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  • ...antic Ocean and on the east by St. George's Channel and the Irish Sea. The River Barrow forms its western boundary. The Blackstairs Mountains form part of t ...w Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1363920.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Bridge over the River Barrow at New Ross.]]
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  • ...to be part of the part of the London commuter belt. It is lies along the [[River Thames|Thames]], comfortably 16 miles away from central [[London]], and bor ...y]]. ''Lower Sunbury'', colloquially known as Sunbury Village, borders the river Thames and makes up the southern portion of the town. This area is largely
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  • '''Falmouth''' is a port town on the [[River Fal]] on the south coast of [[Cornwall]]. It has a total resident populatio The name Falmouth comes from the river Fal but the origin of the river's name is unknown.
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  • ...and in the eleventh century absorbed the English lands as far south as the River Tweed. ...er, all the English kingdoms from the [[English Channel|Channel]] to the [[River Forth|Forth]] were unified under King Athelstan, to whom all the Kings of B
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  • ...ight]], [[Hampshire]]. Cowes stands on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina facing the smaller town of [[East Cowes]] on the east Bank. The two ...led built during the reign of Henry VIII on the east and west banks of the river to dispel a French invasion, referred to as cowforts or cowes. They subsequ
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  • ...Devon, and almost certainly an important port at [[Bideford]] or on the [[River Taw]] in [[Barnstaple]]. This was probably because of the increasing threat ...lose to Lundy because of the dangerous shingle banks in the fast flowing [[River Severn]] and [[Bristol Channel]], with its 32-foot tide, the second highest
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  • ...thumb|250px|The Kelvin flowing under the Clydeside Expressway and into the River Clyde]] The '''River Kelvin''' is a right-bank tributary of the [[River Clyde]]; entering the tidal Clyde in [[Glasgow]].
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  • ...es on the [[River Gipping]], which is joined by its tributary, the [[River Rat]], to the south of the town.
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  • ...h of the county. Clare is on the north bank of the [[River Stour, Suffolk|River Stour]] which divides Suffolk from [[Essex]]. It is a place with more hist <blockquote>'On the South side wee saw the river Stour, which immediately from the verie spring head spreadeth a great Mere
    21 KB (3,534 words) - 22:35, 30 April 2018
  • ...s were lower flowed down from [[Portsdown]] into the Solent, itself then a river. The city of [[Portsmouth]] lies on the east side of the harbour, on [[Port *[[Burrow Island]], also known as Rat Island, closer to the harbour entrance.
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  • [[File:River Gipping.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Bridge over the River Gipping]] The '''River Gipping''' is the source river for the [[River Orwell]] in [[Suffolk]]. Its name is lent to the village of [[Gipping]] an
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  • ...ended into several neighbouring counties, bordered on the west along the [[River Erewash]] and the Forest of East Derbyshire. When the [[Domesday Book]] was The [[River Idle]], a tributary of the [[River Trent|Trent]], is formed in Sherwood Forest from the confluence of several
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  • '''Cleeves Cove''' or '''Blair Cove''' is a solutional cave system on the [[River Garnock#Dusk Water|Dusk Water]] in [[Ayrshire]], to be found close to the t ...length of around 500 feet. The caves are now well above the level of the [[River Garnock|Dusk Water]] and lie close to Cleeves Farm and Blair Mill on the Bl
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  • ...o be the "village that time forgot". It is in Redesdale, the dale of the [[River Rede]], just below the Catcleugh Reservoir, an within the [[Redesdale Fores ...is known to be nocturnal and is thought to be a relative of the naked mole-rat.
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  • ...ver Shuttle]], which rises in Avery Hill Park and flows east to join the [[River Cray]]. ...bridge Harriers.In 2003, the park was re-landscaped as a wetland area. The River Quaggy was allowed to flow above-ground in the area, for the first time in
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  • ...]] and close to that of [[Meath]]. Its location on the confluence of the [[River Liffey]] and the [[Rye Water]] has marked it as a frontier town historicall ...ublin, built at the furthest point where longships could be rowed up the [[River Liffey|Liffey]]. Its status as an outpost of Dublin continued for centuries
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  • ...mland is mostly in intensive arable use and except for areas alongside the river, some of which is liable to flooding, is classified as being of Grade-2 qua ...the second Saturday of June, is a mixture of traditional games (splat the rat, lucky golf, target soccer, coconut shy, crockery smash) and the usual stal
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  • ...three cathedrals or acting cathedrals which can be seen clearly from the [[River Liffey]]. ...moved elsewhere: the law courts to the newly built [[Four Courts]] on the river front, and Parliament to Chichester House in Hoggen Green, into the buildin
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  • ...Bay had a long-running problem with silting, notably at the mouth of the [[River Liffey]]. After years of primitive dredging, an attempt to maintain a clear ...o the Liffey from 6 feet to 16 feet. Much of the silt now scoured from the river course was deposited on the North Bull, and a true island began to emerge,
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  • ...ver Brede East Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 154907.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Brede west of Winchelsea]] ...ction of the [[River Tillingham]], and then on to the [[River Rother (Rye)|River Rother]] at [[Rye]]. It takes its name from the village of [[Brede, Sussex
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