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Godrevy Head to St Agnes
Godrevy Head to St Agnes is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Cornwall, England], noted for both its biological and geological characteristics. A number of rare and scarce plant species can be found on the site, along with many breeding seabirds.
Godrevy Head to St Agnes
Godrevy Head to St Agnes
Godrevy Head to St Agnes is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Cornwall, England], noted for both its biological and geological characteristics. A number of rare and scarce plant species can be found on the site, along with many breeding seabirds.
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Stony Houghton
Local GemsStony Houghton is a hamlet near Glapwell, part of the parish of Pleasley in Derbyshire, England, close to New Houghton. It is a very quiet area consisting of only a few residential properties amidst farmland and farmsteads, retaining a peaceful environment with attractive scenery and landscape.
Stony Houghton
View pinPost Office Road
Local GemsPost Office Road is a rugby league ground in Featherstone, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of rugby league club Featherstone Rovers. The ground's current capacity is 6,954.
Post Office Road
View pinAiredale Academy
Local GemsAiredale Academy is a secondary school and sixth form on Crewe Road in a suburb of Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. Castleford Academy Trust recently merged with Northern Ambition Academies Trust. Castleford Academy Trust now has 9 schools. 3 secondary Academies and 6 Primary.
Airedale Academy
View pinArkwright Town railway station
Local GemsArkwright Town railway station was in Arkwright Town, Derbyshire, England.
Arkwright Town railway station
View pinFerrybridge
Local GemsFerrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows the route of the Great North Road. The village falls within the Knottingley ward of Wakefield City Council.
Ferrybridge
View pinStanfree
Local GemsStanfree is a community/village in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, consisting of a couple of rows of terraced cottages, lying halfway between Shuttlewood and Clowne. It is mentioned in Bagshaw's directory of 1846 and states "a hamlet about 2 and a quarter miles north from Bolsover market place". It is thought by some to draw its name from the fact that, though in a stoney neighbourhood, it is free from surface stone, or it may have a Roman or British origin. Iron seems to have been smelted
Stanfree
View pinRuthin Gaol
Local GemsRuthin Gaol is a Pentonville style prison in Ruthin, Denbighshire. Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury Prison. The county council bought the buildings in 1926 and used part of them for offices, the county archives, and the town library. During the Second World War the prison buildings were used as a munitions factory, before being handed back to the county council, when it was the headquarters of the Denbighshire Library Service.
Ruthin Gaol
View pinDoe Lea
Local GemsDoe Lea is a small, linear village in the English county of Derbyshire. It is in the Bolsover district of the county and falls in the Ault Hucknall civil parish. The village runs along the old A617 road. A newer dual carriageway runs parallel to it. The village is also immediately adjacent to junction 29 of the M1 motorway, like its neighbouring village Heath. Hardwick Hall is nearby. In 2005 the river and banks were given a makeover. A new path was put down, about 30 new trees were planted, the
Doe Lea
View pin2 Well Street, Ruthin
Local Gems2 Well Street is a Grade II listed building in the community of Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, which dates back to the 15th century. It was listed by Cadw on 16 May 1978.
2 Well Street, Ruthin
View pinBolsover Castle railway station
Local GemsBolsover Castle is a former railway station in Bolsover, Derbyshire, England.
Bolsover Castle railway station
View pinRuthin Castle
Local GemsRuthin Castle is a medieval castle fortification in Wales, near the town of Ruthin in the Vale of Clwyd. It was constructed during the late 13th century by Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the brother of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, on a red sandstone ridge overlooking the valley. Part of the ancient walls still remain and now form part of the Ruthin Castle Hotel.
Ruthin Castle
View pinLlangynhafal
Local GemsLlangynhafal is a village and community to the north of Ruthin, in Denbighshire, North Wales. The community includes the village of Gellifor. Llangynhafal is approximately 4 miles away from Ruthin and 6 miles away from Denbigh. The name Llangynhafal is thought to originate from the 7th century missionary Saint Cynhafal, who was the son of Saint Elgin ap Cadfarch, rather than from the popular but inaccurate "hundred apples" legend.
Llangynhafal
View pinScarcliffe railway station
Local GemsScarcliffe railway station is a former railway station in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire, England.
Scarcliffe railway station
View pinPoolsbrook
Local GemsPoolsbrook is a former mining village near Staveley in Chesterfield, England. The village was built by Staveley Coal and Iron Company towards the end of the 19th century to provide housing for workers employed at the nearby Speedwell and the later Ireland Collieries. Since then new houses have been built and the old houses have been knocked down.
Poolsbrook
View pinHonour of Peverel
Local GemsThe Honour of Peverel is a geographic area in the north of England comprising part of the historic feudal barony held by the Norman Peverel family. The honour was granted to William Peverel by William the Conqueror.
Honour of Peverel
View pinRAF Macmerry
Local GemsRoyal Air Force Macmerry or more simply RAF Macmerry is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland and 11.4 miles (18.3 km) east of Edinburgh. It was situated immediately to the north east of Macmerry on the north side of the A1 road. It has also been called RNAS Macmerry and unofficially RAF Tranent and RAF Penston during its life.
RAF Macmerry
View pinCoed Nant Mawr
Local GemsCoed Nant Mawr is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales. It is near to the town of Denbigh.
Coed Nant Mawr
View pinLlwyn
Local GemsLlwyn is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales. It consists of two blocks of alder woodland at grid reference SJ 083 643 and SJ 082 649, about 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Denbigh and just north of the village of Llanrhaeadr. The site is on the floodplain of the Rivers Clywedog and Clwyd, and includes peat beds and swamps. It was notified in 1983 and 2001. Part of the site, some 9 acres (3.6 ha), is owned by the Woodland Trust and operated as a natur
Llwyn
View pinLongniddry
Local GemsLongniddry is a coastal village in East Lothian, Scotland, with an estimated population of 2,340 in 2020. The Scottish Women's Rural Institute was founded here in 1917.
Longniddry
View pinNos. 33, 35 & 37 Clwyd Street, Ruthin
Local GemsNos. 33, 35 & 37 Clwyd Street is a 16th-century timber-framed building in Ruthin, Denbighshire. It was Grade II listed on 16 May 1978. Today, it is used as a shop.
Nos. 33, 35 & 37 Clwyd Street, Ruthin
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