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The 'Celtic' areas of the United Kingdom (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Cornwall) show the most genetic differences among each other. [42] The data shows that Scottish and Cornish populations share greater genetic similarity with the English than they do with other 'Celtic' populations, with the Cornish in particular being genetically ...
1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman) Fenman: BR [47] London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton; after 1969 to King's Lynn: 1949 – 1968 Fife Coast Express [47] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924) [48] NBR / LNER / BR: St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street: 1948 – 1959 Flying Dutchman: GWR (original)+BER: London Paddington ...
A talisman is any object ascribed with religious or magical powers intended to protect, heal, or harm individuals for whom they are made. Talismans are often portable objects carried on someone in a variety of ways, but can also be installed permanently in architecture.
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
Hartbeespoort, informally known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of the hartbees" (a species of antelope) in Afrikaans.
The rough line that can be drawn between the two regions, illustrated by the map, is known as the Landsker Line, and the area south of the line has been termed "Little England Beyond Wales". The first objective, statistically based description of this demarcation was made in the 1960s, [ 89 ] : 7–29 but the distinction was remarked upon as ...
Angle (Welsh: Angl) is a village, parish and community on the southern side of the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The village school has closed, as has the village shop (with a post office). [2] There is a bus link to Pembroke railway station. Pele tower at Castle Farm, Angle
Butlin's Pwllheli was a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales.The site is now used by Haven Holidays for a caravan park and has been renamed Hafan y Môr.When originally opened in 1947, it was named Butlins Pwllheli, but in 1990 was renamed Starcoast World.