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• East Lothian
  ...fford and North Berwick and from Aberlady to Dunbar it is represented by a great thickness of volcanic rocks consisting of tuffs and coarse breccias in the ...ounty emerges early in history; the early twelfth century Charters of that great reformer King David I refer to grants in ''Hadintunschira'' (and variant sp
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• Banff
  ...ver was finally tamed by the seven arched bridge completed in 1799 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been built in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The ...le-arch bridge spans the river Deveron. The river Deveron is known for its great fishing for salmon and trout.
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• Perth
  |picture=St. Matthew's Church and Smeaton's Bridge.jpg ...y). The collection of mediæval bells is the largest to have survived in [[Great Britain]].
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• River Tay
  [[File:St. Matthew's Church and Smeaton's Bridge.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Tay in Perth]] ...of Tay]], where it opens up into an arm of the [[North Sea]]. Despite its great length, the river is contained entirely within [[Perthshire]]. Indeed, the
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• Allertonshire
  *[[Great Smeaton]] ([[Hornby, Allertonshire|Hornby]] township, part)^* ^*: Remainder of Hornby in [[Langbaurgh Wapentake]]; Great Smeaton township in [[East Gilling]].<br />
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• Great Ouse
  ...Ouse - Offord D'Arcy - geograph.org.uk - 1547792.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Great Ouse at Offord Darcy]] ...6-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch 1200x900.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Great Ouse after Brownshill Staunch, near Over, Cambridgeshire]]
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• Bow Back Rivers
  The rivers have been subject to change over centuries, with Alfred the Great diverting the river in 896 to create a second channel, and Queen Matilda br ...es |Russell |p=35}}</ref> and by the sixth edition of "Inland Waterways of Great Britain", published in 1985, they were referred to as Bow Back Rivers.<ref>
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• Bow Creek
  ...sing it.<ref>{{harvnb |Boyes |Russell |1977 |pp=14–16}}</ref> During the great plague of 1665, bargemen on the river continued to supply food to the popul Because of the importance of the river as a navigation, the engineer John Smeaton was asked to survey it and to suggest how it could be improved in 1765. He
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• Gifford
  ...''Hobgoblin Hall'' featured in the poem "Marmion" by Walter Scott.<ref>ed Smeaton, Oliphant, ''Poems of Scott'' - ''Marmion: The Host's Tale'', London</ref> *Burke, John, ''History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland - Volume 3'', London, 1836: page 434/5
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• Donaghadee
  ...d 1785 by the landlord, Daniel Delacherois, probably with the help of John Smeaton, the distinguished civil engineer who had apparently made earlier more elab ...ation for excellence extends far beyond the shores of Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Today it is known internationally - having performed on stage, rad
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• River Witham
  ...in a long loop from the south to the north and again to the south to see a great deal of that county. ...ere constructed to prevent flooding by the sea, and this culminated in the Great Sluice, which was constructed in 1766. It maintained river levels above Bos
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• River Ouse, Sussex
  ...ame for rivers in Great Britain, of which the most famous example is the [[Great Ouse]] running through several shires from the [[Midlands]] to [[East Angli John Smeaton (in 1766) and William Jessop (in 1787) advised on the navigation.<ref>Thoma
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• Forth and Clyde Canal
  ...canal boat on one canal enters the gondola, which is then closed, and the great wheel turns, moving the gondolas up and down each to the other canal. Ridin ..., ''A Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain'', Longman, Rees Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1831</ref></blockqu
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• Basingstoke Canal
  ...stoke-canal.org.uk /> and was completed on 4 September 1794. Engineer John Smeaton and his assistant William Jessop worked on the canal, along with Benjamin H ...ers in boat handling <ref name=greatdaysofthecanals>{{cite book |title=The Great Days of the Canals |author=Anthony Burton |page=169 |ISBN=0-7153-9264-6}}</
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• Coalisland Canal
  ...ts transport made it considerably more expensive than coal imported from [[Great Britain]]. The owners of the mines were mainly based in Dublin, and the fir ...ced, and following advice from the civil engineers William Jessop and John Smeaton in 1773, various changes were made, including counterbalancing the boats. S
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• Birmingham Canal Navigations
  ...methwick locks: the Smethwick Engine. When the summit became too busy John Smeaton designed a scheme where it was lowered by 18 feet to the Wolverhampton Leve ...ook |last=Foster|first=Richard|title=Birmingham New Street. The Story of a Great Station Including Curzon Street. 1 Background and Beginnings. The Years up
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• Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
  John Smeaton was the engineer employed by the Birmingham and Fazeley, but work did not s ...that when all the links were completed in 1790, it immediately generated a great deal of freight traffic. This created problems, as the flights of locks at
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• BCN Main Line
  ...h and wharf (now built upon) originally extended north of, and parallel to Great Charles Street. The 1773 Paradise Street Branch split off at Old Turn Junct ...x at Spon Lane. Water was brought from purpose-built reservoirs: Smethwick Great Reservoir (now built upon, holding 1514 locks' worth of water), another sma
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• Plymouth Hoe
  ...he Hoe and indeed up its northern slopes, the bulk of the Hoe is still the great division to seaward. [[File:Smeatons Lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Smeaton's Tower, as re-erected on Plymouth Hoe]]
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• Langbaurgh Wapentake
  ...he northern coast of the county, including [[Middlesbrough]], [[Easby]], [[Great Ayton]], [[Guisborough]], [[Marske-by-the-Sea]], [[Maltby, North Riding|Mal The wapentake took its name from the hamlet of [[Langbaurgh]], near Great Ayton.<ref>{{cite book|
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