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Brims, Orkney
Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999.
Brims, Orkney
Brims, Orkney
Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999.
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Desart Court
Local GemsDesart Court was a palladian house in County Kilkenny, Ireland, built around 1733 for the first Lord Desart, John Cuffe. The architect is believed to have been Sir Edward Lovett Pearce.
Desart Court
View pinCameron Reservoir
Local GemsCameron Reservoir is an artificial loch in the parish of Cameron in east Fife, Scotland. Covering an area of 43 hectares, the reservoir is fed by a catchment of 558 hectares and its surface level is 146 metres (479 ft) above ordnance datum. Most of the catchment area is to the south and south-west of the loch.
Cameron Reservoir
View pinSt Salvator's Hall
Local GemsSt Salvator's Hall is a student hall of residence at the University of St Andrews. It lies close to the quadrangle of the United College, St Andrews and St Salvator's Chapel, a foundation which was endowed by King James II of Scotland. The Hall is in an area between North Street and The Scores. Architecturally, it has been described as a "rambling Gothic dormitory".
St Salvator's Hall
View pinSlieve Donard
Local GemsSlieve Donard is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland, the highest in Ulster, and the seventh-highest in Ireland, with a height of 850 metres (2,790 ft). The highest of the Mourne Mountains, it is near the town of Newcastle on the eastern coast of County Down, overlooking the Irish Sea. It is also the highest mountain in the northern half of Ireland.
Slieve Donard
View pinKingston, Devon
Local GemsKingston is civil parish and small scattered village in the South Hams, Devon, England. It is three miles south west of Modbury and about a mile from the mouth of the River Erme at Wonwell. In 2001, the population of the parish was 399, reducing to 387 at the 2011 census. It has a small village hall – the Reading Room – that is used regularly for village events. There are several old houses, including a number of thatched cottages. Nearby is a beach called Westcombe (wis-com).
Kingston, Devon
View pinOur Lady of the Angels, Nuneaton
Local GemsThe Roman Catholic Parish of Our Lady of the Angels is located in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The parish is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and a part of the Rugby Deanery. The current Parish Priest is Fr. Jimmy Lutwama. Working alongside the diocesan clergy are a group of Presentation Sisters.
Our Lady of the Angels, Nuneaton
View pinKnap House Quarry, Birdlip
Local GemsKnap 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
View pinPhilipps House
Local GemsPhilipps House is an early 19th-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, overlooking the Nadder valley about 8 miles (13 km) west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1816 by William Wyndham to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, replacing a 17th-century house. In 1916 the estate was bought by Bertram Philipps, who renamed the house after himself, then in 1943 gave the house and grounds to the National Trust. The is Grade II* listed and its parkland (known as Dinton Park
Philipps House
View pinKingfisher Shopping Centre
Local GemsKingfisher Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Redditch, England. It contains 150 stores, with a range of large and smaller units, including anchor tenants Next and Primark. The home, leisure and garden retailer The Range opened in July 2017, taking the former BHS unit. Several restaurants and cafes also include Nandos, a Vue Cinema, and the family entertainment centre 360 Play Town.
Kingfisher Shopping Centre
View pinGlencripesdale Estate
Local GemsThe Glencripesdale Estate is a country estate situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland.
Glencripesdale Estate
View pinLoch Fyne
Local GemsLoch Fyne, is a sea loch off the Firth of Clyde and forms part of the coast of the Cowal Peninsula. Located on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It extends 65 kilometres (40 mi) inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs in Scotland. It is connected to the Sound of Jura by the Crinan Canal. Although there is no evidence that grapes have grown there, the title is probably honorific, indicating that the river, Abhainn Fìne, was a well-respected river.
Loch Fyne
View pinWhitminster
Local GemsWhitminster is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, on the A38 trunk road approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Gloucester and 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Stroud. The parish population at the 2011 census was 881. The hamlet of Wheatenhurst is signposted from the A38 at Whitminster. Whitminster is close to Junction 13 of the M5 motorway, with Bristol, South Wales and the south Midlands all within an hour's drive.
Whitminster
View pinCastle Hill, Filleigh
Local GemsCastle Hill in the parish of Filleigh in North Devon, is an early Neo-Palladian country house situated 3 miles north-west of South Molton and 8 mi (13 km) south-east of Barnstaple. It was built in 1730 by Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton (1696–1751), who was later created in 1751 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl of Clinton, the son of Hugh Fortescue, lord of the manor of Filleigh, Weare Giffard, etc., whose family is earliest recorded as residing in the 12th century at the manor of Whympston i
Castle Hill, Filleigh
View pinThe Cheviot
Local GemsThe Cheviot is an extinct volcano and the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills and in the county of Northumberland. Located in the extreme north of England, it is a 1+1⁄4-mile (2-kilometre) walk from the Scottish border and, with a height of 2,674 feet above sea-level, is located on the northernmost few miles of the Pennine Way, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm.
The Cheviot
View pinBarntown Castle
Local GemsBarntown Castle is a tower house near Wexford town in Ireland. It is about 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of the centre of Wexford town, on the main Wexford to New Ross road. The castle, set in the middle of a grazing field, is now in ruins and used as a cattle shelter. A Georgian mansion has replaced the castle as the residence of the local landowners, currently the Joyce family.
Barntown Castle
View pinBurnchurch
Local GemsBurnchurch is a civil parish in Shillelogher, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It has an area of approximately 13.7 square kilometres. Burnchurch parish contains 15 townlands, including a townland also known as Burnchurch. As of the 2011 census, Burnchurch townland had a population of 111 people. The local national (primary) school, Burnchurch National School, had an enrollment of 61 pupils as of early 2024.
Burnchurch
View pinRendcomb College
Local GemsRendcomb College is a public school for pupils aged 3–18, located in the village of Rendcomb five miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.
Rendcomb College
View pinBourton-on-the-Hill
Local GemsBourton-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Moreton-in-Marsh. In 2010 it had an estimated population of 288. The village overlooks the surrounding hills of the Cotswolds and lies on the Heart of England Way, which heads southwards to Bourton-on-the-Water and northwards to Cannock Chase. The village is also connected by a footpath to the Cotswold Way, via Blockley and Chipping Campden.
Bourton-on-the-Hill
View pinRAF Bardney
Local GemsRoyal Air Force Bardney or RAF Bardney is a former Royal Air Force station located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bardney, Lincolnshire, England and 10 miles (16 km) east of Lincoln. It was built as a satellite to RAF Waddington in 1943 and the airfield closed in 1963.
RAF Bardney
View pinChurch of St Mary, Edgeworth
Local GemsThe Anglican Church of St Mary at Edgeworth in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in 11th century. It is a grade I listed building.
Church of St Mary, Edgeworth
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