]] from coast to coast in a straight line for over sixty miles. The Great Glen has its whole length in [[Inverness-shire]] apart from at the extreme ...head of [[Loch Linnhe]]. It follows a large geological fault known as the Great Glen Fault. It bisects the [[Highlands]] into the [[Grampian Mountains]] to
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