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Criterion Hotel, Perth

The Criterion Hotel, formerly the Regatta Hotel, is a hotel in Perth, Western Australia. It is the only remaining Art Deco hotel in the Perth central business district.

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Afon Cegin

The Afon Cegin is a small river draining parts of North Wales and discharging to the Menai Strait at Porth Penrhyn. Its name means Kitchen River in English.

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100 St Georges Terrace

100 St Georges Terrace is a 24-storey skyscraper located at 100 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. It is a mixed retail and commercial property. The retail component, named enex perth, is made up of two floors of shops and food outlets between St Georges Terrace and the Hay Street Mall. The office tower is 103 metres (338 ft) high, and the project was the first office building constructed in Perth to a 4.5-star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating.

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Caim, Anglesey

Caim is a hamlet in the community of Llangoed, Anglesey, Wales, which is 144.3 miles (232.2 km) from Cardiff and 225.8 miles (363.4 km) from London. Caim is represented in the Senedd by Rhun ap Iorwerth and is part of the Ynys Môn constituency in the House of Commons.

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Caim, Anglesey

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Hafotty

Hafotty, Llansadwrn, Anglesey, Wales is a medieval hall house dating from the mid 14th century. Described in the Gwynedd Pevsner as "one of Anglesey's classic small medieval houses", Hafotty is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.

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Ambassadors Theatre (Perth)

Ambassadors Theatre was a theatre and cinema in Hay Street, Perth, between 1929 and 1972.

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Ambassadors Theatre (Perth)

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Laindon railway station

Laindon is a railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Laindon in Essex, England. It is 22 miles 69 chains (36.8 km) down the main line from London Fenchurch Street and is situated between West Horndon to the west and Basildon to the east. Its three-letter station code is LAI. The station and all trains serving it are currently operated by c2c.

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Perth

Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023. The world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon

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Sherwood Court, Perth

Sherwood Court is a 140 metre road in the Perth central business district, Western Australia. It runs from St Georges Terrace to The Esplanade with Allendale Square on the upper corner, and Lawson Apartments on the lower.

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Vange Hill

Vange Hill is an 11.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Vange, a suburb of Basildon in Essex. It is owned and managed by Basildon Borough Council.

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Burt Memorial Hall

Burt Memorial Hall is a hall located on the southern side of Cathedral Square on St Georges Terrace, in Perth, Western Australia.

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Burt Memorial Hall

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Basildon Meadows

Basildon Meadows is a 6.5-hectare (16-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of Basildon in Essex.

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Plaza Theatre, Perth

The former Plaza Theatre is located at 650-658 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia. It was the first purpose-designed Art Deco cinema in Perth. The Plaza Theatre opened in 1937 and was built for Hoyts Theatres Ltd.

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Mills of Drum railway station

Mills of Drum railway station was opened in September 1853 by the Deeside Railway and served the rural area around Park House and Crathes estates at the Mills of Drum or Drum Mills, corn mills, that lay close to the River Dee. The Deeside Railway was taken over by the GNoSR in the 1860s. Mills of Drum only remained open until 1863 as an intermediate station on the Deeside Railway that ran from Aberdeen (Joint) to Ballater. Mills of Drum station was located in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Peebles railway station (1864)

Peebles railway station was the second site of the railway station in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland from 1864 to 1962 on the Peebles Railway.

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Peebles railway station (1864)

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Cluny Crichton Castle

Cluny Crichton Castle is a ruined 3-storey tower house on the southern slopes of the Hill of Fare in Aberdeenshire, 4 km north of Banchory and 6.5 km east of Torphins.

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Cryne Corse Mounth

Cryne Corse Mounth is an old droving road which ran south across the high ground from the Dee valley in Aberdeenshire, eastern Scotland. Much of the route is now afforested. It is one of a number of old tracks which passed over the Mounth, an eastern extension of the Grampian Mountains.

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Great Polish Map of Scotland

The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a large three-dimensional, outdoor concrete scale model of Scotland, located in the grounds of the Barony Castle Hotel, outside the village of Eddleston near Peebles in the Scottish Borders. It is also known as the Mapa Scotland or the Barony Map. The brainchild of Polish war veteran Jan Tomasik, it was built between 1974 and 1979 and is claimed to be the world's largest terrain relief model. The sculpture is a category B listed building, and has been restored

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Great Polish Map of Scotland

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Stourton, Warwickshire

Stourton is a village and civil parish beside the River Stour about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Shipston-on-Stour. The population taken at the 2011 census was 159. Stourton is contiguous with the larger village of Cherington.

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Stourton, Warwickshire

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Milkieston Rings

Milkieston Rings is a prehistoric site, a hillfort near the village of Eddleston and about 3 miles (5 km) north of Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is a Scheduled Monument.

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Milkieston Rings

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Shipston-on-Stour RFC

Shipston-on-Stour Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire. They currently play in Regional 2 West Midlands - a tier 6 league in the English rugby union system - following the club's promotion from Southern Counties North - due to the restructure of the English leagues at the end of the 2021-22 season.

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Shipston-on-Stour RFC

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Bowbeat Hill

Bowbeat Hill is a hill in the Moorfoot Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lends its name to Bowbeat Onshore Wind Farm built on the hill and commissioned in 2003. The wind farm produces 31.2MW of power using 24 turbines. It is commonly ascended with its neighbouring hills from Gladhouse Reservoir to the north.

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Battle of Happrew

The Battle of Happrew was a skirmish which took place around 20 February 1304, during the First War of Scottish Independence. A chevauchée of English knights, which included Robert de Clifford, William de Latimer, and the later Scottish King, Robert the Bruce had been sent south from Dunfermline under Sir John Segrave to locate and capture the rebels Sir William Wallace and Sir Simon Fraser.

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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is an Anglican church in the village of Long Compton, in Warwickshire, England. It is in the Diocese of Coventry, and is one of seven churches in the South Warwickshire Benefice. The building, dating from the early 13th century, is Grade I listed.

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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton

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