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Knap House Quarry, Birdlip
Knap House Quarry, Birdlip is a 1.80-hectare (4.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS) and a Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS).
Knap House Quarry, Birdlip
Knap House Quarry, Birdlip
Knap House Quarry, Birdlip is a 1.80-hectare (4.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS) and a Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS).
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Local GemsLlandeilo is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated where the River Towy is crossed by the A483 on a 19th-century stone bridge. At the 2021 census the community had a population of 1,784. It is adjacent to the westernmost point of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The town is served by Llandeilo railway station on the Heart of Wales Line.
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De La Warr Pavilion
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Hundred of Elmbridge
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Local GemsBeeches Farm is a farm and country house in Bexhill, East Sussex, England. A Grade II listed building, it dates to at least the 18th century, and is a two-storey building with stuccoed brickwork on the ground floor, and a hipped tiled roof.
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Ceann Iar
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Local GemsCarreg Cennen Castle is a castle sited on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the River Cennen, close to the village of Trap, four miles south east of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Castell Carreg Cennen means castle on a rock next to Cennen, the river name itself being a reference either to cen meaning lichen or perhaps a personal name.
Carreg Cennen Castle
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Local GemsBethlehem is a tiny farming village in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying in the Tywi Valley northeast of Llandeilo and southwest of Llangadog but on the opposite side of the river from the busy London to Haverfordwest road, the A40.
Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire
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Kinlochbervie High School
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Rowallane Garden
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Oatlands Palace
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Ballynahinch railway station
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Thamesmead School
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Hazelwood (rugby ground)
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Old Walton Bridge
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Carryduff
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Wringcliff Bay
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Shepperton railway station
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Caffyns Halt railway station
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