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  • ..., and the [[River Usk]] flows in an easterly direction through the central valley. The [[Gospel Pass]], the high road pass at the scarp edge of the mountains ...he most important industries are agriculture, forestry and tourism. Hay-on-Wye is famed as a "book town", with a far great density of second-hand bookshop
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  • ...r. Three other rivers form the majority of the county's other borders: The Wye forms the eastern border with [[Gloucestershire]], the Rhymney forms the we ...The Herefordshire hamlet of [[Fwthog]] adjoining the [[River Honddu|Honddu Valley]] is an exclave within Monmouthshire.
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  • |picture caption=Chepstow Castle and 1816 road bridge across the Wye ...joining the border with [[Gloucestershire]]. It is located on the [[River Wye]], close to its confluence with the [[River Severn]], and close to the west
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  • Ashford lies in a valley at the meeting of the [[River Stour, Kent|Great Stour]] and [[East Stour, K ...has for centuries been a local centre for surrounding villages. When the railway came in the nineteenth century, Ashford stood at the centre of five lines;
    13 KB (2,110 words) - 20:45, 27 January 2016
  • | picture caption =Bridge over the Wye at Builth Wells ...f the [[River Wye]] and the River Irfon, in the upper reaches of the [[Wye Valley]].
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  • ...is found by the border with [[Hertfordshire]], in the [[River Stort|Stort Valley]], and close to the M11 motorway. It is considered part of the London comm ...the building of a new hotel, apartments, and a restaurant adjacent to the railway station being complete. The next stage of this scheme involves the completi
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  • [[File:River Wye at Hay-on-Wye.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Wye at Hay-on-Wye]] [[File:Chepstow Castle and Bridge from Tutshill.jpg|thumb|250px|The Wye at Chepstow]]
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  • ...across into Shropshire, in which part are some residential streets and the railway station. ...hire]] had a small population and little industry. The construction of the railway was made economically viable - just - by an entrepreneurial drive to connec
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  • |picture=Into the valley - geograph.org.uk - 1372412.jpg '''Tintern''' is a village on the west bank of the [[River Wye]] in [[Monmouthshire]], about five miles north of [[Chepstow]]. It is popul
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  • ...ulation of 2,075 in 2001 and is the first town on the banks of the [[River Wye]], 20 miles below its source on the [[Plynlimon]] range of the Cambrian Mou ...to make way for the bridge linking the town to [[Cwmdauddwr]] and the Elan Valley.
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  • ...nce footpath from right bank to left bank when heading downstream. The Wye Valley Walk long distance footpath starts here. |[[File:Footbridge at the meeting of the Severn Way and the Wye Valley Walk - geograph.org.uk - 772153.jpg|120px]]
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  • ...arwickshire Avon]] and [[River Stour, Worcestershire|Stour]]. The [[River Wye]] enters at the rivermouth to join the Severn Estuary. ...afterwards joined by the [[River Lugg]], before flowing through [[Ross-on-Wye]] and [[Monmouth]], and then southwards where it forms the boundary between
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  • ...70 road which joins the Upper [[River Wye|Wye]] Valley to the Upper Severn Valley and on toward [[Newtown, Montgomeryshire|Newtown]]. It is the highest town ...ember 1962. The Llanidloes by-pass road runs along a section of the former railway, and the station still stands beside this road. It is now restored and occu
    7 KB (1,096 words) - 13:47, 23 January 2018
  • ...and the railway town of [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]]. The route of the Stour Valley Walk follows the river. [[File:Great Stour at Wye.jpg|thumb|The Great Stour at Wye]]
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  • ...]], Deri and [[New Tredegar]], Rhymney is designated as the 'Upper Rhymney Valley' by the local council. The civil community extends into both [[Glamorgan]] ...launched its sister campus in Rhymney to serve the top end of the Rhymney Valley under the name The College Rhymney. The College Rhymey has undergone rapid
    10 KB (1,472 words) - 14:07, 9 August 2019
  • ...hat was rebuilt by Thomas Telford following flood damage in 1795.<ref>Teme Valley Times, Spring 2007, p2</ref> It is also crossed, several times, by the [[El ...etrust.org/blog/OurEarthHeritage/_archives/2006/7/14/2119063.html The Teme Valley] a blog on the [http://www.earthheritagetrust.org/ Herfordshre & Worcesters
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  • ...near [[Little Marlow]], standing on the [[River Wye, Buckinghamshire|River Wye]] close to where it falls into the [[River Thames]]. Bourne End has just un ...gth of the River Wye was the provider of water power for many mills in the valley for hundreds of years, and Bourne End was no exception. There were four on
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  • ...ss|Chess]], [[River Misbourne|Misbourne]] and [[River Wye, Buckinghamshire|Wye]]. These are classified as chalk streams, although the Lea is degraded by ...the same river valley provides a route for the modern A41 and for the main railway line from London to [[Birmingham]], while [[Watling Street]] followed the [
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  • Bakewell is on the [[River Wye, Derbyshire|River Wye]], about 30 miles north of the [[county town]], [[Derby]], and thirteen mil ...as a trading centre. The Grade I listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye at Bakewell was constructed in the 13th century, and is one of the few surv
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  • ...with [[Monmouthshire]] and so within easy reach of the delights of the Wye Valley, a popular walking and canoeing area. ...hamlets called Coleford and Whitecliff had grown up along the road in the valley of Thurstan's brook. Coleford had eight or more houses in 1349 and was desc
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