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• Limestone Way
  [[File:Geograph-2859926-by-Andrew-Hill.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Limestone Way near Peak Forest]] The '''Limestone Way''' is a long-distance bridleway primarily in [[Derbyshire]], which runs
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• Limestone Knowe
  |name=Limestone Knowe |picture=Limestone Knowe - geograph.org.uk - 522127.jpg
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• Limestone Link
  [[File:Limestone Link (geograph 2723220).jpg|right|thumb|300px|Limestone Link at Dolebury Warren]] The '''Limestone Link''' is a 36-mile long-distance footpath in [[Somerset]] and [[Glouceste
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• County Antrim
  ...gth by 1½ in breadth, 7 miles from the coast, and of similar basaltic and limestone formation to that of the mainland. It is partially arable, and supports a s
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• County Armagh
  ...magh itself is built; this outlier is probably Permian. The Carboniferous Limestone beneath it and around it is red-brown instead of grey, and is famous for it
  13 KB (2,082 words) - 18:16, 10 November 2015
• Scarborough
  ...stands up the hill, climbing steeply 230 feet above the harbour onto limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected
  21 KB (3,356 words) - 12:12, 4 November 2019
• Menai Strait
  ...ngular box spans, but after a disastrous fire in 1970, which left only the limestone pillars remaining, it was rebuilt as a steel box girder bridge, and now car
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• Derbyshire
  ...</ref> Evidence of later, nomadic tribes of later ages is found around the limestone caves on the Nottinghamshire border, traces from the Upper Paleolithic and ...urther north. They were drawn to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. Romans settled throughout the county and forts were buil
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• Devon
  ..., and in particular, Torbay. They found some unusual marine fossils in the limestone at Lummaton Quarry and it was this discovery that lead to the time period b
  20 KB (3,166 words) - 15:53, 10 April 2021
• Dorset
  ...calcareous grassland supporting sheep.<ref>Cullingford (P.91)</ref> These limestone areas include a band of chalk which crosses the county from south-west to n ...missioners|accessdate=11 April 2011}}</ref> The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the [[Isle of Purbeck]] to the south, lie atop Western Europe's la
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• Dunbartonshire
  ...ferous Limestone series; the Hurlet Limestone and Hurlet Coal of the lower limestone group being prominently developed. ...bracing the seams in the middle or coal-bearing group of the Carboniferous Limestone series.
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• East Lothian
  ...ists of a middle group of sandstones, shales, coals and ironstones, with a limestone group above and below. ...orth Berwick, Tynninghame and elsewhere there are stretches of blown sand. Limestone is worked at many places, and hematite was formerly obtained from the Garle
  13 KB (1,906 words) - 20:54, 6 December 2016
• Glamorgan
  ...localities. To the south east is the [[Vale of Glamorgan]], an undulating limestone plateau,<ref name="Conduit, p.9">Conduit, p.9</ref> mainly comprising farml ...eological structure of Old Red Sandstone gives way to carboniferous rocks, limestone and millstone grit.<ref name="Conduit, p.9"/> In the 19th century, industri
  14 KB (2,036 words) - 11:59, 9 June 2023
• Inverness-shire
  ...o chocolate-coloured sandstone and flags, with the shaly series containing limestone nodules known as the fish bed from the abundance and importance of its foss
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• Kincardineshire
  ...tes and a higher, more micaceous and schistose series with grits; bands of limestone occur in these rocks near Banchory. Besides the numerous minor flexures the
  11 KB (1,747 words) - 12:58, 4 November 2016
• Lancashire
  ...de and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, characterised by its limestone pavements and home to the [[Leighton Moss]] nature reserve.
  10 KB (1,426 words) - 19:03, 9 June 2023
• Northumberland
  ...landscape. Either side of the Whin Sill the county lies on Carboniferous Limestone, giving some areas of karst landscape.<ref name="geology">Northumberland Na
  22 KB (3,198 words) - 09:29, 2 March 2016
• Orkney
  ...is moorland and the island's main industries have been peat extraction and limestone quarrying.
  51 KB (7,781 words) - 21:39, 29 January 2016
• Lancaster Canal
  The canal had always suffered problems with leakage due to limestone fissures in the bed, and in 1939 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway,
  17 KB (2,677 words) - 17:51, 22 September 2017
• Ross-shire
  ...us band, serpulite grit, Durness dolomite and marble, Durness dolomite and limestone: but these are not always visible at any one spot. So great has been the
  22 KB (3,583 words) - 09:40, 14 April 2018
• Rutland
  ...e shire is marked by numerous pretty villages characterised by cottages of limestone and ironstone, with roofs thatched or of Collyweston stone slate.
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• Shropshire
  ...Edge]] is another significant geographical and geological landmark; a long limestone escarpment which runs 15 miles between [[Craven Arms]] and [[Much Wenlock]]
  21 KB (3,153 words) - 16:33, 24 February 2022
• Somerset
  ...into types determined by the underlying geology. These landscapes are the limestone karst and lias of the north, the clay vales and wetlands of the centre, the ...st of the [[Somerset Levels]] rise the [[Mendip Hills]], a modest range of limestone hills. The main habitat on these hills is calcareous grassland, with some g
  42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016