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Blackfriars, Winchelsea
Blackfriars, Winchelsea, was a Dominican priory in Winchelsea, East Sussex, England. The friary was established in 1318 by Edward II on the outskirts of the new town of Winchelsea, but after several moves to different locations, was granted in 1358 a site of an acre with five adjoining houses in the town centre. It was dissolved in 1538, at which point the building was ruinous. As with other dissolved religious houses in Winchelsea, the stone of the structures was used for the construction of Ca
Blackfriars, Winchelsea
Blackfriars, Winchelsea
Blackfriars, Winchelsea, was a Dominican priory in Winchelsea, East Sussex, England. The friary was established in 1318 by Edward II on the outskirts of the new town of Winchelsea, but after several moves to different locations, was granted in 1358 a site of an acre with five adjoining houses in the town centre. It was dissolved in 1538, at which point the building was ruinous. As with other dissolved religious houses in Winchelsea, the stone of the structures was used for the construction of Ca
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Bryn, Neath Port Talbot
Local GemsBryn is a village and community in Neath Port Talbot County Borough in Wales. It has a population of 913. The village is located in the hills between Cwmafan, in the Afan Valley, and Maesteg in the Llynfi Valley, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from Port Talbot and 2 miles (3.2 km) from Maesteg. The name of the village now familiarly 'Bryn', is Bryn-troed-y-garn. So wrote the first vicar of St Theodore's in Port Talbot. There was a farm situated above Meadow Row named Bryn-Troed-y-Garn as shown o
Bryn, Neath Port Talbot
View pinThe Abbey, Sutton Courtenay
Local GemsThe Abbey in Sutton Courtenay is a medieval courtyard house in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is located in the Vale of White Horse near the River Thames, across the road from the twelfth-century Norman Hall and the Manor House. The Abbey has been recognised as a building of outstanding historic and architectural interest and is considered to be a 'textbook' example of an English medieval manor house. It has been a Grade I-listed building since 1952.
The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay
View pinTobermory High School
Local GemsTobermory High School is the only secondary school on the Isle of Mull. It is located in Tobermory, at the northern end of the island.
Tobermory High School
View pinPlodda Falls
Local GemsPlodda Falls is a waterfall, situated 5 km south-west of the village of Tomich, near Glen Affric, in the Highlands of Scotland. The falls are 46 m high, and are on the Allt na Bodachan, near where it flows into the Abhainn Deabhag, which in turn joins with the River Affric to form the River Glass.
Plodda Falls
View pinTobermory Lifeboat Station
Local GemsTobermory Lifeboat Station is located at the end of Main Street in Tobermory, a harbour town sitting at the northern end of the Sound of Mull, on the Isle of Mull, part of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland.
Tobermory Lifeboat Station
View pinChicago and North Western Roundhouse
Local GemsThe Chicago and North Western Roundhouse in Huron, South Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing structure of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. It has also been known as C&NW Roundhouse and as Huron Roundhouse.
Chicago and North Western Roundhouse
View pinCorrimony Falls
Local GemsCorrimony Falls is a waterfall on the River Enrick, near Corrimony in Glenurquhart, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is a local tourist attraction in the spring and summer.
Corrimony Falls
View pinHattie O. and Henry Drake Octagon House
Local GemsThe Hattie O. and Henry Drake Octagon House, built c. 1893, is an octagonal house located at 605 3rd Street, South West, in Huron, South Dakota. The home's most unusual feature may be its mansard roof.
Hattie O. and Henry Drake Octagon House
View pinMount Cleveland (Alaska)
Local GemsMount Cleveland is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Mount Cleveland is 5,675 ft (1,730 m) high, and one of the most active of the 75 or more volcanoes in the larger Aleutian Arc. Aleutian natives named the island after their fire goddess, Chuginadak, who they believed inhabited the volcano. In 1894 a team from the United States
Mount Cleveland (Alaska)
View pinAvon Viaduct, Linlithgow
Local GemsThe Avon Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Linlithgow, in West Lothian, Scotland. Completed in 1841, it spans the River Avon just to the west of town.
Avon Viaduct, Linlithgow
View pinDervaig
Local GemsDervaig is a small village on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilninian and Kilmore, and is situated on the B8073 roughly midway between Tobermory and Calgary. In 1961 it had a population of 82.
Dervaig
View pinRubha nan Gall
Local GemsRubha nan Gall lighthouse is located north of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull beside the Sound of Mull. The name means "Stranger's Point" in Scottish Gaelic. It was built in 1857 by David and Thomas Stevenson and is operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board. The lighthouse was automated in 1960 and the nearby former keepers' cottages are privately owned.
Rubha nan Gall
View pinCalve Island
Local GemsCalve Island is an uninhabited low-lying island off the east coast of the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. A whitewashed farmhouse with substantial outbuildings stands on the western shore, used as a summer residence. The island is 1+1⁄4 miles in length, and 1⁄2 mile wide at its widest point. Calve is owned by the Cotton family who make use of it in the summer months.
Calve Island
View pinCorrimony
Local GemsCorrimony is a small village at the western end of Glenurquhart, in Inverness-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland, now within Highland council area. It is 13 km west of Drumnadrochit, and 32 km south-west of Inverness.
Corrimony
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Local GemsSgurr a' Choire Ghlais is a mountain in the North-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies between Glen Strathfarrar and Glen Orrin and it is an excellent viewpoint, being the highest mountain in its group - a group which includes the Munros of Sgurr na Ruaidhe, Sgurr Fhuar-thuill and Carn nan Gobhar. Northwards there is no higher ground apart from the Fannichs.
Sgùrr a' Choire Ghlais
View pinSgùrr na Ciste Duibhe
Local GemsSgùrr na Ciste Duibhe or Sgùrr nan Cisteachan Dubha is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, one of the 'Five Sisters of Kintail'. It is on the northern side of Glen Shiel, 27 kilometers southeast of Kyle of Lochalsh. Its height is 1,027 metres (3,369 ft) and it is classed as a Munro.
Sgùrr na Ciste Duibhe
View pinUSS Ailanthus
Local GemsUSS Ailanthus (AN-38/YN-57) was an Ailanthus-class net laying ship which served with the U.S. Navy in the western Pacific Ocean theatre of operations during World War II. She was assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet with her protective anti-submarine nets. She ran aground at Lash bay, Tanaga Island in the Aleutians 26 February 1944 and was declared a total loss. She was only six months old. Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 45 assisted the ship's crew evacuate safely.
USS Ailanthus
View pinSouth Marston
Local GemsSouth Marston is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The village is about 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Swindon town centre.
South Marston
View pinMaesteg (Ewenny Road) railway station
Local GemsMaesteg railway station is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Maesteg in Wales. It is located adjacent to the Ewenny Road Industrial Estate to the south of Maesteg on the Maesteg Line from Cardiff via Bridgend. The other station, which is the terminus of the Maesteg Line, is named Maesteg.
Maesteg (Ewenny Road) railway station
View pinMascalls Academy
Local GemsMascalls Academy is a co-educational secondary school and a sixth form with academy status located in Paddock Wood, Kent.
Mascalls Academy
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