He has been working the land at Mersehead, on the Solway Firth, for 30 years, and knows it like the back of his hand. |
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It has recently been suggested that a deck hatch was missing from the Solway Harvester and this could have allowed water to swamp the hold, sinking the boat in minutes. |
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The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl. |
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Cumbria's northern boundary stretches from the Solway Firth from the Solway Plain eastward along the border with Scotland to Northumberland. |
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Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth. |
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The English section of the Irish Sea coast ends at the border with Scotland in the Solway Firth. |
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The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West. |
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Dumfries Ice Bowl is also home to two synchronised skating teams, Solway Stars and Solway Eclipse. |
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Unlike other parts of the west coast of Scotland, the Solway Firth is generally devoid of islands. |
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North of the area defined by Wainwright the countryside takes on a moorland character, gradually declining toward the Solway Firth. |
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The Scots were defeated at Battle of Solway Moss on 24 November 1542, and James died on 15 December. |
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The Solway Coast and Arnside and Silverdale AONB's lie in the lowland areas of the county, to the north and south respectively. |
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The campaign featured the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth, currently in development. |
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It is bounded to the west by the Solway Firth, part of the Irish Sea, and by the Lake District fells to the east. |
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All streams to the north eventually flow into the Solway Firth, and those to the south flow into Morecambe Bay. |
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The line of joining, or suture, is approximately under the Solway Firth and Cheviot Hills. |
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The River Eden is a river that flows through the Eden District of Cumbria, England, on its way to the Solway Firth. |
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On the northern side of Cross Fell there are also fine views across the Solway Firth to the Southern Uplands of Scotland. |
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Petillius Cerealis advanced through Solway as they continued their campaign further north. |
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This enabled other industrial centres such as Liverpool to link with Carlisle via the Solway. |
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With a body of the town's people joining Wallace and his fellow pursuers when they arrived, the fleeing English met their end at Cockpool on the Solway Coast. |
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There are scattered outcrops along the north coast of the Solway Firth. |
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Two colonies of the tadpole shrimp, Triops cancriformis, were found at Caerlaverock on the Solway Coast of Dumfriesshire, reports the Independent. |
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It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. |
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The Solway Firth forms the estuary of the River Eden and the River Esk. |
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The Ministry of Defence had by 1999 fired more than 6,350 depleted uranium rounds into the Solway Firth from its testing range at Dundrennan Range. |
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The Svalbard barnacle goose, which overwinters in the Solway Firth, saw numbers plummet to just 300 by the 1940s but the population recovered to some 30,000 today. |
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In this period, the kingdom of Strathclyde may have extended far to the south, perhaps beyond the Solway Firth into modern English Cumbria, although this is far from certain. |
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The Solway Harvester trawler sank in heavy storms off the Isle of Man in January 2000 and its seven crew, from the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire, were all killed. |
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The final quarter is taken up by the coastal plain and the distant Solway Firth, backed by the hills of Galloway such as Merrick, Criffel and Broad Law. |
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Carrock Fell is bounded to the south and east by the River Caldew into which all drainage from the fell goes to find its way eventually to the Solway Firth. |
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Grasmoor and its supporters restrict the southward panorama, but there is no such obstruction to the north, the Scottish Hills being visible across the Solway Firth. |
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