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• Berwickshire
  ...ngest natural defences of Scotland was the Peaths Ravine, until bridged by Telford in 1786 with a bridge 300 feet long and 123 feet high. *{{i-Castle}} [[Earlston]], reputed home of Thomas the Rhymer
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• Caernarfonshire
  ...largely Welsh-speaking. At its end is [[Aberdaron]], the parish where R S Thomas served as vicar, and beyond the island of [[Bardsey Island|Bardsey]]. ...es across the Menai Strait was built from Anglesey to Caernarfonshire, and Telford's road. This was followed by the railway and a new bridge over the Strait,
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• Menai Strait
  [[File:Menai Suspension Bridge Dec 09.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge]] ...dged in two places. The main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January
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• Cromartyshire
  ...in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society. The town was designed by Thomas Telford.
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• Inverness-shire
  ...s a vast "fault," or dislocation, 62 miles in length, through which Thomas Telford constructed (1804-1822) the Caledonian Canal connecting Loch Linnhe and the
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• Shropshire
  ...f>[http://www.wrexhamandshropshire.co.uk/telford.php Wrexham & Shropshire: Telford].</ref> [[Oswestry]] stands in the north-west of the shire and [[Newport, S ...rth-east, and [[Newport, Shropshire|Newport]] and the Telford conurbation (Telford, Wellington, Oakengates, Donnington and Shifnal) to the east. The land is f
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• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
  ...h offers views over Anglesey and the Menai Strait. The Column, designed by Thomas Harrison, celebrates the heroism of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey a ...Great Britain by the construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge by Thomas Telford, and connected with [[London]] in 1850 with the building of the Britannia B
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• Menai Bridge
  ...ait]] and lies by the [[Menai Suspension Bridge]], built in 1826 by Thomas Telford. It is Anglesey's third largest settlement, with a population of 3,850,<ref
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• Holyhead
  ...which the Royal Mail was dispatched to and from Dublin on the mail coach. Telford's road of 1821 (now the A5) began in Holyhead and ran all the way to [[Lond
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• Tobermory
  ...unded as a fishing port in 1788, its layout based on the designs of Thomas Telford.
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• Wick
  ...century Sir William commissioned Britain's leading civil engineer, Thomas Telford, to design and supervise the creation of a major new herring fishing town a
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• Ullapool
  ...blisher=Ullapool Harbour Trustees }}</ref> The town was designed by Thomas Telford. ...illage has a small award-winning museum housed in a church built by Thomas Telford [http://www.antallasolais.org/ An Talla Solais], an arts centre, a swimming
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• Conwy
  ...rd to replace the ferry. It spans the [[River Conwy]] next to the castle. Telford designed the bridge's supporting towers to match the castle's turrets. The
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• Langholm
  ...hough it is now best known as the birthplace of Hugh MacDiarmid and Thomas Telford.
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• Gretna
  ...tsworth, George (1984). ''A history of British motorways''. London: Thomas Telford Limited. ISBN 978-0-7277-0159-6.
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• Birmingham
  ...n".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Briggs|first=Asa|author-link=Asa Briggs|title=Thomas Attwood and the Economic Background of the Birmingham Political Union|journ ...se a city flag, which was duly won on 23 July 2015 by striking a design by Thomas Keogh and David Smith, on which a bull's head stares from the centre of a r
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• Bala
  ...school, which was founded in 1712. A statue stands in the town of the Rev Thomas Charles (1755–1814), the theological writer who was driving force in the ...ting at its lower, northern end. Natural as the lake is in itself, Thomas Telford raised the level of the lake to support the Ellesmere Canal. The Lake is a
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• Nairn
  ...r ways, the narrow-streeted Fishertown surrounds a harbour built by Thomas Telford while Victorian villas stand in the 'West End'. It is believed that the Du
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• Plymouth
  ...=R. A.|title=Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=1994|pages=48|chapter=The Tamar Valley and Plymouth|isbn=0727719718|ur
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• Westonzoyland
  ...=R. A.|title=Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=1994|page=94|isbn=0-72771-971-8}}</ref> A major upgrade of the drain o
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