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Lake Manicouagan lies in an astrobleme in central Quebec covering an area of approximately 1206 square miles.
About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide.
Under the right conditions the car can reach speeds over 200 miles an hour.
It is strongly recommended that you change the oil in your car every 5,000 miles.
If the only air tanker available is 300 miles away, it can still be over your fire in a fairly short period of time.
Two days later, Madigan's anemograph recorded winds of 100 miles per hour for the first time.
In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.
The forecast calls for winds gusting up to 40 miles per hour.
The refugees gathered in a hilly redoubt several miles outside the city.
The supermarket delivers groceries for free within 30 miles of the store.
Submerged, the ship could manage 50 nautical miles at 5 knots using battery electric propulsion.
By 2012, almost 32,000 miles of North American pipeline were being planned or under construction.
Heavy rains caused the river to overtop existing dams, and carried dilbit 30 miles downstream before the spill was contained.
The epicentre was in the Sandwich area of east Kent at a depth of some ten miles from the surface.
The Number One tower soon found an alternative use as a replacement for the Nab Rock lightship, 40 miles away off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
As completed, the Type AF had a speed of six knots, and a range of 60 nautical miles unless auxiliary fuel tanks were fitted.
The distance of 82 miles from London to Folkestone was covered in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Beckwith organised a spectacle by showing Webb swimming miles in the River Thames.
The presenters won the challenge because The Stig was stopped by the traffic police just 3 miles from the finish.
After The Who's concert at Hyde Park, Clarkson, Hammond and May took some of their equipment 90 miles to the site of their next show.
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Although each presenter chose a different route, Clarkson estimated the distance as approximately 750 miles.
May's Jaguar broke down so many times that he eventually gave up the challenge, managing just 8 miles per gallon.
The 308 appeared to run out of fuel 10 miles from Slough, although Hammond later explained that the entire electrical system had failed suddenly.
The three presenters travelled 1,000 miles through the rainforests of Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile.
The perimeter, according to Nansen based on the 23,800 stadia, was 2,375 miles.
He suggested that despite his rescue attempt, Pliny never came within miles of Vesuvius and there is no evidence he died from breathing in fumes.
One of the largest had galleries running up to two miles into the mountain, while men worked day and night draining the mine in shifts.
The grays did not run so far, but usually kept near home, going in a circuit of six or eight miles.
Water deer are proficient swimmers, and can swim several miles to reach remote river islands.
Hence most sailing ships preferred the Drake Passage, which is open water for hundreds of miles, despite very rough conditions.
Sea ice surrounding Iceland extended for miles in every direction, closing harbors to shipping.
The two parallel road bridges are four miles apart, with the Bourne Bridge to the west, and the Sagamore to the east.
The coast between Cabo Falso Bojador and Cabo Bojador, 10 miles SW, consists of a sandy beach fringed by rocks.
The sea next to the Cape, and for approximately 3 miles seaward from the coast, is no more than two metres deep.
In 2010, 665 miles of coastline were affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Penwith also contains an artificial lake, Drift Reservoir, which is located appromimately 3 miles west of Penzance.
It was at this tower about 1898 that Guglielmo Marconi heard wireless signals transmitted from Porthcurno, a distance of 30 miles.
Puerto Toro, a few miles south of Puerto Williams, is the closest town to the cape.
The effects of this can be seen up to a distance of 4 miles from the granite in an area called the metamorphic aureole.
The 10 IFCA Districts cover English coastal waters out to 6 nautical miles from Territorial Baselines.
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At this time owners began retiring its original hybrid fleet after 300,000 and 350,000 miles per vehicle.
In 1768 a friendly society of Tradesmen was formed at Penzance with 101 members living within three miles of the town.
The nearest official Met office weather station for which online records are available is Everton, about 2 miles to the west of the town centre.
The Island Harbour Marina, at the site of an old tidal mill, is also on the river, about two miles from Newport.
From the pier head there are panoramic views across the Solent to Portsmouth four miles away.
The total official length of this section is 17 miles, although the diversion via Rew Street currently adds around an extra mile.
A connection to Ryde was made by the Ryde and Newport Railway, which met the IoWR at Smallbrook, two miles south of Ryde.
Brading Harbour was located at Bembridge, a few miles from the village of Brading, and the harbour was doing good business.
The majority of crops are shipped hundreds of miles to various processing plants before ending up in the grocery store.
A matched pair from the same animal is a very desirable find but often antlers are shed separately and may be separated by several miles.
It stretches for approximately 20 miles from the Baltic near Kappeln and Arnis to the city of Schleswig.
The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes?
Over the next few days, Ariovistus moved his camp to within two miles of Caesar's, covering the move with cavalry skirmishes.
Finally, from a distance of two miles, Ariovistus cut Caesar's supply line, isolating his garrison.
Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.
After the explosion, a plume of smoke could be seen in the sky for miles around.
They believed they were near other Spaniards in Mexico, but there was in fact 1500 miles of coast between them.
His measure of 240,000 stadia translates to 24,000 miles, close to the actual circumference of 24,901 miles.
In November, they sailed into the treacherous waters that separate Korea and Japan by 110 miles.
Nothing but air and water was seen for 40 days and by their reckoning they ran 2,000 miles and fortune deserted them.
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A magnetic compass points to magnetic north pole, which is approximately 1,000 miles from the true geographic North Pole.
Located several miles north of Constantinople, it commanded the narrowest part of the Bosporus.
On land, the league is most commonly defined as three miles, though the length of a mile could vary from place to place and depending on the era.
On these maps, Antillia was typically depicted on a similar scale to that of Portugal, lying around 200 miles west of the Azores.
He also sighted the Amazon River and ascended to a point about fifty miles from the sea.
If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.
In addition, the map apparently predicts the width of South America at certain latitudes to within 70 miles.
He sailed from Kalinga 690 nautical miles on 100 large ships with a 24,000 strong army.
He arrived at the mouth of the River May on June 22, 1564, sailed up it a few miles, and founded Fort Caroline.
The bell tower is modern and contains brass bells that can be heard for miles.
The city of Banten was located in middle of the bay which is around three miles across.
In the area of overlap, the two companies were not permitted to establish colonies within one hundred miles of each other.
The river is not cartographically called the Hudson River until miles downstream.
When it was finally built, it bypassed Olema, terminating, instead, two miles away.
The granite rocks that form the peninsula were once continuous with the Tehachapi Mountains 350 miles south.
However, it is the only living marine mammal with powerful, large limbs and feet that allow them to cover miles on foot and run on land.
By 1639 they reached the Pacific 65 miles southeast at the mouth of the Ulya River.
By Act of Parliament no school is to be kept within two miles of a publick school.
However, such features are entitled to a territorial sea extending 12 nautical miles.
Me, I never refuse a meal, and believe me I seen some heavy weather. I musta flown a quadrillion miles and I never did have a problem.
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The deeded tracts were called patroonships and could span 16 miles in length on one side of a major river, or 8 miles if spanning both sides.
In the afternoon, a violent explosion in the city was heard for several miles.
This led to the notorious Beeching Axe, destroying many miles of permanent way and severing towns from the railway network.
The Silverstone Circuit, current home of the British Grand Prix, is a few miles south of Northampton.
The data below is from a weather station in Preston Wynne, a village about 10 miles South East of Leominster.
Kay did so before returning to live a few miles away in his native Warrington.
The crucial step toward interchangeability in metal parts was taken by Simeon North, working only a few miles from Eli Terry.
The miner was expected to return to the shaft to perform relighting, a round trip of up to a few miles.
A few miles from Ellesmere Port, at Weston, near Runcorn, the ship canal also connects with the Weaver Navigation.
Locke avoided tunnels almost completely on the Grand Junction but exceeded the slope limit for six miles south of Crewe.
The area included in this territory was just under 1 million square miles, more than 80 times the size of Belgium.
By war's end in 1815, there were 140 cotton manufacturers within 30 miles of Providence, employing 26,000 hands and operating 130,000 spindles.
The tornado tore through 48 miles of Worcester County including a large area of the city of Worcester.
In 1890 Westinghouse and Stanley built a system to transmit power several miles to a mine in Colorado.
Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
Both places belonged to the Sakya territory, and are located only 15 miles apart.
A Roman fort existed about 2 miles south of the present day town centre, at a site known as Watercrook.
On the first two miles of its course, it is joined by four streams, two of them as short as itself, but two ones much longer.
The Roman fort of Voreda occupied the site now known as Old Penrith, five miles north of the town.
Before this the villagers had been expected to travel 7 miles to Kendal each Sunday for services.
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It then carries on for around three miles, passing the Falcon pub near Bletsoe then passes Sharnbrook at a Roundabout.
Caudale slate mine is a few miles further down, on the Ullswater side, and was last worked at the beginning of the 20th century.
The mouth of the valley is located at Skelwith Bridge, which lies about two miles west of the town of Ambleside.
It is located several miles east of Ulverston and is near the southern end of Windermere.
This isolated building, 3 miles from roads or other habitation, was once a shepherd's bothy.
The streams falling east and west from Honister turn gradually northward and flow along roughly parallel courses for around 12 miles.
Between the two lies Ennerdale so that in effect the group is the shape of a single horseshoe, each branch about 10 miles in length.
Pillar stands on the southern wall of Ennerdale, three miles from the head of the valley.
This cone in turn stands upon a much broader upland plateau which stretches away five miles to the south west.
These combine some miles downstream to form the River Derwent, flowing through Borrowdale to Derwentwater and Keswick.
Two miles in length, this ridge falls over a series of craggy steps to the confluence of the two streams at Lingcove Bridge.
This walk is a little over four miles and involves about a thousand feet of climb.
William and Susan transfer to schools at Winthwaite five miles away, a boy's grammar school and a county secondary school.
Sea level closer to the equator is several miles farther from the centre of the Earth.
It is visible from miles around and its 148 steps can be climbed when the tower is open.
The Iditarod Trail, at over 1,000 miles, spans Alaska and connects the coastal cities of Seward and Nome.
Completely encircling the Nottingham conurbation, it stretches for several miles into the surrounding districts, and extends into Derbyshire.
This was such a major event in the area that extra trains were provided to bring visitors to the town from miles around.
Important mountain peaks visible from Ingleborough are listed here, clockwise from north, with their distance in miles and bearing in degrees.
There was another pollution incident in March 2008 when twenty miles of the river turned orange.
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Carlisle is approximately 25 miles north of the northern edge of the Lake District, which is home to some of Britain's best restaurants.
At its peak just before World War I, it ran a route mileage of more than 1,500 miles, and employed 111,000 people.
It is located in Ribblesdale, at the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, within a few miles of the Three Peaks.
Extensive sand dunes stretch for several miles between Birkdale and Woodvale to the south of the town.
It is to the immediate south, and across the River Wharfe, from Grassington, near Threshfield and eight miles north of the market town Skipton.
About 300 miles west of Land's End, upon realising that the Speedwell was unseaworthy, it returned to Plymouth.
Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles, and adapt to the characteristics of the surface below them.
And yet the inhabitants were still expected to travel many miles to church each Sunday, over hills and rough terrain.
The size of the parish meant that, for centuries, families were obliged to walk for miles to attend the church every Sunday.
But whatever your choice, it's the smoky taste enhanced by a unique sauce that bar-b-que buffs will travel miles for.
Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
This moon's orbit is nearly identical to that of Belinda, about 47,000 miles from Uranus.
Only the sagebrush, the road, and the dusty blueberried spruce for miles and the sun pricking the sand.
But we lacked the collector's instinct that impels a true birder to travel hundreds of miles just to add a bluefaced booby to his life list.
They jumped into his cruiser and blue-lighted it to Boston Medical Center at eighty miles per hour.
Here you have a country of 3 million square miles, nearly all of it empty and eminently bombable.
I remember once when l was repairin' a fault on the Coolgardie line sixty miles out a thunderstorm came on. It was a boshter!
Camp Hamilton is the Methodist campground, a few miles from Salem, where the Methodists were holding services.
On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.
The vessel was launched only a few miles south of Seaham Hall, where in 1815 Byron married Annabella Milbanke.
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Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
Did you seriously think that was gonna work? You magnificent chowderhead! I saw that coming miles away!
So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account.
The circuity factor is the average ratio of road miles to air miles between two points on a landscape.
After every test the wheel was cleaned by making two stops with cleaning shoes from a speed of 40 miles per hour.
It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.
Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north.
Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.
The twister cut a wide swath of destruction in Utica, a town of 2,000 people about 90 miles southwest of Chicago.
Driving 300 miles on one tank of gas was cutting it close, but we arrived safely.
But deep water was not secured until 1926, when Corpus Christi dug itself out 21 miles to the sea.
The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan.
The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
The jet dragster has been clocked at 232.24 miles per hour.... The car is stopped by a drag parachute.
In 1450 the English Pale stretched eighteen miles from near Wissant in Picardy to Gravelines in Flanders.
On 7 April, Britain declared a maritime exclusion zone of 200 nautical miles around the Islands.
This valley is eighty-seven miles long. It did not have the fertileness of Brown's Park.
Pass a trail registration station, crossing a swamp on a footlog at 0.2 miles.... Cross a small branch at 0.9 miles on a footlog.
Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.
Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.
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We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.
The initial task would be the haulage of stores from Cape Evans to Hut Point, a distance of 13 miles.
The geographical centre of Scotland lies a few miles from the village of Newtonmore in Badenoch.
The effect of this can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre, in the city centre.
Long ditches, some many miles in length, were dug with enclosures placed at their ends.
Its members were stripped of their ceremonial armour and forbidden to come within 100 miles of the city on pain of death.
Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, two hundred miles away, where he found a ship and with difficulty persuaded the captain to take him.
William then moved to Hastings, a few miles to the east, where he built a castle as a base of operations.
Children being born in this country, just a few miles apart, couldn't witness a more wildly differing start to life.
Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
He fell back to a previously reconnoitred position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village of Waterloo.
Wiping out half of Prussian territories from the map, Napoleon created a new kingdom of 1,100 square miles called Westphalia.
On his first run, his locomotive pulled 38 freight and passenger cars at speeds as high as 12 miles per hour.
By 1850, rates had fallen to a penny a ton mile for coal, at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour.
Young English people with eating disorders are sent hundreds of miles away to Scotland because the services they need are not available locally.
Appledore Shipbuilders are based at Appledore, Torridge, Devon, three miles north of Bideford.
She completed the swim, nominally 11 miles but equivalent to 22 miles because of tidal flows, in 7 hours 20 minutes.
The wave travels upstream against the river current at a speed of 8 to 13 miles per hour.
By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.
Scafell Pike is one of three British peaks climbed as part of the National Three Peaks Challenge, and is the highest ground for over 90 miles.
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Although Barnsley Metropolitan Borough also borders Sheffield to the north, the town itself is a few miles further away.
Properly maintained, the standard production XK Engine would achieve 200,000 miles of useful life.
The company has two of its major facilities located some miles on either side of the city.
He abandoned his invasion at Swarkestone Bridge on the River Trent just a few miles south of Derby.
Early Iron age settlement existed in the Rugby area, and a few miles outside what is now Rugby, existed a Roman settlement known as Tripontium.
This was necessary as at points the two tracks are several miles apart and some destinations can only be accessed from one of the lines.
If you live within 20 miles of the airport, you will likely see and hear aircraft.
The airport lies a few miles away from the M1 motorway, which runs southwards to London, northwards to Leeds and connects to the M25 motorway.
It links overseas Chinese and their descendants to their heritage, even though they live thousands of miles away from their ancestral homelands.
Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained.
The largest Roman artefact anywhere, it runs a total of 74 miles in northern England.
The central tower is the tallest in England and is visible for many miles as it rises in spectacular fashion from a high hill.
More than 1,000 iron columns supported 2,224 trellis girders and 30 miles of guttering, comprising 4,000 tonnes of iron in all.
There were some 100,000 objects, displayed along more than ten miles, by over 15,000 contributors.
From east to west the forest extended about five miles, from Askern on the east to Badsworth in the west.
The location is approximately three miles from the site of Robin's robberies at the now famous Saylis.
Mercia, to which Nottingham belonged, came to within three miles of Sheffield City Centre.
The explosion would have been seen from miles away, and heard from further away still.
The Cheese Rollers pub in the nearby village of Shurdington, about 3 miles from Cooper's Hill, takes its name from the event.
Around 25 miles from Las Khorey is found Gelweita, another key rock art site.
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Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol.
From 1831 until his death, he farmed at Ash, Normandy, a village in Surrey a few miles from his birthplace at Farnham.
A group of 13 men then set out with Dickens to visit Looking Glass Prairie, a trip 30 miles into Illinois.
However, he did not attend the local Church of England school, instead being sent to Mr Last's school, three miles away.
Wallington was a tiny village 35 miles north of London, and the cottage had almost no modern facilities.
In September 1883 he went as a boarder to Field House preparatory school in Rottingdean on the south coast of England, forty miles from Wotton.
Just after the tour the band performed at the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway, about 50 miles east of San Francisco.
Some are very short, only ten miles, while others can be up to one hundred miles.
There are a few races that are even longer than one hundred miles and last multiple days.
The sports cars again ran over 300 miles, contesting the Shell BRDC Empire Trophy.
After 188 miles of racing the Italian had to stop in Ravenna to replace the Ferrari's tyres, and fell behind again.
Additional car testing was carried out at Snetterton, a few miles from Hethel.
In 1970, Chichester attempted to sail 4,000 miles in twenty days, in Gipsy Moth V, but failed by one day.
He sailed the last fifty miles with a tiny sailplan to keep the boat upright.
The Fourth Crusade never came within 1,000 miles of its objective of Jerusalem.
They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the US Virgin Islands.
The River Shannon, which traverses the central lowlands, is the longest river in Ireland at 386 kilometres or 240 miles in length.
He placed Falstaff in the tradition of the miles gloriosus, the type of rascally braggart soldier borrowed from Roman comedy.
At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road.
But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.
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The capital of the Damnonii is believed to have been at Carman, near Dumbarton, but around 5 miles inland from the River Clyde.
The Ganges Canal reached 350 miles from Hardwar to Cawnpore, and supplied thousands of miles of distribution canals.
A division advanced to Donbaik, only a few miles from the end of the peninsula but was halted by a small but well entrenched Japanese force.
The pinnaces could not tie up alongside Campania at night, and had to be moored several miles away.
The Rob Roy Way, named after Scottish folk hero and outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor, is a long distance footpath that runs for 92 miles.
The cliff face goes up to 350 feet and the cliffs stretch for 8 miles of coastline.
The rail tunnel stretches 31 miles, and at its lowest point the tunnel is 250 feet undersea.
It is said that at one time it was also possible to walk all the way to Baleshare, and on to North Uist, five miles away at low tide.
According to tradition, he was a follower of Saint Patrick and founded a monastery at Maghera, a few miles north of the mountain.
They would then have the choice of walking the seven miles to Bluff Cove or wait until dark to sail there.
New York is also home to one of the largest subway systems in the world, consisting of hundreds of miles of tunnel with electrified track.
Trevithick's home was just a few miles from Falmouth so Uville was able to meet him and tell him about the project.
The Government since 1956 has laced the U.S. with 33,000 miles of multilane highways.
Another multiparter involved Lassie being trapped on a truck and having to find her way hundreds of miles to the Martin farm.
The trail then leads to a multisigned trail intersection at 1.9 miles, where you go right onto the dirt Manzanita Point Road.
As the city lay only a few miles from the Russian border, there was a risk of getting stranded in a battle zone.
Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester.
Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
It was a flat race, and it was contested over 3 miles on Cleeve Hill, which overlooks the present venue.
An example of a possible early games venue is at Fetteresso, although that location is technically a few miles south of the Scotland Highlands.
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A stricken ship within 3 miles of the shore had to fly at the main mast a yellow and black flag borne quarterly from sunrise to sunset.
Relay stations were located along the roads every seven to twelve Roman miles, and tended to grow into a village or trading post.
It rises on Ben More Assynt, a few miles from Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland, and drains into the North Sea via the Kyle of Sutherland.
The river rises at a height of 1500 feet on the southern side of Ben More Assynt, and flows just over 35 miles.
A few miles to the south of Inverness, Sir William was ambushed by a force led by Andrew Moray and Alexander Pilche.
Within a few miles of Dumfries are the villages of Tinwald, Torthorwald and Mouswald all of which were settled by vikings.
From the carnage of Bannockburn, the rest of the army tried to escape to the safety of the English border, ninety miles to the south.
Mindful of this, de Burgh eventually withdrew back forty miles to Antrim, while Butler had to return to Ormond due to lack of supplies.
Next, Surrey moved to block off the Scots' route north and so James was forced to move his army and artillery two miles to Branxton Hill.
When the armies were within three miles of each other Surrey sent the Rouge Croix pursuivant to James, who answered that he would wait till noon.
While the Americans wintered only twenty miles away, Howe made no effort to attack their camp, which critics argue could have ended the war.
The ADR itself stretched some hundreds of miles to the north, west and south of the country and almost to the continental coastline in the east.
Berwick as a borough council is going to be abolished and it would then be run from Morpeth, more than 30 miles away.
The village is only a few miles from a location that is claimed to be the exact geographical centre of Scotland.
The lowest ten miles of the Tay, including prestigious beats like Taymount or Islamouth, provides most of the cream of the Tay.
Niphon, the chief island, is nine hundred miles long, and one hundred miles in average width.
Clarkston and Busby are also about 3 miles away to the west, with Thorntonhall much closer.
The closest town to the south of East Kilbride is Strathaven, about 7 miles away.
Hamilton, the administrative headquarters of South Lanarkshire is about 5 miles from East Kilbride to the east.
There is also a footpath along the Glencryan Burn with miles of pathways up towards Pallacerigg and Fannyside Lochs.
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All Royal Navy SSBNs have been based at Faslane, only a few miles from Holy Loch.
At Carlisle the Glasgow South Western Line runs for several miles before heading west towards Dumfries, Kilmarnock, Ayr and Stranraer.
The Allied armies fell back 40 miles in confusion, and facing defeat London realised it needed more troops to fight a mobile war.
Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast.
It is located about five miles west of Chepstow and eleven miles east of Newport.
It runs generally parallel to Offa's Dyke, sometimes within a few yards but never more than three miles away.
Road access to Aberdyfi is by the A493, with Tywyn four miles to the north and Machynlleth 11 miles to the east.
Rowland Pugh was the Lord of Meirionedd, and lived at Mathafarn about two miles east of Machynlleth.
Until early 1918, the division manned various sections of the front line, at times occupying as much as ten miles of the front.
In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time.
Golden Gate Park has miles of paved and unpaved running trails as well as a golf course and disc golf course.
The nearest airport with international flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport, 83 miles away by road.
Efficiency or fuel economy can be given as miles per gallon gasoline equivalent.
The iconic tower can be seen for many miles around as the tallest building in the town and is a local landmark.
The nearest Met Office weather station is Gogerddan, 3 miles to the northeast, and at a similar elevation.
Near Blaenau Ffestiniog there are miles of mountain landscape with derelict quarries, rivers, various lakes and walking routes.
Salmon can make amazing journeys, sometimes moving hundreds of miles upstream against strong currents and rapids to reproduce.
And a plane from Wotje saw a submarine 500 miles north by northeast of that island.
Llantrisant is served by Pontyclun railway station three miles away, which was formerly known as Llantrisant railway station.
The nearest official weather observation station is at RAF Valley, about 5 miles South East of the town centre.
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A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme.
Signalling Solutions is to resignal the 12 miles from Paddington to West Drayton, including the Airport branch, as part of the Crossrail project.
The line covered six and three quarter miles with stations at Rhewl and Llanrhaiadr.
Here the cliffs rise and run for eleven miles as far as the estuary of the Ogmore.
Beyond the Tawe the bay sweeps for six miles before reaching Mumbles Head, its most westerly point.
In 1913, Gill moved to Hopkin's Crank at Ditchling Common, two miles north of the village.
As these two locations are within a couple of miles of each other it is likely that the legends are related, or inspired by each other.
The nearest Met Office weather station is Keele University, about four miles west of the city centre.
Wrexham has a fierce rivalry with Chester, the clubs are just 10 miles apart, but are English and Welsh respectively.
Llanishen is well known as the home of the 'Tax Offices', the tallest buildings in north Cardiff and a landmark for miles around.
Excluding Alaska and Hawaii the terrain spans 3,000 miles West to East and more than a thousand North to South.
Jenkins learned to tap dance, spending eight hours a week learning the choreography and running three miles a day to get fit.
He may have been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of Wakefield.
Participants run a distance of 3 miles to as long as 10 miles, while crawling through mud bogs, and battling other obstacles.
In addition, juveniles are able to survive temperature and salinity changes and adults are capable of migrating hundreds of miles.
This symbol mirrors the real life of the green Hawaiian turtle as it will swim hundreds of miles to lay its eggs at its own place of birth.
Most strikingly, many species breed tens, hundreds or even thousands of miles inland.
This porpoise often ventures up rivers, and has been seen hundreds of miles from the sea.
And with 112,000 miles on the clock this isn't scary mileage for this type of car.
It is eleven miles long from north to south, but never more than a mile wide from east to west, with spits at either end.

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