But the mainstay of the county was the sheep on the chalk downs around Dorchester and the cattle in the vale of Blackmoor to the north. |
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All through the summer the sound of weapon on shield echoed through the vale as warriors honed their fighting skills. |
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While God reigns in heaven, human beings inhabit an inferior and comparatively worthless vale of tears. |
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The forms of common worship are sufficient to all the joys and sorrows that befall us in this vale of tears. |
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A lovely vale of greensward called Princes Street Gardens separates the two towns, and several bridges span the shallow valley. |
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The world is the theater of God's activity and a place of soul-making rather than simply an unhappy vale of tears. |
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A vale businessman is embarking on a charity transatlantic crossing in a yacht named after the doctor who saved his life. |
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Of course the Lady Regent of the vale was standing placidly beside the open Moon Door, the wind rustling her robes. |
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Orpheus retrieves Eurydice from the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her shadow until both have emerged from the vale of Avernus. |
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What favor was it to other souls to bring them into this vale of tears? |
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She lies buried beside her beloved Piozzi at Tremeirchion church in the vale of Clwyd. |
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He departed this vale two decades or so ago, give or take a few years. |
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West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys. |
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Vania has headed Human Resources and Corporate Services, in addition to the vale Foundation. |
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North and west of the chalkland is the hill and vale country that separates the lowlands of southern England from the more rugged terrain of the west. |
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He gestured for everyone to look down into a little vale that opened up to the side of their path. |
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The vale is in the rain shadow of the Pennines so has a lower rainfall total than areas to the west. |
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The view north from the vale is dominated by the mountains Blencathra and Skiddaw. |
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On the opposite side of the vale, cut into the northern flank of Clough Head, lies the Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum. |
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The southern end of the vale is a narrow pass between High Rigg and Great Dodd, just to the north of the small settlement of Legburthwaite. |
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The vale is in the heart of the northern Lake District and is surrounded by many of the most striking of the Lakeland fells. |
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Within the vale are a number of farms and small settlements, in addition to several disused quarry and mining works. |
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The city of York tends to dominate the vale economically and is a centre for tourism, retail, commerce, light engineering and food processing. |
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There are also frequent stream courses and drainage channels which link with the main rivers crossing the vale. |
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This pass provides access for suitably capable vehicles between the vale and Dale Bottom in the Naddle Valley to the west of High Rigg. |
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The Escrick moraine extends across the vale from west to east and the York moraine, 8 miles further north, forms a similar curving ridge from York eastwards to Sand Hutton. |
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Many of these watercourses are maintained and managed by local internal drainage boards to ensure sustainable water levels are kept across the vale. |
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It is also subject to more fog and frosts in winter than other areas because of the tendency of cold air to drain into the vale from surrounding higher ground. |
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The main characteristic of the vale of Mowbray is the fertile agricultural land used for crops and permanent grassland, though isolated pockets of woodland remain. |
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The western margin of the vale is composed of Permian Magnesian Limestone and further to the west are Carboniferous Millstone Grit and Coal Measures. |
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The largest settlement in the vale, apart from York, is Haxby. |
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Applied to the new data on voles, his theory suggests that greater environmental demands on spatial navigation among olygamous vale voes lead to larger hippocampi. |
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The coastal strip is sandy but a short way into the hinterland, the ground rises towards the vale of Ypres, which before 1914 was a flourishing market garden. |
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Hanging in the heart of Edinburgh, Constable's vision of Dedham Vale is a wistful window on to the very soul of rural England. |
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The charm made in Blackmore Vale Dairy was good against the king's evil and tubercular wounds. |
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The experience at Scotland's Cornton Vale women's prison is also highlighted as demonstrating the impact drug withdrawal can have on the mental health of prisoners. |
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Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on. |
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The richest source for steam coal was the Rhondda Valleys, and by 1856 the Taff Vale Railway had reached the heads of both valleys. |
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The first railway network to be built in Glamorgan, the Taff Vale Railway, was also the first in Wales. |
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Linking the ironworks of Merthyr to the ports of Cardiff, the Taff Vale line was given royal assent in 1836, with work commencing the same year. |
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The cargo carried on these lines was of a very high volume, and in 1850 the Taff Vale Railway was transporting 600,000 tons of coal per annum. |
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Towards the turn of the 19th century, two notable events occurred connected to the Taff Vale Railway. |
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He was probably educated locally, and was certainly influenced by the literary traditions of the Vale of Clwyd. |
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From 1840, the Taff Vale Railway company developed a railway line through Cathays, where they also developed the Cathays railway works. |
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Two years after the October 1839 dock opening, the Taff Vale Railway was opened, following much the same route as the canal. |
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The Taff Vale Railway was built to transport coal from the South Wales Valleys to the docks. |
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From the Vale of Clwyd, Iolo Goch bridged between the period of the Poets of the Princes and Poets of the Nobility. |
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The Beeching cuts of the 1960s saw the loss of passenger rail links in the Vale of Glamorgan and to the northern valleys. |
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The city's other professional football club is Port Vale, who were formed in 1876 and play at Vale Park in the Burslem area. |
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Initially, the Cardiff Blues' region covered only the City of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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Rather than playing the game at either Ebbw Vale or Merthyr, the neutral ground of Aberdare Athletic Ground was chosen by the Northern Union. |
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The second Welsh League tournament was contested between Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil and Treherbert. |
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Williams was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, and started playing snooker at an early age. |
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The song was debuted live by the band on Monday 22 October at BBC Radio 1's Rock Week where they performed at Maida Vale studios. |
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He was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium, but his ashes were scattered from the top of Llanwonno, over his beloved Ferndale. |
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If implemented it would provide an hourly service between Newport and Ebbw Vale. |
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Lias Group strata form imposing cliffs on the Vale of Glamorgan coast, in southern Wales. |
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In England hoards of Viking silver such as the Cuerdale Hoard and the Vale of York Hoard, offer good insight to this phenomenon. |
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According to professor Malcolm Vale, the treaty of Paris was one of the indirect causes of the Hundred Years' War. |
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The Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve in West Sussex has one of Europe's largest yew woodlands. |
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The Vale of Pewsey has been cut through the chalk into Greensand and Oxford Clay in the centre of the county. |
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Other settlements on the island are Old Town, Porthloo, Pelistry, Trenoweth, Holy Vale, Maypole, Normandy, Longstone, Rocky Hill and Telegraph. |
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In September 1994, Beckham went on to gain his first full appearance in the club's first team against Port Vale in a League Cup fixture. |
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This is demonstrated very clearly beneath the scarp of the White Horse Hills, above the Vale of White Horse. |
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It extended from the Humber to the Tees, and from the sea to the western edge of the Vale of York. |
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The partnership was dissolved before Mary's death, Baylies taking over Vale Royal. |
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The Company also secured Vale Royal Furnace in central Cheshire, but this did not come into their possession before Abraham Darby's death. |
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The city and the adjoining Vale of Glamorgan contribute a disproportionately high share of economic output in Wales. |
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From the 1970s on, the steel industry contracted, with works at Ebbw Vale, Shotton and East Moors in Cardiff closing and layoffs elsewhere. |
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On 28 November 2006, a trial of a new telecommunications network technology was rolled out in the village of Wick in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The A591 connects Grasmere to the Vale of Keswick over Dunmail Raise to the north, and Ambleside to the south. |
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The road crosses the Marston Vale Line, then enters Bedford as Ampthill Road. |
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Lord's Seat is the hub of the most northerly sector, rising between Whinlatter Pass and the Vale of Embleton. |
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The principal feature of these fells is a ridge running from the Vale of Lorton in the west to Bassenthwaite Lake in the east. |
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In the north is the Vale of Keswick, providing wide and total separation from Skiddaw and the Northern Fells. |
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The parallel eastern boundary is created by Thirlmere and the Vale of St John, all of these valleys ultimately joining the River Derwent. |
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South of Dunmail Raise the Vale of Grasmere runs down to Windermere, forming the remainder of the eastern boundary. |
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A Keswick bank manager objected because the dam would be vulnerable to a waterspout, experienced in St John's Vale many times. |
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Steep rocky crags guard the whole western side of the fell, rising abruptly from the green valley of St John's in the Vale. |
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The B5289 serves Lorton Vale and Buttermere and links via the Honister Pass with Borrowdale. |
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It was the Pennine transport corridor from Cumbria and Strathclyde to the Vale of York. |
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To the north lie the Tees Valley lowlands and to the south the Vale of Mowbray becomes the Vale of York proper. |
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The Vale of Mowbray is distinguishable from the Vale of York by its meandering rivers and more undulating landscape. |
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The roads in the Vale of Mowbray are characteristically contained by low hedges with wide verges. |
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The Vale of York is often supposed to stretch from the River Tees in the north to the Humber estuary in the south. |
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There are further occurrences in the Vale of Glamorgan, both inland and on the coast. |
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The B5292 ascends the Whinlatter Pass from Lorton Vale before dropping down to Braithwaite near Keswick. |
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The North Western Fells lie between Borrowdale and Bassenthwaite Lake to the east and Buttermere and Lorton Vale to the west. |
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Borland UK, Interserve and Mabey Group, the bridge manufacturer, are in Twyford and Cawston Vale is in Hurst. |
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The River Nidd rises on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and flows along Nidderdale before reaching the Vale of York and the Ouse. |
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As with the rest of the Vale of York the city's climate is drier and warmer than the rest of the Yorkshire and Humberside region. |
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This included the construction of large tower block estates, such as Castle Vale. |
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Existing communities were relocated to tower block estates like Castle Vale. |
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One of the first acts of the new Liberal Government was to reverse the Taff Vale judgement. |
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Also created at this time were the vast underground reserves of water that make the water table higher than average in the Vale of Aylesbury. |
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The Dales comprises river valleys and the hills, rising from the Vale of York westwards to the hilltops of the Pennine watershed. |
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Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit, used to visit her uncle Edmund Potter at his printworks in Dinting Vale. |
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The nearest head of steel is located on the East Somerset Railway at Mendip Vale. |
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Between Bletchley and Bedford the track is open and in daily passenger use as the Marston Vale line. |
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The Tees Lowlands lie to the north of the North York Moors and the Vale of Pickering lies to the south. |
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New DAB stations have recently proliferated, such a Vale Radio, that broadcasts through 4 DAB transmitters to the whole of North Yorkshire. |
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In 1896 Blackpool from the Lancashire League and Gainsborough Trinity from the Midland League replaced Burslem Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra. |
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The M25, M26 and M20 motorways all use the Vale of Holmesdale to the north, and therefore run along or near the northern edge of the Weald. |
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Alun Cairns, who represents the Vale of Glamorgan constituency in the Westminster Parliament, is currently the Secretary of State for Wales. |
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The Surf Life Saving Association of Wales is based in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The town grew rapidly from the 1830s onwards, when the Marquess of Bute built a dock, which eventually linked to the Taff Vale Railway. |
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Dairying is still undertaken in the coastal areas such as the Gower and Vale of Glamorgan where there is also some arable farming production. |
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On its creation, British Railways' assets included the narrow gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway in Ceredigion, Wales. |
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The Vale of Rheidol Railway was privatised in 1989 and continues to operate as a private heritage railway. |
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The BBC SO is a resident orchestra at the Barbican Centre, and gives studio concerts from its base at BBC Maida Vale studios. |
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Henderson urged him to take elocution lessons and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London. |
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He remained there for five terms and was then educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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Vale of Leven, Dumbarton and Renton were also successful during this period. |
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For example, the Trefriw Woollen Mills, originally called the Vale of Conwy Woollen Mill, was built in 1820 on the banks of the Afon Crafnant. |
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They included the Brecon and Merthyr Railway, Vale of Neath Railway, Taff Vale Railway and Great Western Railway. |
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This coal was valuable for steam railways and steam ships, and an export trade began, via the Taff Vale Railway and the port of Cardiff. |
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Historically part of Flintshire, the city of St Asaph is surrounded by countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd. |
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The nearest railway station to the Airport is Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station on the Vale of Glamorgan Line. |
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It includes lines within the city itself, the Vale of Glamorgan and the South Wales Valleys. |
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If the line is closed between Cardiff Central and Bridgend, an alternative route exists along the Vale of Glamorgan Line. |
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In 1858, it was intended to extend the Vale of Clwyd line from Denbigh to Ruthin. |
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The building of parish churches also began in the 12th century, densely in the Vale, but very sparsely in the upland and northern areas. |
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As part of Great Britain, the Vale of York generally has cool summers and relatively mild winters. |
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The Vale of York is drained southwards by the River Ouse and its tributaries, the Ure, the Nidd and the Foss. |
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To its west lies the Vale of Eden and to its north is the Northumberland Trough. |
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Junction 29a at Markham Vale, Duckmanton opened at the end of June 2008, but the signs do not signpost Chesterfield. |
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They field three senior sides, with teams at most junior age groups, and play at Holden Road, the site of Belvedere and Calder Vale Sports Club. |
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Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism Ken Skates visited the war memorial in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, yesterday. |
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The 2012 National Eisteddfod will take place on the former RAF airfield at Llandow in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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Ward has been placed in temporary charge at Edgeley Park, but reports have linked the Hatters with amove for Port Vale assistant Geoff Horsfield. |
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Judith Watkins is centre manager for arts and crafts charity Re-create, part of the Cardiff and the Vale Play Services Association. |
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We don't need cycle lanes, we need road repairs and the sooner the knuckleheads at the Vale realise it the better. |
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Augustine, the municipality of Moura, and the parishes of Sinks and Vale de Vargo, the municipality of Serpa, Beja district is located. |
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With the death of his wife Lysa, he will attempt to declare himself the Lord Protector of the Vale. |
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Cardiff 's International White Water rafting venue, the Celtic Manor Resort and the Llanerch vineyard in the Vale of Glamorgan were among the South Wales winners. |
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The game's squares and cards have been revised to tell the story of Alan Turing's life, from his birthplace in Maida Vale to Hut 8 at Bletchley Park. |
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They and another 12 fans have been banned from attending future matches after they were all involved in violence following the Wrexham and Port Vale match last October. |
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These include sandstones, greensands, oolitic limestone of the Cotswold Hills, corallian limestone of the Vale of White Horse and the Isle of Portland. |
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The figures showed that Bridgend had the most zero-rated premises, standing at 11, while Rhondda Cynon Taf had nine and the Vale of Glmorgan had eight. |
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Nigel Paul Williams was only identified through his DNA after his body was found on April 8 last year at his home at Rechabite Hall, Crescent Street, Merthyr Vale. |
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Neighbouring natural regions include The Culm to the southwest, the Devon Redlands to the south and the Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes to the east. |
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The Vale of York is an area of flat land in the northeast of England. |
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The eight seats lost by Labour to the Conservatives were Bolton West, Derby North, Gower, Morley and Outwood, Plymouth Moorview, Southampton Itchen, Telford and Vale of Clywd. |
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Promotion to the Second Division for the first time since the 1960s was secured in 1989, and Vale would spend nine of the next 11 years at this level. |
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An outcrop extends from Kirkby Stephen along the western side of the Vale of Eden and wraps around the northern margin of the Lake District as far as Cleator Moor. |
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The fell stands south of the village of Threlkeld and the A66 road, and it forms the steep eastern side of the tranquil valley of St John's in the Vale. |
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York's location on the River Ouse and in the centre of the Vale of York means that it has always had a significant position in the nation's transport system. |
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Vale were awarded a penalty 15m out which they ran, linking quick rucks then their back-line, putting Harrison Ashby in space to outpace the defence to score in the corner. |
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The most northerly of the rivers in the Ouse system is the River Swale, which drains Swaledale before passing through Richmond and meandering across the Vale of Mowbray. |
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At Furness Vale it passes the railway station and the primary school. |
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To the east, beyond Castlerigg stone circle, is St John's in the Vale, at the foot of the Helvellyn range, which is popular with ramblers starting from Keswick. |
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An engraving entitled 'The Vale of Lonsdale' appears in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832 together with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. |
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The Blackmore Vale is composed of older Jurassic deposits, largely clays interspersed with limestones, and has traditionally been a centre for dairy agriculture. |
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Blandford Forum, Sherborne, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton are historic market towns which serve the farms and villages of the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset. |
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Cooke was born in Swansea, and grew up in Wick, Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The Dragons were formed on 1 April 2003, following an agreement between Ebbw Vale RFC and Newport RFC to form one of five regional rugby entities. |
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Cardiff Blues are responsible for developing rugby union in the city of Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and south Powys. |
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Premier Foods make Mr Kipling slices and Cherry Bakewells in Trent Vale. |
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Also flowing into Cardiff Docks is the River Ely, which separates Cardiff from the headland and seaside resort of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The name also survives in that of Vale of Glamorgan, a county borough. |
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Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. |
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Cardiff Queen Street is in the east of the centre and is the city's main hub for urban services to the rest of Cardiff, its valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The Vale of Glamorgan Council agreed to hand over a publicly owned road passing in front of the Airport terminal to control of the Airport authority on security grounds. |
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There is a single rail link to the Rhondda, the Rhondda Line, based around the old Taff Vale Railway which serviced both the Rhondda Fach and Rhondda Fawr. |
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Cardiff Central offers connections to the South Wales Valleys, the Vale of Glamorgan and West Wales, and Swansea offers connections to West Wales. |
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In Wales, Labour held 25 seats and gained Cardiff North, Gower and Vale of Clwyd from the Conservatives, leaving the Welsh Tories with eight seats. |
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The narrow gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway in Aberystwyth, Mid Wales was unique in Britain, being the only steam railway to be operated by British Rail. |
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Services currently run between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff via Rogerstone. |
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The Heads of the Valleys towns, including Rhymney, Tredegar and Ebbw Vale, rose out of the industrial revolution, producing coal, metal ores and later steel. |
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The coastal plain is narrow in the north and west of the country but wider in the south, where the Vale of Glamorgan has some of the best agricultural land. |
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More properly it is just the central part of this area which is truly the Vale of York, with the Vale of Mowbray to its north and the Humberhead Levels to its south. |
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The Vale of York and The Fens host many of England's larger rivers. |
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Beneath the drift deposits of the Vale of York lie Triassic sandstone and mudstone, and lower Jurassic mudstone but these are completely masked by the surface deposits. |
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All hospitals in Cardiff are administered by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, with the exception of the Velindre site which is run by a separate trust. |
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The drier land in the Vale of York, away from the river valleys, would have been extensively cleared for pastoral farming and small scale cropping before the Roman era. |
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In the north the levels merge into the slightly more undulating Vale of York close to the Escrick glacial moraine, and to the south merge into the Trent Vale. |
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The Welsh Lacrosse Association is based at Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The Welsh Archery Association is based in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The three spires of Lichfield are known as The Ladies of the Vale. |
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Music teacher Andrew Turner, 38, went into sudden anaphylactic shock after he ate the bread with soup while at a friend's house in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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Accrington, Bacup, Barnoldswick, Blackburn, Burnley, Calder Vale, Chorley, Colne, Darwen, Nelson, Oakenclough, Padiham, Preston for others see table below. |
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Penalty Castle Vale advanced their cause by defeating Pershore Town 3-1 at King George's, where Town took the lead in the 20th minute courtesy of Stuart Whally. |
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