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68 relations: Agriculture, Angel of the North, Øresund Bridge, Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency), Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Barrow Offshore Wind Farm, Barrow-in-Furness, Bird observatory, Blackpool Airport, Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Centrica, Chapel Island, China, Cleveleys, Cockle (bivalve), Electoral district, Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, Europe, Foulney Island, Furness Railway, Glasgow, Grange-over-Sands, Heysham, Heysham Port, High brown fritillary, Islands of Furness, John Whitaker (historian), Keith Wilkinson (reporter), Lake District, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, List of longest bridges, London, Morecambe, Mudflat, Ormonde Wind Farm, Peninsula, Piel Island, Poulton-le-Sands, Ptolemy, Queen's Guide to the Sands, Quicksand, Rampside Gas Terminal, Ramsar Convention, River Keer, River Kent, River Leven, Cumbria, River Lune, River Wyre, Roa Island, Roosecote Power Station, ..., Salt marsh, Sand, Seven Natural Wonders, Sheep Island (England), Sherwood Sandstone Group, Tidal power, Tide, Ulverston, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 2005, Walney Island, Walney Wind Farm, West Coast Main Line, West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm, Wind turbine, 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, 2006 Morecambe Bay Eurocopter AS365 crash, 2011 United Kingdom budget. Expand index (18 more) »
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Angel of the North
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
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Øresund Bridge
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge (Øresundsbroen,; Öresundsbron,; hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark.
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Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
Barrow and Furness (previously Barrow-in-Furness) is a constituency in Cumbria represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Woodcock of the Labour & Co-operative Party.
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Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow Island is an area and electoral ward of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Barrow Offshore Wind Farm
The Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is a 30 turbine 90MW capacity offshore wind farm in the East Irish Sea approximately south west of Walney Island, near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness, commonly known as Barrow, is a town and borough in Cumbria, England.
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Bird observatory
A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations.
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Blackpool Airport
Blackpool Airport is an airport on the Fylde coast of Lancashire, England, in the Borough of Fylde, just outside the Borough of Blackpool.
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Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm
The Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm is a 348 MW offshore wind farm located on the Burbo Flats in Liverpool Bay on the west coast of the UK in the Irish Sea.
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Centrica
Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire.
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Chapel Island
Chapel Island is a limestone outcrop that lies in the Leven estuary of Morecambe Bay in England, less than one mile (1.6 km) from the shoreline at Bardsea in the area known as Ulverston Sands.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Cleveleys
Cleveleys is a town on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, England, about north of Blackpool and south of Fleetwood.
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Cockle (bivalve)
A cockle is a small, edible, marine bivalve mollusc.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.
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Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin
The Airbus Helicopters AS365 Dauphin (Dolphin), also formerly known as the Aérospatiale SA 365 Dauphin 2, is a medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter currently produced by Airbus Helicopters.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Foulney Island
Foulney Island is a low-lying grass and shingle area 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east of Roa Island, off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, England.
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Furness Railway
The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish on Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, midway between Barrow-in-Furness and Kendal.
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Heysham
Heysham is a large coastal village near Lancaster, Lancashire, England, overlooking Morecambe Bay.
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Heysham Port
Heysham Port is the port of Heysham, Lancashire, England.
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High brown fritillary
Argynnis adippe, the high brown fritillary, is a large and brightly colored butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, native to Europe and across the Palearctic to Japan.
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Islands of Furness
The Islands of Furness are situated to the south-west and east of the Furness Peninsula.
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John Whitaker (historian)
John Whitaker B.D., F.S.A. (1735 in Manchester – 1808 in Ruan Lanihorne), was an English historian and Anglican clergyman.
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Keith Wilkinson (reporter)
Keith Wilkinson is a British television reporter and news correspondent.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
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List of longest bridges
This is a list of the world's longest bridges more than three kilometres long sorted by their full length above land or water.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Morecambe
Morecambe is a town on Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, England, which had a population of 34,768 at the 2011 Census.
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Mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats, are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers.
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Ormonde Wind Farm
The Ormonde Wind Farm is a wind farm west of Barrow-in-Furness in the Irish Sea.
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Peninsula
A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.
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Piel Island
Piel Island lies half a mile (1 km) off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, though historically within Lancashire north of the sands.
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Poulton-le-Sands
Poulton-le-Sands is one of three small villages that combined to create Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the other two being Torrisholme and Bare.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.
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Queen's Guide to the Sands
The Queen's Guide to the Sands is the royally appointed guide to crossing the sands of Morecambe Bay, an ancient and potentially dangerous tidal crossing in northwest England.
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Quicksand
Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay), and water.
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Rampside Gas Terminal
Rampside Gas Terminal is a gas terminal situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria on the Irish Sea coast.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
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River Keer
The River Keer is a river in Lancashire, England.
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River Kent
The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England.
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River Leven, Cumbria
The River Leven (pron.) is a short river in the county of Cumbria, falling within the historic boundaries of Lancashire.
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River Lune
The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.
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River Wyre
The River Wyre is a river in Lancashire, United Kingdom, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
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Roa Island
Roa Island lies just over half a mile (1 km) south of the village of Rampside at the southernmost point of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, though formerly in the County of Lancashire north of the sands.
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Roosecote Power Station
Roosecote Power Station was a gas-fired, originally coal-fired power station, situated in the Roosecote district of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, North West England.
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Salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
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Sand
Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.
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Seven Natural Wonders
Seven Natural Wonders was a television series that was broadcast on BBC Two from 3 May to 20 June 2005.
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Sheep Island (England)
Sheep Island is an uninhabited grassy island of around, located just over from the shore of Walney Island, opposite Snab Point.
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Sherwood Sandstone Group
The Sherwood Sandstone Group is a Triassic lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which is widespread in Britain, especially in the English Midlands.
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Tidal power
Tidal power or tidal energy is a form of hydropower that converts the energy obtained from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
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Ulverston
Ulverston is a market town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in North West England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United Kingdom general election, 2005
The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.
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Walney Island
The Isle of Walney, also known as Walney Island, is an island off the west coast of England, at the western end of Morecambe Bay.
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Walney Wind Farm
Walney Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm 14 km west of Walney Island off the coast of Cumbria, in the Irish Sea, England.
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West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.
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West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm
West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm (WoDS), occasionally also known as West Duddon Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm located south west of Walney Island off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness RenewBL, 27 June 2011.
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.
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2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster (Shi bèi cǎn'àn, "cockle-picking tragedy") occurred on the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England, when at least 21 Chinese illegal immigrant labourers were drowned by an incoming tide after picking cockles off the Lancashire/Cumbrian coast.
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2006 Morecambe Bay Eurocopter AS365 crash
The 2006 Morecambe Bay Helicopter Crash was a fatal air incident that occurred on 27 December 2006 at approximately 18:40 GMT, whilst remote platform (Normally Unmanned Installations) crew were being transported from the Millom West via North Morecambe gas platforms to return them to the AP1, part of the Morecambe Field's Central Complex, situated approximately from the shoreline of Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, England.
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2011 United Kingdom budget
The 2011 United Kingdom budget, officially called 2011 Budget - A strong and stable economy, growth and fairness, was delivered by George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House of Commons on 23 March 2011.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_Bay
