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  • ...dustrial cities grew hungry for coal and the forges sought iron. Over the course of the nineteenth century the coal mines in particular multiplies and new p ...und of wooden flutes, bone flutes, panpipes, wooden drums and lyres (a six-string form of harp).<ref>{{cite book|author=Gething, Paul|title= Northumbria: The
    24 KB (3,699 words) - 15:59, 14 August 2020
  • ...tropolitan Green Belt]]. Along the north shore of the Thames estuary is a string of towns given over to industry or leisure, as far as [[Shoebury]], and amo
    25 KB (3,857 words) - 15:59, 1 March 2022
  • ...broad, flat peninsula whose inland parts are farmland but whose coast is a string of holiday resorts centred on the best known of them all; [[Blackpool]].
    10 KB (1,426 words) - 19:03, 9 June 2023
  • ...th Wales. Further Norman adventurers penetrated further north and built a string of castles where they came, notably at [[Newport, Pembrokeshire|Newport]] a
    19 KB (2,728 words) - 18:38, 10 June 2019
  • ...ns such as [[Bognor Regis]], [[Brighton]], [[Hove]] and [[Worthing]], in a string along the coastal plain between the [[South Downs]] and the [[English Chann
    7 KB (1,125 words) - 14:56, 19 January 2021
  • ...tury when the Co-Operative Wholesale Society opened its vast and extensive string of factories along its main thoroughfare, Shields Road. Boutlands, Harrison
    2 KB (283 words) - 13:47, 28 November 2017
  • ...of Wensleydale is [[Hawes]], a fine walking centre and just the first of a string of jewels on the Ure. Lower down are the haunting ruins of Jervaulx Abbey,
    3 KB (507 words) - 17:38, 23 August 2020
  • ...ing as a public open space. There are fine views over London from here. A string of ponds on either side of the Heath are the twin sources of the [[River Fl
    6 KB (809 words) - 20:08, 4 July 2022
  • ...oduction of goats and the introduction of new vegetation. As a result, the string tree (''Acalypha rubrinervis'') and the St&nbsp;Helena olive (''Nesiota ell ..., based on the cultivation and processing of New Zealand flax for rope and string. St&nbsp;Helena's economy is now very weak, and the island is almost entire
    26 KB (4,047 words) - 15:11, 17 March 2020
  • In the Roman period, sea salt was extracted and a string of settlements were set up along the Polden Hills. The discovery at [[Shapw
    3 KB (498 words) - 21:33, 4 January 2013
  • The town probably originated in Anglo-Saxon times as a string of houses on the northern side of this ford. It was located on the first dr
    12 KB (1,806 words) - 18:51, 27 January 2016
  • ...[[Ascot]] Racecourse. It has two racetracks, The Rowley Mile and The July Course. [[File:A string of horses heads for the gallops - geograph.org.uk - 841213.jpg|left|200px]]
    8 KB (1,244 words) - 08:46, 29 July 2014
  • ...1979, 1982, 1985, 1988 and 1991 the city was host to a major international string quartet competition. Later the competition moved to London.
    35 KB (5,463 words) - 19:20, 1 November 2021
  • ...om ''Ebbanham'' ("Ebba's home"), after a presumed Anglo-Saxon landowner. A string of settlements ending in ''–ham'' lie along the northern slopes of the Do
    9 KB (1,424 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
  • ...rn, the largest and lowest of a string of long, thin ponds formed from the course of a bourn running off the [[Hog's Back]] down to the Wey.
    1 KB (162 words) - 17:15, 7 December 2015
  • ...the breakwater was being built in the 1850s, the island was fortified by a string of 13 forts, designed to protect the harbour of refuge. The accommodation q
    26 KB (4,127 words) - 14:45, 29 January 2022
  • ...tennacum) (Ribchester), passing over Blacksnape, plunges on its unswerving course through Blackamoor, over the scarp at Whinney Heights, to pass across the B ...pendent on the cotton industry, warning of the dangers of "only having one string to their bow in Blackburn".<ref>Taylor (2000), p.&nbsp;11.</ref> The warnin
    30 KB (4,592 words) - 13:34, 27 January 2016
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  • ...g on the coast at the uttermost of the [[Solway Firth]]. It is one of the string of West Cumberland towns along A596 road, with [[Workington]] to the south. ...Club was formed on January 21, 1905 and is now a well established 18 hole course.<ref name="golf">[http://www.maryportgolfclub.co.uk], Maryport Golf Club We
    9 KB (1,425 words) - 10:36, 25 November 2011
  • The church has a three-stage tower divided by string courses with clasping corner buttresses, a battlemented parapet with small
    4 KB (664 words) - 13:12, 8 December 2011

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