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  • ...stitute for Advanced Studies |location=Dublin |page=7}}</ref> In the early Middle Ages, southern County Antrim was part of the Kingdom of [[Ulster]], ruled b ...way to Ireland as a boy and was worked as a slave for seven years near the hill of Slemish, until he escaped back to [[Great Britain]].
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  • ...ned in the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' ("Book of the Taking of Ireland"). The hill site of [[Emain Macha]] (now Navan Fort near the city of [[Armagh]]) is nam ...rigatuke, Lislea and Camlough mountains, to rolling drumlin country in the middle and west of the county and finally flatlands in the north where rolling fla
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  • ...ate the county itself and which became ''bailieries'' of the county in the Middle Ages. ({{kmloutline|AyrshireDistricts}}) The three districts, from north to Kyle in the middle includes the royal burgh of Ayr and is an area that is partly mountainous.
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  • ...bsp;feet above sea level, are Coombe Hill near [[Wendover]] and Haddington Hill in Wendover Woods. The Early Middle Ages brought war, the later Middle Ages calm agricultural prosperity. In the 17th century the Buckinghamshire
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  • ...under Kenneth MacAlpin. They experienced Norse incursions during the early Middle Ages and then became part of the Kingdom of Scotland in the 13th century. |Windy Hill
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  • The modern town stands up the hill, climbing steeply 230&nbsp;feet above the harbour onto limestone cliffs. Th ...old came to Scarborough and fought with the townsmen. He went up onto the hill which was above the town and built a huge pyre. Then with pitchforks they f
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  • Caithness was heavily settled by the Norse in the early Middle Ages, along with [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]], and they appear to have drive ...occupation. These include the Grey Cairns of Camster, the Stone Lud, the Hill O Many Stanes, a complex of sites around Loch Yarrows and over 100 brochs.
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  • ...ills]], [[Rivey Hill]] above [[Linton, Cambridgeshire|Linton]], [[Rowley's Hill]] and the [[Madingley Hills]]. |S=Slip Inn Hill, SW of [[Odsey]]
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  • ...ges at several locations in Cheshire, such as Maiden Castle on [[Bickerton Hill]], [[Helsby]] Hillfort and Woodhouse Hillfort at [[Frodsham]]. Cheshire's western border was unsettled into the Middle Ages. The Domesday Book records Cheshire as having two complete hundreds a
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  • *[[Whitewisp Hill]] (2,110 feet.) ...chils themselves, an elevated ridge starting on the west, runs through the middle of the county, widening gradually until it reaches the eastern boundary, an
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  • # [[Crag Hill]], 2,753&nbsp;feet ...t signs on the landscape are far older; the Castlerigg stone circle on the hill above [[Keswick]] has been dated to the Neolithic or early Bronze Ages.
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  • A Middle Paleolithic Acheulian hand axe found near [[Hopton, Derbyshire|Hopton]] is ===Middle Ages===
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  • |picture=Bindon hill from the east.jpg |picture caption=Bindon Hill from Flowers Barrow
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  • ...the beauties of Loch Lomond. The Cumbernauld area is more moderate in its hill, the [[Campsie Fells]] rising above Cumbernauld. *[[Doune Hill]] (2,409 feet)
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  • ...e:Burnswark Hill - geograph.org.uk - 19873.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Burnswark Hill, Annandale]] ...he Liddel forms its own dale, [[Liddesdale]], in [[Roxburghshire]] and its middle reaches mark the county boundary with Cumberland, while the Lyne is wholly
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  • ...half is amongst the [[Lammermuir Hills]], dividing the Lothians from the [[Middle Shires]]. Several peaks of Lammermuir exceed 1,500 feet, and here is the [ ...the parish of Prestonkirk), [[North Berwick Law]] (612 feet), and Garleton Hill (590 feet, to the north of Haddington).
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  • ...s the lower reaches of the [[River Avon, Somerset|River Avon]] through the middle of [[Bristol]], and its old course, the Floating Harbour. ...ave rise to numerous tanneries and to an important shipbuilding trade. The hill district, besides fostering agricultural pursuits, gradually absorbed the w
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  • ...permarkets (Sainsbury's and Scotmid) located at the bottom of Corstorphine hill (Clermiston Road). [[Corstorphine Hill]] is one of the so-called "Seven Hills of Edinburgh". Queen Margaret Univer
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  • ...[[Hereford]] and [[Leominster]] the population has not increased since the Middle Ages. The hills are rugged green pasture, with deep river valleys along whi [[File:Dorstone Hill - geograph.org.uk - 45985.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Dorstone Hill]]
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  • The number of hill tarns and little lakes is very great, considerably more than 200 being name ...including the Estuarine Lower Oolite sandstones, shales and limestones and Middle Oolite Oxfordian rocks are found in the north of this island; there is also
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