The huge jebels rise sheer from the sandy valley floor overshadowing the small but growing settlement of Rum. |
|
The road wends its way queasily from valley to valley, dipping and rising through dappled woodland. |
|
Underneath you could plant Mahonia japonica, a handsome all-year round shrub, with lily of the valley scented yellow flowers in early winter. |
|
The road wends queasily from valley to valley, dipping and rising through dappled woodland. |
|
He now spends his days driving his weakening cattle back and forth across the valley first to find meagre pasture and then to find water. |
|
The Chichghat valley is a dense natural forest with ponds and waterholes, grasslands and meadows. |
|
The valley is quite narrow and steep-sided, so you do not see out, but it's full of interest. |
|
He saw it, with a shock, much closer than expected, in the air space above the valley floor. |
|
Water ran down the sides of the valley to join the river and fell in waterfalls and bright sheets over the road. |
|
Avram lives in the next valley over from me in a rammed earth house on a hill above the Kenwood winery. |
|
In actuality, there were less than 300 U.S. soldiers in the valley at any given time. |
|
The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water. |
|
In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus. |
|
Soldiers rotated out of the valley from other bases in the Pech for a weekend of relief from the fighting before being sent back. |
|
We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor. |
|
The scientific term for the disease is coccidioidomycosis, most commonly known as valley fever. |
|
Eventually the eucalyptus and green fields of the valley bottom give way again to the lush sub-tropical rainforest that grows on the surrounding sandstone escarpments. |
|
The Inn valley is an example of a valley carved by glaciers during the ice ages with a typical terraced structure caused by erosion. |
|
Eroded rocks from the most recent ice age lie at the bottom of the valley while the top of the valley consists of erosion from earlier ice ages. |
|
Some of the valleys are quite arid such as the Aosta valley in Italy, the Maurienne in France, the Valais in Switzerland, and northern Tyrol. |
|
|
Swaledale is a breed of domestic sheep named after the Yorkshire valley of Swaledale in England. |
|
Seathwaite is a small hamlet in Borrowdale valley in the Lake District of Cumbria, North West England. |
|
After the ice retreated, the valley was further developed by a meltwater stream flowing across the limestone while it was frozen solid. |
|
The valley section stretches from Longyang Gorge in Qinghai to Qingtong Gorge in Gansu. |
|
The famous Hukou Waterfall is in the lower part of this valley on the border of Shanxi and Shaanxi. |
|
It was drained in 2011, the dam removed and the valley returned to its original form. |
|
Hawkshead is just north of Esthwaite Water, in a valley to the west of Windermere and east of Coniston Water. |
|
Buttermere is situated on the B5289 road that runs beside Crummock Water and along the valley of the River Cocker north to Cockermouth. |
|
It is located on the B5289 road, linking Seatoller, in the valley of Borrowdale, to Gatesgarth at the southern end of Buttermere. |
|
Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. |
|
The valley rises in the central Lake District and runs north carrying the River Derwent into the lake of Derwent Water. |
|
To the west of the Hawse is the valley of Tarn Head Beck, the main feeder of Seathwaite Tarn, a reservoir in a side valley of the Duddon system. |
|
The valley then opens out around Grange before the river empties into Derwent Water, overlooked by Catbells, Skiddaw and Walla Crag. |
|
The valley lends its name to the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, a geological development from the Ordovician period. |
|
The valley is a tourist location, with hotels, guesthouses, holiday cottages, bed and breakfasts, youth hostels and campsites. |
|
The valley and its surrounding mountains are described in sympathetic detail. |
|
The third arm is a truncated spur, running only half a mile to the summit of the Old Man before tumbling away south eastward to the valley floor. |
|
Langdale is also the name of a valley in the Howgill Fells, elsewhere in Cumbria. |
|
The mouth of the valley is located at Skelwith Bridge, which lies about two miles west of the town of Ambleside. |
|
The Langdale valley contains two villages, Chapel Stile and Elterwater, and a hamlet at High Close. |
|
|
Little Langdale is a valley in the Lake District, England containing Little Langdale Tarn and a hamlet also called Little Langdale. |
|
A second tarn, Blea Tarn, is in a hanging valley between Little Langdale and the larger Great Langdale to the north. |
|
It is this ridge which divides Oxendale from Mickleden, making straight for Stool End Farm on the valley floor. |
|
Harter Fell turns its smoother back to Kentmere, saving its more impressive side for the head of Mardale, the valley holding Haweswater. |
|
The rock in the valley is generally Borrowdale tuff and rhyolite with andesite sills with areas of slate, particularly to the south. |
|
Blea Tarn is situated in a small hanging valley between Great Langdale and Little Langdale. |
|
The catchment area is a sheepfarm of rough grassland and sphagnum bog in the valley bottom and surrounding fellside. |
|
The valley with Castle Howe on the left and the Langdale Pikes on the horizon to the right. |
|
Eskdale is a glacial valley and civil parish in the western Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. |
|
Eastward again are the parallel valley of Longsleddale and the further ridge running from Branstree to Grey Crag. |
|
To the south of High Street is the long valley of Kentmere, blessed with fine ridges on either flank to make a splendid horseshoe walk. |
|
A less steep pass to Eskdale over Birker Fell leaves the valley at Ulpha, with extensive views of the Scafell range. |
|
The valley forms part of the civil parish of Above Derwent, within the Borough of Allerdale. |
|
The earliest signs of human settlement in the valley have been found at Ullock, where evidence of a Bronze Age burial site has been found. |
|
Many of the present day place names in the Newlands valley have their origins from these early Norse settlers. |
|
The only tarn in the valley is Brothers Water, one of the first places in the Lakes to be acquired by the National Trust. |
|
The valley is thinly populated, consisting mainly of farms and tourist accommodation. |
|
Further up the valley to the north is the lake of Ullswater with Gowbarrow Fell and Hallin Fell overlooking it. |
|
The scenery of the Newlands valley consists of farmland in the valley bottom and soaring fells above. |
|
Small cirque and valley glaciers formed in north and east facing valleys, including Grisedale and the coves on the east side of Helvellyn. |
|
|
The man left home at two in the morning, rode to Glencoyne and left his horse at a house in the valley there. |
|
Longsleddale is a valley and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. |
|
This appears to be a reference to a steep valley just below Red Screes, and which contains a sheepfold called Clough Fold. |
|
The Track up to Harter Fell, the River Sprint runs down the valley to the left of the track. |
|
Haweswater is a reservoir in the English Lake District, built in the valley of Mardale in the county of Cumbria. |
|
Also, many desired to maintain the picturesque valley in its existing state. |
|
The valley is sandwiched between Troutbeck on the west side and Longsleddale on the east. |
|
Other tributaries within the valley include Ullstone Gill, Nunnery Beck, Nuttera Beck, Park Beck and Hall Beck. |
|
The second straddles the Kent further up the valley and is known as Scrogg's Bridge. |
|
The main rocks and minerals to be found in the valley are green slate and granite. |
|
This gill contains a considerable flow of water in its rocky gorge, but it often has only a dry bed by the time it gets down to valley level. |
|
The manor, having been handed down to the eldest son, the rest of the valley was divided between the younger sons of the Gilpins for generations. |
|
Despite this, the narrowing of the Adour valley allows easier crossing than anywhere else along the entire length of the estuary. |
|
For a valley of its size, Kentmere has produced more than its fair share of famous families. |
|
The hills dip steeply forming a scarp onto the Thames valley to the north, and dip gently to the south. |
|
Steep rocky crags guard the whole western side of the fell, rising abruptly from the green valley of St John's in the Vale. |
|
A steep valley to the east of Threlkeld Knotts, which begins immediately below Red Screes, is the clough from which Clough Head is named. |
|
When enough snow accumulates it can flow out the opening of the bowl and form valley glaciers which may be several kilometers long. |
|
In the Glenderaterra valley to the west of Blease Fell were Brundholme and Blencathra mines. |
|
Including such favourites as Catbells and Grisedale Pike, they occupy an oval area beneath the Buttermere and Borrowdale valley systems. |
|
|
The eastern wall of the valley is formed by the High Spy to Catbells ridge, separating it from Borrowdale. |
|
Robinson appears bland from Buttermere, smooth rounded slopes curving up from the valley floor. |
|
This valley runs north east, flanked by parallel ridges descending from Robinson and Hindscarth, its stream being named Scope Beck. |
|
To the south of Grasmoor is the valley of Rannerdale, which flows to Crummock Water between Lad Hows and the neighbouring Wandope. |
|
The northern flank of the ridge stands above Liza Beck, in the valley of Gasgale Gill. |
|
Coledale is a valley in the northwestern region of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. |
|
Wordsworth's favourite valley was Dunnerdale or the Duddon Valley nestling in the south west of the Lake District. |
|
At the head of the valley a large rock formation is found named Force Crag, which forms a waterfall 'Low Force' as Pudding Beck passes over it. |
|
The Western Fells form the southern wall of the Buttermere valley and the northern fence of Wasdale. |
|
More commonly thought of as a Wasdale Fell, its profile from that valley gives it its name. |
|
Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders. |
|
Uzbekistan also has oilfields in the Ferghana valley in the north-east, the Ustyurt area, and the Aral Sea. |
|
Finally on the west rough slopes fall below the rocks of White Napes to the narrow valley of Gable Beck, a tributary of Lingmell Beck. |
|
To the east of Pots of Ashness is the valley of Nether Beck, flowing to Wastwater, with Red Pike beyond. |
|
Middle Fell curves around to run parallel to Seatallan with the valley of Greendale Gill dividing the two. |
|
This valley is eighty-seven miles long. It did not have the fertileness of Brown's Park. |
|
To the west runs the long valley of Borrowdale, flowing in this instance from Stake Pass at the head of Langstrath, all the way to Keswick. |
|
To the west of the Central Ridge a lower spur encloses the quiet valley of Watendlath. |
|
The Central Lowlands is a rift valley mainly comprising Paleozoic formations. |
|
Great Dodd and Stybarrow Dodd throw out long ridges to the east, enclosing the marshy valley of Deepdale. |
|
|
Beneath the north face is the steep valley or clough from which Clough Head gets its name. |
|
As sea levels rose, the river valley became flooded, and the chalk ridge line west of the Needles breached to form the island. |
|
Settlements were often located in narrow valley bottoms, possibly associated with hunting of passing herds of animals. |
|
Bassenthwaite Lake occupies the valley between this massif and the North Western Fells. |
|
The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep escarpments down to the Severn valley and the Warwickshire Avon. |
|
Major roads and railways follow the east coast route and various valley routes radiating northwards from the Carlisle area. |
|
The Late Copper Age is regarded as a continuous culture system connecting the Upper Rhine valley to the western edge of the Carpathian Basin. |
|
The Burgundians expanded their kingdom in the Rhone valley and the Vandals took the remains of the Diocese of Africa. |
|
The kingdom was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries, in the region now known as the English Midlands. |
|
The offensive in the Rhine river valley area started on 7 September, four days after France declared war on Germany. |
|
The Quaternary undersea valley Fosse Dangaered, and Castle Hill landslip at the English portal, caused concerns. |
|
The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. |
|
Upon the valley sides there can be seen other terraces of brickearth, laid over and sometimes interlayered with the clays. |
|
The utopian News from Nowhere by William Morris is mainly the account of a journey through the Thames valley in a socialist future. |
|
The South Tyne rises on Alston Moor, Cumbria and flows through the towns of Haltwhistle and Haydon Bridge, in a valley often called the Tyne Gap. |
|
He was referring to Longdendale, and the upper valley of the River Etherow. |
|
The southern Cheviot hills encompass the slopes running down to the valley of the river Coquet. |
|
The most distinctive of these is chalk grassland which is largely limited to steep escarpment and valley slopes. |
|
Within the valley is a sawmill, formerly powered by the River Avill, which runs through the valley. |
|
Next up the valley beyond him lived Phineas Cowan, whose inclinations, in spite of his advanced age, were lustful and lickerous. |
|
|
Because of its valley location and character, Church Stretton is sometimes referred to as Little Switzerland. |
|
Its position allowed it to dominate the Fosse Way, as well as the river valley and the crossing over the River Avon. |
|
There are limited areas of fertile greensand which can be used for intensive vegetable growing, as in the valley of the Western Rother. |
|
Glacial erosion on the north side of the crag gouged a deep valley later filled by the now drained Nor Loch. |
|
To the south, the kingdom extended some distance up the valley of the Clyde, and along the coast probably extended south towards Ayr. |
|
The Corps then prepared to capture two railway tunnels linking Maungdaw with the Kalapanzin valley but the Japanese struck first. |
|
Historically, this valley has been the most agriculturally productive region of Scotland. |
|
It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south. |
|
The coincidence between the branches of the Warrensburg Sandstone and the valley anticlines implies some relationship between the two. |
|
These Desmoinesian shales and limestones gene rally dip away from the valley center, creating a valley anticline beneath the unconformity. |
|
This meant that many rows of terraced housing were built along the valley sides to accommodate the influx. |
|
In 1966, the village of Aberfan in the Taff valley suffered one of the worst disasters in Welsh history. |
|
Rugby union is very popular and pitches can be seen along the valley floors. |
|
Landslide lakes are lakes created by the blockage of a valley by either mudflows, rockslides, or screes. |
|
The central part of the city lies in a valley through which flows the channeled Tijuana River. |
|
By Part VIII, the valley is obviously accessible because a herd of stegosauri is passing through. |
|
From here, it runs eastwards through a large valley via Bruck south of Lake Zell to Schwarzach im Pongau. |
|
Minutes later, unseen by the defenders, he semaphored back across the valley that he was going to make a fresh attempt. |
|
In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. |
|
The drop of the center creates the nearly parallel steeply dipping walls of a rift valley when it is new. |
|
|
South Brent is a large village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. |
|
It was once found in North Africa along the Nile valley up to Khartum and north of the Sahara. |
|
The river valley largely comprises alluvium deposits and there are also igneous intrusions of olivine dolerite throughout the area. |
|
The Scottish Highland communities of upstate New York and the Cape Fear valley of North Carolina were centers of Loyalist resistance. |
|
Another battle was fought against the flooding of the Swincombe valley to form another reservoir. |
|
Early activity was mainly by levels or adits driven into coal seams from outcrops in the valley sides. |
|
Landslipping of the steep valley slopes, and subsidence caused by the coal extraction, have also posed problems. |
|
To the north of the Sambre and Meuse valley lies the Central Belgian plateau, which is characterized by intensive agriculture. |
|
In ancient times, the Sambre and Meuse valley was an important industrial area in the Roman Empire. |
|
A glacier that fills a valley is called a valley glacier, or alternatively an alpine glacier or mountain glacier. |
|
Marginal crevasses form from the edge of the glacier, due to the reduction in speed caused by friction of the valley walls. |
|
A fourth, in the valley of the River Swincombe was rejected by the advisory committee of the County Council. |
|
Grimspound is located in the valley between Hameldown Tor and Hookney Tor, at 450 metres above sea level. |
|
Many valley sides are now a mass of bracken with scattered hawthorn, much loved by whinchats. |
|
Roman engineers used inverted siphons to move water across a valley if they judged it impractical to build a raised aqueduct. |
|
These are long, narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. |
|
William moved up the Thames valley to cross the river at Wallingford, where he received the submission of Stigand. |
|
He may have been born in the old castle which occupied a rocky knoll on the valley floor. |
|
The line then went along the side of the valley coming to a halt just outside the town centre on Station Road. |
|
For several hundred years the valley of the River Taff was heavily wooded, with a few scattered farms on the mountain slopes. |
|
|
In 1754, it was recorded that the valley was almost entirely populated by shepherds. |
|
The larger of the two valleys, the Rhondda Fawr, extends from Porth and rises through the valley until it reaches Blaenrhondda, near Treherbert. |
|
A viaduct took the line across the valley and into Thongsbridge where a station was sited. |
|
Cymmer and Ynysfach chapel would be the forerunners in a new religious movement in the valley for the next 150 years. |
|
The valley clubs also had no clubhouses, with most teams meeting, and changing, in the closest local public house. |
|
Longdendale is a valley in Northern England, north of Glossop and southwest of Holmfirth. |
|
Occasionally visible from the valley bottom road are the slowly fading fellside scars of the 18th and 19th century lead mining industry. |
|
Twelve houses and farms were submerged, and 48 people of the 67 who lived in the valley lost their homes. |
|
The Pennine valley ends at Richmond, where an important medieval castle still watches the important ford from the top of a cliff. |
|
The Lydbrook valley was also a thriving centre for metal industries, such as the manufacture of telegraph cables. |
|
It is hoped this may help relieve some of the current traffic congestion that the valley suffers from during the busiest months. |
|
The valley is famous for its cheese, with the main commercial production at Hawes. |
|
In 1745, John Egerton, later Bishop of Durham, started taking friends on boat trips down the valley from the rectory at Ross. |
|
More pronounced effects are observed, however, in particular valley regions within the Cordillera, in the direct lee of specific mountain ranges. |
|
Lower Priory, with the remains of a very early religious Priory, is located in a natural valley near the village of Thornton. |
|
Thermals rising up the valley sides to the south of the town are used for paragliding. |
|
This valley had for a number of years been known for its slate beds and had been worked on a very small scale. |
|
Edward and his troops took over the abbey site and moved the monks down the Conwy valley to a new site at Maenan, establishing Maenan Abbey. |
|
Because of its scenic qualities, the valley of the River Derwent sees many tourist visitors. |
|
It is situated in a deep valley where the River Gwaun meets the sea, hence the Welsh name for Fishguard. |
|
|
St David's Cathedral stands on the site of the monastery he founded in the Glyn Rhosyn valley of Pembrokeshire. |
|
Seeing that the Turkish army was too numerous to overcome, the Yemeni army retreated to a valley outside Mecca. |
|
Once the river leaves Dovedale it combines with the Manifold and enters a wider valley near Thorpe. |
|
The 2003 film, Calendar Girls, was filmed at several locations in the river valley including Buckden, Burnsall, Kettlewell and Kilnsey. |
|
Augustus John and his student James Dickson Innes spent two years painting in the Arenig valley around 1910, especially the mountain Arenig Fawr. |
|
Especially notable were those mills located in the valley at Goldendale and Shelton below the hill towns of Tunstall, Burslem and Hanley. |
|
Through the enormous dust cloud that the army raised the trees of the valley appeared as brown smudges against an ochreish sky. |
|
A graben is a valley with a distinct escarpment on each side caused by the displacement of a block of land downward. |
|
The half grabens may have alternating polarities along the rift axis, dividing the rift valley into segments. |
|
As the rift valley aged, extensive deformation developed on both sides of the lake, converting them into asymmetric full grabens. |
|
In 1820 the Crovan's Gate Mining Company extended the line up the valley to the mine by building a series of five inclined planes. |
|
In particular, the climate of the Po valley geographical region is mostly continental, with harsh winters and hot summers. |
|
Where the river valley changes course into Lower Wharfedale, the change of underlying rock can be seen in the darker stone in the field walls. |
|
Among the variety of birds that can be seen in the valley are golden plovers, curlews and oystercatchers. |
|
In 1795 it was diverted along the valley to Hawes and took the Widdale route, now the B6255 to Ingleton. |
|
The Posterior Rhine rises in the Rheinwald valley below Mount Rheinwaldhorn. |
|
Mid Wensleydale is made of Great Scar limestone under Yoredale beds that make up the valley sides which are marked with stepped limestone scars. |
|
Recessional moraines are often observed as a series of transverse ridges running across a valley behind a terminal moraine. |
|
A medial moraine is a ridge of moraine that runs down the center of a valley floor. |
|
It forms when two glaciers meet and the debris on the edges of the adjacent valley sides join and are carried on top of the enlarged glacier. |
|
|
As the glacier melts or retreats, the debris is deposited and a ridge down the middle of the valley floor is created. |
|
The Settle to Carlisle railway runs along the western side of the valley here. |
|
When the tunnel valley was free of ice and seawater, it was occupied by the river. |
|
Since the sea flooded it, the valley seems to have been kept open by tidal action. |
|
The northeast coast of England was largely unsettled by Roman civilians apart from the Tyne valley and Hadrian's Wall. |
|
Upper Wensleydale is high, open and remote U shaped valley overlying Yoredale Beds. |
|
This great estuary ran through a wooded valley and is now referred to as the Solent River. |
|
A major GLOF was reported in 1978 in the valley of the Shaksgam River in the Karakoram, a part of historic Kashmir, ceded by Pakistan to China. |
|
Venetz warned the inhabitants of the valley of the danger as water was also escaping from the base of the cone. |
|
Still farther East, however, the typical Continental connections of the Britannic coast were with the lower Seine valley instead. |
|
The old name for the valley was Yoredale after the river that runs through it. |
|
Around the 8th century, the river valley was settled by Angles who established themselves at Reeth, Stainton, Grinton Bridge and Fremington. |
|
Boulogne is at the mouth of the Liane river, which meanders through a valley between hills. |
|
Retreat moraines lower in the river valley can be seen around Gunnerside and Grinton Bridge. |
|
It consists of various mountains linked in chains, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine. |
|
Along the valley sides can be seen the typical Dales geology of Yoredale beds, alternating strata of Limestone and Gritstone. |
|
The river and its valley are home to many types of flora and fauna typical to the Yorkshire Dales. |
|
After losing the Battle of Fort Oswego, not only that fort, but others in the Mohawk River valley were abandoned. |
|
As the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded, the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal. |
|
A former river valley flooded by rising sea levels 6,000 years ago, Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. |
|
|
The clay extends west up the Frome valley to Dorchester, and would originally have extended east beyond Portsmouth in Hampshire. |
|
The erosion is both downward, deepening the valley, and headward, extending the valley into the hillside, creating head cuts and steep banks. |
|
When some base level is reached, the erosive activity switches to lateral erosion, which widens the valley floor and creates a narrow floodplain. |
|
The stream gradient becomes nearly flat, and lateral deposition of sediments becomes important as the stream meanders across the valley floor. |
|
Alum Bay Chine begins as a small wooded valley descending eastward from the junction of the B3322 and the road to Headon Hall. |
|
The river gives its name to the valley through which it flows, namely Swaledale. |
|
The greatest population density was to be found in the southern and eastern regions of the continent, the River Murray valley in particular. |
|
As a result of limestone quarrying, lead mining and coal mining, the Wear valley was amongst the first places to see the development of railways. |
|
This can be established as a result of boreholes, of which there have been many in the Wear valley due to coal mining. |
|
Between 572 and 574, Leovigild invaded the valley of the Douro, pushing the Suebi west and northwards. |
|
In the lower reaches of the river valley the water flows over bunter sandstone and pebble beds. |
|
The soil of the lower part of its valley is exceptionally fertile, and produces, amongst other crops, large supplies of sugar beet. |
|
From here the valley begins to open out, and traverses the rich plain east and south of Darlington in large meandering curves. |
|
A valley floor divide is a low drainage divide that runs across a valley, sometimes created by deposition or stream capture. |
|
After the Upper Rhine valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. |
|
The main paths approach the summit from Parlick in the south, Saddle Fell in the east and Bleasdale in the valley to the west. |
|
From 1737 to 1834, expansion into the northern Black Sea littoral and the eastern Danube valley was a cornerstone of Russian foreign policy. |
|
Caesar does not say what the cause of the conflict was, but the Sequani controlled access to the Rhine river along the valley of the Doubs. |
|
Ariovistus made the decision to clear out the Sequani from the strategic Doubs valley and to repopulate it with Germanic settlers. |
|
Settlement centres existed in the Aare valley between Thun and Bern, and between Lake Zurich and the river Reuss. |
|
|
The history of the River Vistula and her valley spans over 2 million years. |
|
After the last ice age, sand dunes were deposited in the Rhine valley at what was to become the western edge of the city. |
|
Here the narrow valley of the Wachau, with its densely forested escarpments, made access to the riverbank more difficult. |
|
He subjected them to Frankish authority and devastated the valley of the Elbe, forcing tribute from them. |
|
A Lombard army under Pippin then marched into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia. |
|
This narrow valley at the head of the River Eden is bounded by Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell to the west and Mallerstang Edge to the east. |
|
The Old Swiss Confederacy was an alliance among the valley communities of the central Alps. |
|
The base of the mountain is composed of ancient Silurian and Ordovician rocks which are exposed in the valley bottoms to the north of Ingleton. |
|
Both men presented a report advocating the Table valley as a fort and garden for the East India fleets. |
|
In the autumn 1244, Yisaur concentrated the Mongol forces in the upper Tigris valley where they subjugated the Kurdish province of Akhlat. |
|
Yisaur withdrew his force back up the Euphrates valley and received the submission of Malatia. |
|
Established in 1886 the Trent valley sailing club is one of two clubs that use the river for dingy sailing, regattas, and events. |
|
He crossed the Red Sea and the Eastern Desert to reach the Nile valley and then headed north to Cairo. |
|
A Gill or Ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. |
|
Haiti's most important valley in terms of crops is the Plaine de l'Artibonite, which is oriented south of the Montagnes Noires. |
|
He did not desire to cross this rugged mountain chain and to descend into the Po valley with exhausted troops only to have to fight a battle. |
|
It is said that he and his sisters built the first Inca homes in the valley with their own hands. |
|
This system prevails from Corsica eastward to the valley of the Tiber River, the last rift valley in that direction. |
|
Above the village of Lambley the trail leaves the valley to cross more moorland to the A69 near the village of Greenhead. |
|
Shortly after taking lead in Quito, Gonzalo learned from many of the natives of a valley far to the east rich in both cinnamon and gold. |
|
|
The trail continues down the valley of the South Tyne to Slaggyford and Knarsdale. |
|
By March both met at the valley of Zumaco and started their march towards crossing the Andes. |
|
Any assault on the Inca armies overlooking the valley would have been suicidal. |
|
The valley formation is dated to the Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene uplift unconformity. |
|
The Mantaro River flows through the fertile valley which produces potatoes, maize, and vegetables among other crops. |
|
The trail climbs out of the Calder valley through the scattered hamlet of Colden, crossing Colden Water by an ancient clapper bridge. |
|
The broad Mantaro valley is unusual in the Andes as it possesses a large amount of arable land. |
|
His body is lost, but now appears as a mountain range present surrounding the valley in the shape of a man's body. |
|
In the valley are several small towns, each famous for its own particular craft. |
|
It climbs out of the valley to leave the National Park at Standedge on the A62 road. |
|
A number of French Huguenots settled in Wales, in the upper Rhymney valley of the current Caerphilly County Borough. |
|
Hayfield is at the foot of Kinder Scout, the highest summit in the area, and Matlock Bath is in the valley of the River Derwent. |
|
From Crowden the Pennine Way climbs a side valley past Laddow Rocks to the summit of Black Hill on the border of Yorkshire. |
|
Dams are typically located at a narrow part of a valley downstream of a natural basin. |
|
The unexpected uprising swept up the Volga River valley and even threatened Moscow. |
|
The Yenisei River valley is habitat for numerous flora and fauna, with Siberian pine and Siberian larch being notable tree species. |
|
Downstream of Preobrazhenskoye village the Lower Tunguska flows in a narrow and deep valley with high, often rocky shores. |
|
Geologically, the lowlands formed as a rift valley about 100 million years ago and are prone to infrequent but significant earthquakes. |
|
A dam constructed in a valley relies on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the reservoir. |
|
Situated in the northeast is Haslingden Grane, a glaciated valley with three reservoirs, Calf Hey, Ogden and Holden Wood. |
|
|
During the 17th century, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River. |
|
The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. |
|
The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes. |
|
The North Western Fells occupy an oval area beneath the Buttermere and Borrowdale valley systems. |
|
In many of the mines of the great vein region of the Hocking valley the capacity is equal to 1,200 to 1,500 tons per day. |
|
Burdett, which was rejected by the Bradford committee as too expensive, mainly because of the valley crossing at Burnley. |
|
For instance the Dubbs Quarry incline allowed slate to be pulled up and then down into the valley to The Hause. |
|
By 1870 Honister's underground workings stretched under Honister Crag with intermediate workings on the opposite side of the valley at Yew Crags. |
|
The valley is also accessible to highways and rail, cost competitive, and an educated workforce. |
|
The loess cover, however, is not always uniform, particularly in the upper parts of valley slopes where underlying karstified limestone can be exposed at the surface. |
|
We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago. |
|
But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. |
|
Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. |
|
A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery. |
|
Nationalist sentiment grew following the flooding of the Tryweryn valley in 1965 to create a reservoir to supply water to the English city of Liverpool. |
|
The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial. |
|
In 1766 the Duke gained a fourth act of parliament for a branch canal between Sale Moor and Stockport which was to follow the valley of the Mersey. |
|
Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it. |
|
The street curves down from Grey's Monument towards the valley of the River Tyne and was voted England's finest street in 2005 in a survey of BBC Radio 4 listeners. |
|
It was formed 13,000 years ago during the last major ice age by two glaciers, one from the Troutbeck valley and the other from the Fairfield Horseshoe. |
|