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• Athlone
  ...y/plnm/placenamesA.php]. Local historians describe it as ''The Ford of the Moon''</ref> ...swimmers. The lake shore is easily accessed from Coosan Point, and Hodson Bay. The town is also home to Lough Ree Yacht Club. The promenade is also a pop
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• Penzance
  The town lies in the shelter of Mount's Bay facing south-east onto the [[English Channel]]. To the west lies the fishin [[Marazion]] lies on the other end of Mounts Bay, punctuated by the tidal island of [[St Michael's Mount]].
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• Mount's Bay
  ...t and Mount's Bay - geograph.org.uk - 862924.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount]] ...Bay - geograph.org.uk - 1121358.jpg|right|thumb|250px|View across Mount's Bay from Mousehole]]
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• Livingston Island
  ...at the neck between [[South Bay, Livingston Island|South Bay]] and [[Hero Bay]] to 21 miles between [[Botev Point]] to the south and [[Williams Point]] t ...[[Desolation Island, South Shetland Islands|Desolation Island]] in [[Hero Bay]] and [[Zed Islands]] to the north.
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• North Antrim Coast Path
  ...Benbane Head, Bengore Head, Portnabrock and Port Moon, an old fishermen's bay a mile from the end of the path and where the cliffs begin to become lower. ...action west of the Giant's Causeway. The two miles of sand at [[White Park Bay]] are just east of Duneverick.
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• Hebrides
  ...997) states that the oldest rocks in Europe have been found "near Gruinard Bay" on the Scottish mainland. Gillen (2003) p. 44 indicates the oldest rocks i ...(which means "far to the north") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years. This may ha
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• Clare, Suffolk
  ...he 'New Draperies', lighter and cheaper cloths called 'bays and says'. 'A bay was lighter and finer than modern baize.... A say was a fine durable cloth, ...the rest being done with arrows, stones, poles and whitewash. The Sun and Moon still survive.<ref>Hatton op. cit. IV p 86-88</ref>
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• Outer Hebrides
  ...e Moon. There are relatively small outcrops of Triassic sandstone at Broad Bay near Stornoway. The [[Shiant Isles]] and [[St Kilda]] are formed from much
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• Greenwich Island
  |[[File:Greenwich.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Breznik Heights, with Half Moon Island in the foreground]] ...p://www.cep.aq/apa/aspa/sites/aspa144/ Protected area Chile Bay (Discovery Bay)].
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• Galway Bay
  [[File:GalwayBayMap.png|thumb|300px|right|Map of Galway Bay and environs.]] ...and there are numerous small islands within the bay. The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows; the North Sound (
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• Damsay
  ...ses to only {{convert|11|m|ft|0|x}} above sea level. It is situated in the Bay of Firth north of the [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] near [[Finstown]]. Near ...e being warned of an attack by Sweyn Asleifsson and the presence of a full moon his men were taken by surprise by the attack by his co-rulers and Erlend wa
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• St Bees Priory
  ...owthwaite.<ref>Hay D, ''Whitehaven an illustrated history''", pub Michael Moon, Whitehaven 1979. ISBN 0-904131-21-1 ...was moved from under the tower east into a new chancel which occupied one bay of the monastic choir. The tower was re-built in the Romanesque style to th
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• Cadgwith
  In 1898, a new lifeboat named ''Minnie Moon'' arrived in Cadgwith. She was 39 feet long with a beam of 9 feet 6", with The ''Minnie Moon'' holds the record for the greatest number of lives saved from one rescue:
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• Ederney
  ...n arches were built-up and the building modernised into a two-storey three-bay building.<ref>Samuel Lewis, [http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/e.php ''A ...set in a circle. The arrangement is supposed to be related to the seasons, moon and sun. The site reportedly dates from the Bronze Age.<ref>[http://www.ede
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• Harlyn
  ...on the north coast of [[Cornwall]], sitting a little inland from '''Harlyn Bay''' three miles from [[Padstow]] and about one mile from [[St Merryn]]. ...name 'Harlyn' I from the Cornish ''ar-Lyn'', meaning 'At a lake'. Harlyn Bay in contrast was know in Cornish as ''Porth Lys'', meaning 'Court Cove'.
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• Horsmonden
  *Simon Willard, (d 1676), founded the town of Concord in Massachusetts Bay, was born in Horsmonden *William Moon (1818–94), teacher and philanthropist, was born in Horsmonden
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• Polkerris
  ...e [[Gribben Head|Gribben]] promontory and on the east side of [[St Austell Bay]]. It is two miles west of Fowey and three miles east of [[St Austell]]. ...Menabilly Estate from the late 16th century, and the estate built the half-moon quay in 1775 to help the seine netting company.<ref name=simper/> The seine
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• Saba Rock
  ...erates a boat shuttle from Saba Rock to Bitter End Yacht Club and Leverick Bay Marina. File:Moon Rise Saba Rock Island British Virgin Islands.JPG|Full moon rising over Saba Rock
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• Beer, Devon
  '''Beer''' is a village and parish in [[Devon]], facing [[Lyme Bay]], a little over a mile west of [[Seaton, Devon|Seaton]]. At the 2011 Censu ...the Open University that could be used in future space settlements on the Moon and Mars to produce oxygen and break down rocks.
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• Knocknarea
  ...also been suggested,<ref name="mv"/> as has ''Cnoc na Ré'' ("hill of the moon"). The area around Sligo Bay is rich in pre-historic remains, and shares similar monuments and natural s
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