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  • ...|work=United Kingdom Census 2001|accessdate=2008-11-28}}</ref> During the peak summer season the resort's population swells to around 200,000.<ref><cite>T ...The Marine Spa, also carried out various therapies such as Seaweed Baths, Needle, Doche showers, Hot and cold water baths and electric shock treatment. Band
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  • The highest point of the island is Diana's Peak at 2,684 feet. ...rocks and islets off the coast, including: Castle Rock, Speery Island, The Needle, Lower Black Rock, Upper Black Rock (south), Bird Island (southwest), Black
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  • |picture=Tangra-Great-Needle.jpg [[File:Zograf.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Zograf Peak]]
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  • ...astest-expanding towns in the West Country, with a population projected to peak at around 16,000 by 2012. The Lansdowne Park housing development (completed ...ument - situated close to the summit of Cherhill Down, a 125&nbsp;ft stone needle with views of Calne and the surrounding landscape.
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  • ...derated by the Gulf Stream. The island has a mountainous core, the highest peak on the island being [[Ben More (Mull)|Ben More]], which reaches {{convert|9 *''Eye of the Needle'' (1986)
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  • ...story of The Needles at Alum Bay]</ref> The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck. ...night'' and ''Black Arrow'' rocket engine tests from 1956–71. During the peak of activity in the early 1960s some 240 people worked at the complex, while
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  • ...nd eventually gain the summit. Using this route is known as "threading the needle".<ref name="Bardwell"/> The easiest descent is by the same route – howeve ...fissured, with climbing routes caving up through it. The Summit and South Peak are the remnants of a ridge which has visibly slipped away into Glen Croe,
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  • ...nd great prominence the summit has some of the best panoramic views of any peak in the area. All of the main fell groups are laid out, serried ranks of hil ...mbers. The route is rough but allows the ordinary hillwalker to view Napes Needle, Sphinx Rock and many of the famous climbing locations. The north traverse
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  • '''Hathersage''' is a village in the [[Peak District]] in [[Derbyshire]]. It lies slightly to the north of the [[River ...haft of a plain early Saxon cross.<ref>Neville T. Sharpe, ''Crosses of the Peak District'' (Landmark Collectors Library, 2002)</ref>
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  • ...cut into it. Its name is said to derive from the French ''aiguille'' for a needle or ''aigle'' an eagle.<ref>{{citation |title=Aigin Stone |url=http://www.ca ...013}}</ref> The crag was featured in the 1913 rock climbing guide to the [[Peak District]], 'Some Gritstone Climbs' by John Laycock. One walking route is a
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  • ...lley is dominated by the [[Great Gable]] and [[Scafell Pike]], the highest peak in the Lakes, which, along with Scafell, Kirk Fell and Yewbarrow, surround ...k climbers as the home of British rock climbing. A classic route is Nape's Needle on [[Great Gable]].
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  • ...in [[Leyton]] is used for storage and servicing of Eurostar trains and off-peak berthing of Class 395 Southeastern high-speed trains. ...ng's Cross is still an unzipping ground for low-rent prostitution, a crack needle in the side of civilised London.}}</ref>
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  • ...ins of [[Wester Ross]]. South-west is '''the Prison''', a pyramidal rocky peak which can look like a mediæval keep when viewed from the right angle - the
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  • ...ndinense'', p. 273</ref> Coverdale, an anti-vestiarian, was Rector at the peak of the vestments controversy. In March 1566 Archbishop Parker caused great ...n eleven and twelve at night, there happened in the house of one Briggs, a Needle-maker near St Magnus Church, at the North end of the Bridge, by the careles
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  • ...luding Lieutenant-General William Augustus Johnson MP.<ref>{{cite web|last=Needle|first=Rex|title=Village history|url=http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/ ...]], and despite its name, is not on the top of its 'hill', which reaches a peak a mile west towards [[Careby]]. It is about half a mile from the A6121 Bour
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  • ...onnected by a short saddle to a sharp-peaked rock-cored ice formation. The peak is heavily glaciated and crevassed, surmounting [[Huntress Glacier]] to the This mountain was known to the nineteenth-century sealers who named it 'Peak of Frezeland', in association with the original name 'Frezeland' given to t
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  • |name=Needle Peak |picture=Needle-Peak.jpg
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