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  • ...ers road to Tregaron crosses the Irfon via the Irish bridge at the foot of the ''Devil's Staircase'']] ...gwesyn Valley, dropping into the ''Wolves' Gorge'' in the middle-ground of the picture.]]
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  • [[File:Ward's Stone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ward's Stone; the highest point in the Forest of Bowland]] ...arren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat beds. The hills are known as the '''Bowland Fells'''.
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  • ...nurbation stretching out from [[Birmingham]] and the [[Black Country]], by the edge of [[Cannock Chase]], a fine stretch of country designated an Area of ...o heavily affected by coal mining as nearby towns of Staffordshire were in the great industrial days.
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  • ...st of Manchester and eight miles south of [[St Helens]]. The population of the town is 80,661. Its population has more than doubled since its designation ...iddle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at a bridging point of the river. A local tradition of textile and tool production dates from this tim
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  • ...dest bishoprics in the [[Church of England]] and in the Early Middle Ages, the richest. Worcester stands in the midst of Worcestershire in the broad Severn Valley, some 30 miles southwest of [[Birmingham]] and 29 miles
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  • ...h of [[Manchester]] and 25 miles east of [[Preston]], at the confluence of the [[River Calder, Lancashire|River Calder]] and [[River Brun]]. ...pe, and is increasingly a dormitory town for [[Manchester]], [[Leeds]] and the [[M65 motorway]] corridor.
    24 KB (3,843 words) - 09:42, 27 June 2016
  • |picture caption=Flat Holm from the air ...t Holm in Glamorgan and Steep Holm in [[Somerset]]. As such, Flat Holm is the most southerly point of Glamorgan and indeed of [[Wales]].
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  • |picture caption=The one house at Bearnus on Ulva ...ath, so close that it scarcely seems a separate isle. Ulva is connected to the neighbouring island of [[Gometra]] by a bridge.
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  • ...]]. It is located on the south coast of [[Ireland]], on the title reach of the [[River Suir]], which gave Waterford its name and which has enabled it to t ...centre of a Viking kingdom, and had a Norse king even up to the coming of the Norman-English conquest of Ireland.
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  • ...orough, Lancashire|Littleborough]] road in the Walsden Valley, a branch of the Upper [[River Calder, Lancashire|Calder Valley]], and is just under two mil ...in the Todmorden area during the Second World War Blitz, probably because the German plane had a leftover bomb after a raid and so dropped it on what app
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  • ...tormy seas of [[Cape Wrath]] and the [[Pentland Firth]]. It is named after the village of [[Eriboll]] on its eastern shore. ...llside above the west shore. A small scale lime industry developed here in the 19th century.
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  • ...road just north of the A541 highway between [[Nannerch]] and [[Caerwys]]. The name translates roughly as "a place where elder trees grow".<ref name=os>[h ...illages of [[Lixwm]], to the east of Ysceifiog village, and [[Babell]], to the north.
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  • ...the parish is [[Castletown, Caithness|Castletown]]. The farmstead bearing the name, Olrig Mains, is a mile southwest of Castletown. ...land]]s or 'fermlands'. Boundaries were mostly disregarded and lost during the 19th century but many townland names remain identifiable in farmstead names
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  • ...], covers an area of 2,400 acres making it the largest area of woodland in the county. It contains a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees.<ref name=FC ...t ordnances were abolished. In 1924 the woodland came under the control of the Forestry Commission.
    22 KB (3,313 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2015
  • ...yde, Cheshire|Hyde]]. It is eight miles south-east of [[Manchester]]. At the 2001 census it had a population of 15,126. ...he [[River Tame, Lancashire|River Tame]] and [[River Goyt]], headwaters of the [[River Mersey]].
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  • ...e and main population centre of [[North Uist]] in the [[Outer Hebrides]]. The island is within [[Inverness-shire]]. ...ounds". The wolves or hounds in question are ''Na Madaidhean''; rocks in the bay.
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  • [[File:Thetford forest dtab.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A view of the forest]] ...ned by the [[Forestry Commission]]. Some {{convert|19000|ha|acre|-2|x}} of the forest are designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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  • ...[[Highlands|Highland]] parts of the shire, where [[Loch Tay]] drains into the [[River Tay]]. ...lloch (from Gaelic ''bealach'', 'pass'). The original village was sited on the north side of river approximately two miles from its present site and was k
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  • '''Ebbor Gorge''' is a limestone gorge in the [[Mendip Hills]] of [[Somerset]]. The gorge was donated to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National
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  • |nickname=The Magpies ...is more popularly known as '''Toon''' (from "Newcastle Town" pronounced in the Geordie manner).
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