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  • ...coast-line of 65 miles. Aberdeenshire has a detached part locally situate in Banffshire south of [[Banff]]: Forming the northern part of the Banffshire ...especially [[Braemar]], which contains the greatest mass of elevated land in the [[British Isles]]. The Dee valley has sandy soil, the [[River Don, Aber
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  • ...outh the [[Sidlaw Hills]], between them [[Strathmore]], and the coastlands in the east. ...rtrayed, though he portrayed it on the bloody fields of [[Dunsinane]] in [[Perthshire]]).
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  • ...ingshire and Lanarkshire. This detached part was annexed to Dumbartonshire in the 14th century when the earl of Wigtown, to whom it belonged, became heri ...the beauties of Loch Lomond. The Cumbernauld area is more moderate in its hill, the [[Campsie Fells]] rising above Cumbernauld.
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  • The '''County of Inverness''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the heart of the [[Highlands]]. It stretches includes from the east coast ...rkshire]], swallowing the heart of the Highlands. It is 4,211 square miles in area, of which more than one-third belongs to the [[Hebrides]].
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  • ...bloody episodes of British history, in those long ages when war was known in these lands. ...one found within the parish of [[Logie, Perthshire|Logie]], surrounded by Perthshire; the other formed by the ancient parish of [[Alva]], taking a sizeable chun
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  • ...' ({{lang|la|Vallum Aelium}}, "Aelian Wall") was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain. It ran across the width of [[Great Britain]] from the [[Solw ...less evident today. Hadrian's Wall was the most heavily fortified border in the Empire, a defensive fortification against the wild Caledonian tribes pr
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  • ...ergwyngregyn''', known also as '''Aber''', is a village of historical note in [[Caernarfonshire]]. Under its historic name of '''Aber Garth Celyn''' it w ...ough beyond the dual carriageway is a fine view over the broad Lavan Sands in the [[Menai Strait]].
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  • {{Infobox hill |name=Dunsinane Hill
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  • ...le:Roman Roads in Britannia.svg|right|thumb|250px|Roman roads: Dere Street in blue]] ...tent, to the Roman fort at [[Inchtuthil]], north of the [[River Tay]] in [[Perthshire]]. It stretches therefore, perhaps some 226 miles.
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  • {{Infobox hill |county 2=Perthshire
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  • ...rthshire]], about 7 miles south of [[Crieff]]. It is named from the parish in which it lies: [[Ardoch]]. ...tain, and is one of the best-preserved series of Roman military earthworks in the whole Empire.
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  • Dalry is a small town and parish in the [[Garnock Valley]] in northern [[Ayrshire]]. [[Drakemyre, Ayrshire|Drakemyre]] is a northern subu ...e of three concentric round walls can be found on the summit of Carwinning Hill to the North of Dalry, west of the B784 to [[Largs]].
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  • '''Urquhart Castle''' stands in ruin beside [[Loch Ness]] in the midst of [[Inverness-shire]], within the [[Highlands]]. The castle is o ...swimming spot of the elusive, or illusive, Loch Ness Monster. The castle in its day had no road running by it, and was approached from the west and def
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