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List Of Loughs Of England
Lough is the name given to many lakes in the far north of England in the counties of Northumberland and Cumbria they are often located near the Whin Sill escarpment on which Hadrian's Wall runs. In northern England the word lough in this context is usually pronounced as 'loff'. This reflects the loss in modern standard English of the guttural 'ch' sound (as in Scottish 'loch') which in middle English was represented by 'gh' (as it still is in modern Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots). On Haughton Common, near Hadrian's Wall * Broomlee Lough * Crag Lough * Greenlee Lough * Grindon Lough * Halleypike Lough Elsewhere in Northumberland * Black Lough, Northumberland * Blackaburn Lough * Blaxter Lough * Coldmartin Lough *Darden Lough * Harbottle Lough * Kimmer Lough * Little Lough *Sweethope Loughs *Whitfield Lough *The Lough, on Lindisfarne In the Lake District and Cumbria *Loughrigg Tarn, and the hill Loughrigg Fell, possibly named after it. Elsewhere in Cumbria *Monkhill Loug ...
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Northumberland
Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land on three sides; by the Scottish Borders region to the north, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south, and Cumbria to the west. The fourth side is the North Sea, with a stretch of coastline to the east. A predominantly rural county with a landscape of moorland and farmland, a large area is part of Northumberland National Park. The area has been the site of a number of historic battles with Scotland. Name The name of Northumberland is recorded as ''norð hẏmbra land'' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, meaning "the land north of the Humber". The name of the kingdom of ''Northumbria'' derives from the Old English meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the people south of the Humber Estuary. History ...
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Darden Lough
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Thurstonfield Lough
Thurstonfield Lough is an open water lough near Carlisle, Cumbria, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle .... References {{authority control Lakes of Cumbria Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria Burgh by Sands ...
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