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  • ...ounties of the United Kingdom|shire]] forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of [[Great Britain]], begirt by the seas to north and south, and divided fr ...n]]. There are two detached parts of Devon in Cornwall, both on the [[Rame Peninsula]], and one part of Cornwall in Devon, the "[[Cornish Patch]]" in [[St Budea
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  • ...ral and physical similarities, it lies inside the reach of the [[Kintyre]] peninsula and so might be better classed simply amongst the islands of the Firth. ...and there are populations of red squirrel, badger, otter, adder and common lizard. Offshore there are harbour porpoises, basking sharks and various species o
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  • |S=The [[Lizard]], [[Cornwall]] ...bmerged beneath the North Sea, cutting off what was previously the British peninsula from the European mainland by around 6500 BC.<ref name=gaffney>[http://live
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  • [[File:Lizard point cornwall.jpg|right|thumb|300px|By Lizard Point]] ...ingdom|most southerly point]] of the mainland of [[Great Britain]] is near Lizard Point at {{getmapecho|SW701115}}.
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  • [[File:LizardVillageCornwallUK.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Lizard village]] ...] in western [[Cornwall]], found at the very end of the peninsula close to Lizard Point itself. It is thus ten miles south of [[Helston]], and is the most s
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  • ...ite near [[Carloway]], small bands of intrusive basalt at Gress and in Eye Peninsula and some sandstone at Stornoway, Tong, Vatisker and Carloway, originally th ...nly the slow-worm which is merely mistaken for a snake. Actually a legless lizard, it is the sole member of its order present. The common frog may be found i
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  • ...riod of the deer rut in the autumn. The western point is the A'Bhrideanach peninsula, and to the southwest lie Wreck Bay, the cliffs of Sgorr Reidh and Harris B ...n Rum is the Palmate Newt and the only reptile native to Rum is the common lizard. Invertebrates are diverse and have been studied there since 1884, numerou
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  • ...is a town in [[Cornwall]], at the northern end of the [[The Lizard|Lizard Peninsula]], twelve miles east of [[Penzance]] and nine miles southwest of [[Falmouth ...d wildlife habitats<ref>Jean Lawman (1994) A Natural History of the Lizard Peninsula. Pool: Institute of Cornish Studies</ref>
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  • ...ttp://www.lizard-peninsula.co.uk/Welcome.html Cornwall Online - The Lizard Peninsula Guide]</ref> and was originally developed as a harbour of refuge, when this ...coves of [[Mullion, Cornwall|Mullion]], [[Kynance Cove|Kynance]] and [[the Lizard]].
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  • ...zard Point]] to [[Gwennap Head]] on the eastern side of the [[Land's End]] peninsula. Towards the middle of the bay (and probably the origin of the name) is [[S ...y is the biggest bay in Cornwall. The coast is approximately 42 miles from Lizard Point to Gwennap Head.
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  • '''Gunwalloe''' is a coastal village in [[Cornwall]], on the [[Lizard Peninsula]] three miles south of [[Helston]]. Within the parish is part of the [[Loe
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  • ...e on the [[The Lizard]] peninsula of [[Cornwall]], some two miles north of Lizard Point. The Cove and the surrounding coast are owned by the [[National Trust ...ea over thousands of years, are distinctive to Kynance Cove and the Lizard Peninsula.<ref>[http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-the
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  • '''Mullion Cove''' is a harbour in [[Cornwall]], on the [[The Lizard|Lizard peninsula]] in the southwest of the county. It belongs to the [[National Trust for Pl
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  • *Southernmost point &ndash; [[Lizard Point]], [[Cornwall]] at {{wmap|49.958678|-5.205551|zoom=14|name=Southernmo *Southernmost settlement &ndash; [[The Lizard|Lizard]], [[Cornwall]] at {{wmap|49.966942|-5.206031|zoom=14|name=Southernmost set
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  • The coast now shows the open and ancient landscape of the [[Penwith]] peninsula, along a series of wild headlands such as Clodgy Point, Hor Point, Pen Enys ...thouse at Lizard Point beckons the walker on. The path then continues to [[Lizard Point]], the [[Extreme points of the United Kingdom|most southerly point]]
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  • ...Rock) perched at the top of the middle outcrop of rocks on the small rocky peninsula. Millennia of erosion had balanced it so finely that one person could move ...><ref>Andrews; p 25</ref> There is a small rocky island off the Logan Rock peninsula called Horrace and another smaller granite island called Great Goular which
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  • '''Watch Croft''' is a prominent hill, 826 feet high on the [[Penwith]] peninsula in the very west of [[Cornwall]], overlooking the north coast of the county The summit is a rock tor. There are views across [[Mount's Bay]] to [[the Lizard]], south to Ding Dong Mine and north to Pendeen Watch.<ref>[http://www.oliv
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  • ...the [[Mendip Hills|Mendips]] to the east, [[Wales]] as far as the [[Gower Peninsula]] to the north, the [[Brendon Hills]] and [[Exmoor]] to the west, and the [ ...ss snake (''Natrix natrix''), slow worm]] (''Angula fragilis'') and common lizard]] (''Lacerta vivipara'').
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  • ...ge in [[Cornwall]], in the [[Meneage]] district of [[The Lizard|The Lizard peninsula]] south of [[Helston]]. It has a wider parish known as ‘Mawgan-in-Meneag
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  • ...llage and fishing port in [[Cornwall]], on the east side of the [[Lizard]] peninsula, about nine miles south of [[Falmouth]].
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