Search results

Create the page "Hole Rock" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

• Scarborough
  ...in the First World War. Both bays have popular sandy beaches and numerous rock-pools at low tide. ...he quieter winter months when Scarborough is often seen as a peaceful bolt-hole from cities such as Leeds and Bradford. Confidence in the hospitality indus
  21 KB (3,356 words) - 12:12, 4 November 2019
• Glamorgan
  ...e45">Wade (1914), pg45.</ref> The coast at the Vale of Glamorgan is mainly rock bound, while from Porthcawl to Swansea Bay the seaboard houses sandy shores ...s rock face is pierced in places by caverns, the most notable being Culver Hole<ref name="Wade54"/> a bone cave near Port Eynon Point.
  14 KB (2,036 words) - 11:59, 9 June 2023
• Somerset
  ...sandstone of the west.<ref>{{cite web | title=Somerset Geology | work=Good Rock Guide | url=http://www.heleigh.eclipse.co.uk/Somerset_Good_Rock_Guide.doc | ...etwork of caves stretches beneath the Mendips, including the famous Wookey Hole, and within the caves are underground rivers. Gorges carve through the hil
  42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016
• County Laois
  ...e. An early Christian community lived at Dun Masc or Masc’s fort, on the Rock of Dunamase. Kingdom of Leinster. In Laois, the fortress on the Rock of Dunamase was part of the dowry of the Irish princess Aoife, who was give
  16 KB (2,332 words) - 09:56, 22 June 2017
• Ballycastle, County Antrim
  ...are easily accessible by a footbridge. Look out for the face carved in the rock! Some say its the face of a man carved by a woman who was forbidden to marr * Golf: Ballycastle Golf Club has a full 18-hole, part links, part parkland, championship course. It is one of the four cour
  8 KB (1,293 words) - 15:11, 28 September 2010
• North Berwick
  ...sible from North Berwick, for example Fidra, The Lamb, Craigleith and Bass Rock. ...s and their guano that cover much of its surface. The seabirds of the Bass Rock themselves can be observed at close range through remote cameras operated f
  6 KB (1,051 words) - 18:20, 17 January 2018
• Isle of Wight
  ...e recently-revived Isle of Wight Festival, which, in 1970, was the largest rock music event ever held.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redfunnel.co.uk/island The Isle of Wight is made up of a wide variety of different rock types ranging from Early Cretaceous times (around 127&nbsp;million years ag
  23 KB (3,704 words) - 17:07, 29 November 2016
• Kirkby Stephen
  ...ntastic shapes, collectively known as the Devil's Grinding Mill or Devil's Hole.
  8 KB (1,231 words) - 12:40, 29 June 2017
• Buckley, Flintshire
  ...m ''bucc leag'', "buck meadow", though a Welsh for ''bwlch y clai'' ("clay hole") has been suggested.<ref name=buckleysociety>{{Cite document|url=http://ww Buckley was a popular location for mining, as there were many faults in local rock formations that allowed seams of coal to be mined directly from the surface
  10 KB (1,566 words) - 18:03, 6 September 2014
• Great Cumbrae
  ...nd today and in that role it has the National Watersports Centre and an 18-hole golf course which sweeps almost to the summit of the isle. The road around ...17 feet above sea level at "The Glaidstone" - a large, naturally occurring rock perched on the highest summit on the island. From here an orientation point
  11 KB (1,743 words) - 12:36, 5 April 2011
• Llandrindod Wells
  ...s above the lake.) Horse races (and, later, air displays) were held on the Rock Ddole meadow beside the river. In 1893 the Archdeacon with responsibility ...s centre attached to the local comprehensive school. A hotel in the scenic Rock Park has not survived, and various cafes and restaurants have come and gone
  10 KB (1,577 words) - 08:17, 20 October 2017
• Farnham
  ...er. The Anglican divine, Augustus Montague Toplady, composer of the hymn ''Rock of Ages'' (1763, at Blagston) was born in Farnham in 1740 - a plaque now ma Farnham also has a public golf course, a nine-hole, par-three golf course, found next to the cricket ground directly behind Fa
  27 KB (4,407 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
• Lossiemouth
  ...ns micro-crystalline quartz. Also in the calcareous band of the Stotfield rock there is limestone with nodular masses of flint, crystals of galena (lead o *Moray Golf Club, Stotfield Road. The club has two 18 hole courses.
  24 KB (3,913 words) - 16:56, 23 August 2011
• Turks and Caicos Islands
  ...nds. In 2004 marine archaeologists rediscovered a wreck, called the "Black Rock Ship", that subsequent research has suggested may be that of the ''Trouvado ...as the historic Cockburn harbour and the natural phenomenon of the boiling hole.
  16 KB (2,429 words) - 11:30, 5 April 2020
• St Kilda
  ...he is to stand on his left foot, having the one half of his sole over the rock, and then he draws the right foot further out to the left, and in this post ...as ''Taigh Dugan'' (Dugan's house). This is little more than an excavated hole under a huge stone with two rude walls on the sides. The story of its creat
  68 KB (10,888 words) - 15:23, 23 August 2019
• Cheddar Gorge
  ...merate of the Keuper. Evidence for Variscan orogeny is seen in the sheared rock and cleaved shales. In many places weathering of these strata has resulted ...r tare (''Vicia tenuissima''), dwarf mouse-ear (''Cerastium pumilum'') and rock stonecrop (''Sedum forsteranum'') also occur in the gorge.<ref name="sssi"/
  17 KB (2,602 words) - 16:55, 1 July 2015
• Bardsey Island
  ...40-acre sheep farm on the island, they had 1,100 applications.<ref>Abigail Hole, Etain O'Carroll and John King, ''Lonely Planet : Wales'', 2007, Lonely Pla In 2009 Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog became the first electric rock group to play on the island, as part of S4C's "Bandit" series.
  19 KB (3,011 words) - 13:22, 16 March 2017
• Betws-y-Coed
  ...-y-Pair Falls are in the centre of the village (also the site of a 53 hole rock cannon), and a mile upstream are the famous Swallow Falls.
  8 KB (1,202 words) - 14:34, 25 December 2017
• Aberdaron
  ...dd Penarfynydd is one of the best exposures of intrusive, layered, igneous rock in the British Isles.<ref name="penarfynydd">{{cite web |url=http://www.hen ...f> The coastal rock is softer here, and the sea has been free to erode the rock and boulder clay to form sand, resulting in the spacious beach of Porth Nei
  34 KB (5,405 words) - 21:19, 15 April 2016
• Trefriw
  ...at significance to Trefriw, its growth, and subsequent history. Subsequent rock blasting in the 19th century downstream at Tal-y-cafn, and dredging, enable The village once had a 9-hole golf course, on land between Cowlyd Road and Crafnant Road, on the slopes u
  19 KB (3,088 words) - 14:07, 9 February 2012