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  • ...th Riverhead to [[Tetney]]. Eight locks were incorporated to overcome the forty six feet differential in levels involved. Trade through the canal was brisk ...enturies and the town's skyline is dominated by St James Church, whose 295 foot spire makes it reputedly the tallest parish church in the United Kingdom.
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  • Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain as ''Isca Dumnoniorum'' and ...most of the visible structure is later. Most of its route can be traced on foot. A substantial Roman bath complex was excavated in the 1970s,<ref>{{cite we
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  • ...l breathtaking features, including "the Devil's Cauldron" and the 100&nbsp;foot White Lady Waterfall. ...by burning and slaughter, and afterwards they went about Land's End to the south and up into the Tamar's mouth and went up it until they came to Lydford, an
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  • ===Ramsey Forty Foot=== '''Ramsey Forty Foot''' is a hamlet lying due north of Ramsey on the road to Pondersbridge
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  • ...nty. The town is situated in the [[Garnock Valley]] approximately 20 miles south-west of [[Glasgow]]. It is situated on the crest of a hill and was known or ...own which harboured those whose intentions were not always lawful. In 1733 forty or fifty Beith smugglers sacked the Irvine Customs House, escaping with a r
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  • ...a port town in [[Lincolnshire]]. It is the major town of [[Holland]], the south-eastern part of that county. Boston lies astride the [[Greenwich Meridian]] ...at Sibsey, between the upland of East Lindsey and the three routes to the south of Boston:
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  • Eastbourne lies at the eastern end of the [[South Downs]] alongside the famous [[Beachy Head]] cliff. The sheltered position The [[South Downs]] dominate Eastbourne and can be seen from most of the town. The hil
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  • ...n the Board of Ordnance began a national military survey starting with the south coast of [[England]]. ...vey made by Roy in 1787. By 1810, one inch to the mile maps of most of the south of England were completed, but were withdrawn from sale between 1811 and 18
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  • Surrounding islands include [[Isay]], [[Longay]], [[Pabay]], [[Raasay]], [[South Rona|Rona]], [[Scalpay, Inner Hebrides|Scalpay]], [[Soay, Skye|Soay]] and [ ...inish]], [[Minginish]] and [[Strathaird]] to the west and [[Sleat]] in the south.
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  • ...general election. When he died in 1960, he was succeeded as MP by Michael Foot. ...the Festival Park Branded Outlet, a retail outlet comprising approximately forty shops.
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  • ...e's easternmost point is just to the north of the village in the [[Hundred Foot Washes]] near the Earith Bulwark. [[File:New Bedford River, aka Hundred Foot Drain, near Earith - geograph.org.uk - 310844.jpg|right|thumb|220px|The New
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  • ...e rivers fill the wash between them but not the farmland of the Middle and South Bedford Levels outside the banks. ...own as the River Delph. It drains into the New Bedford River a mile or two south of Denver Sluice.
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  • ...e late-19th century Crompton had emerged as a densely populated mill town. Forty-eight cotton mills, some of the largest in the United Kingdom, have been re ...increased, Crompton mirrored developments in Oldham and Manchester in the south and southwest, importing raw cotton and making cotton cloth.<ref name="Ball
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  • ...o southern Lincolnshire and west into northern Norfolk and but far further south deep into Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire, to the edge of [[Huntingdon]] ...eventeenth century, the Great Level was divided into the North, Middle and South Levels for the purposes of administration and maintenance. In the twentieth
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  • ...in the very south of the chain of the [[Outer Hebrides]] and lies 12 miles south of [[Barra]]. Mingulay is known for its important seabird populations, incl ...d Norse: ''Flax mound'') and Gunamul, which has a natural arch in 490&nbsp;foot cliffs through which boats can sail on rare days when the restless sea is c
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  • ...epherds Bush]] to the north, [[Kensington]] to the east, [[Fulham]] to the south and [[Chiswick]] to the west, and is linked by Hammersmith Bridge to [[Barn ...er shops along Shepherds Bush Road to the north, Fulham Palace Road to the south and Hammersmith Road to the east.
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  • ...ughly gamma-shaped, 4 miles from east to west, and 2½ miles from north to south. The highest point on the island is Slieveard, otherwise known as [[Kilpatr Rathlin is one of forty-three Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland. It is home to tens
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  • '''Wysall''' is a village in [[Nottinghamshire]], found 11 miles south of [[Nottingham]]. Every Summer, Wysall hosts the annual Strawberry Fair at ...lds]] to the south east, [[Wymeswold]] to the south and [[Costock]] to the south west.
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  • |constituency=South East Cornwall ...}}]) is a small town and cargo port at the mouth of the [[River Fowey]] in south [[Cornwall]].
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  • ...rth]]. To the west of the fells is Cumberland's coastal plain, and to the south [[Barrow in Furness]] sits on low gorund but otherwise the fell country rea ...ons in many areas, particularly [[Grisedale Forest]] in [[Furness]] in the south part of the area.
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