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• Eday
  ...sed only where the isthmus has been a "route for the movement of goods and/or boats from one coast to another".<ref>Waugh (2010) p. 545</ref> ...ently around the rocky coast, is from the Norse ''gjá'' and means a gully or a narrow and deep cleft in the face of a cliff.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geo|ur
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• South West Coast Path
  ...ath are maintained by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], which owns parts of the coast. ...uth West Coast Path crosses have special status, either as a National Park or one of the Heritage Coasts.
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• Livingston Island
  ...forms the sheltered harbour of [[Port Foster]] entered by a single narrow passage known as [[Neptune's Bellows]]. ...est to [[Renier Point]] in the east, its width varying from 3 miles at the neck between [[South Bay, Livingston Island|South Bay]] and [[Hero Bay]] to 21 m
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• Tintagel Castle
  ...ounded by the Atlantic rollers and joined to the mainland only by a narrow neck of rock, into which steps have been cut. Here on the island stand the ruin ...going back to the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth in his mythical (or satirical) account of British history, the ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' de
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• Carrick-a-Rede
  '''Carrick-a-Rede''' or '''Carrickarede''' is an island on the wild, rocky north coast of [[County ...ned and maintained by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. In 2009 it had 247,000 visitors. The bridg
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• Maiden Castle, County Durham
  ...e hill, to the edge of the cliff or scar. The earth fence closes the whole neck of land, and is in length one hundred paces, forming the south-west side of .... It may have been at the northern end, where there is a gap in the ditch, or at the extreme southern end, but the area has been disturbed by landscaping
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• Avebury Stone Circle
  ...y is owned and run by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient ...on by archaeologists. Instead, they began the construction of large wooden or stone circles, with many hundreds being built across Britain and Ireland ov
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• Warkworth Castle
  ...et. The castle was built at the south end of the town, guarding the narrow neck of the loop. A fortified bridge also defended the approach to the town.<ref ...ompete with John of Gaunt, who rebuilt the nearby [[Dunstanburgh Castle]], or with the House of Neville, a family becoming increasingly powerful in the n
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• Ness of Brodgar
  '''Ness of Brodgar''' is the thin neck of land in the west of [[Mainland, Orkney]] between two lochs, the [[Loch o ...unearthed."] Edinburgh. ''The Scotsman''. Retrieved 16 August 2009.</ref> or "palace".<ref name=Turnbull>{{cite news|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/n
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• Thames and Medway Canal
  ...px|The canal's route is close to the dashed line of the railway across the neck of the peninsula. It joins the River Thames at Gravesend (north-west) to th ...ester Canal'''. It was originally some seven miles long and cut across the neck of the [[Hoo peninsula]], linking the [[River Thames]] at [[Gravesend, Kent
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• Grand Western Canal
  ...emes to alleviate the hazards and delays of coastal sailing ships making a passage around [[Land's End]] to get between the [[Bristol Channel]] and the [[Engl ...s, Somerset|Wells]] and [[Axbridge]], to [[Uphill]].<ref name=hadfield-9/> Nothing further came of the plan until the 1790s, when various canal engineers were
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• Oakerthorpe
  An underground passage is found in the bottom of the cellar in the Peacock Inn: local legend insis ...ut, the horse reared, and the rider was thrown to the ground, breaking his neck.
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