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45 relations: Alps, Ancient Rome, Anticline, Archaeology, Augustus Pitt Rivers, Berkshire Downs, Buckinghamshire, Chalk, Chalk Group, Chalk stream, Chiltern Hills, Cranborne Chase, Cretaceous, Dome, Dorset, Dorset Downs, Downland, England, English Channel, Escarpment, Hampshire, Hillfort, Iron Age, Isle of Wight, Jurassic Coast, Kent, Lulworth Cove, North Downs, North Wessex Downs, Old Harry Rocks, Plateau, Purbeck Hills, Salisbury Plain, Seven Sisters, Sussex, South Downs, Stonehenge, Surrey, Sussex, The Needles, Uffington White Horse, Weald, White Cliffs of Dover, White Nothe, Wiltshire, World Heritage site.
Alps
The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Augustus Pitt Rivers
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 18274 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist.
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Berkshire Downs
The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.
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Chalk Group
The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the late Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England.
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Chalk stream
Chalk streams are streams that flow through chalk hills towards the sea.
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Chiltern Hills
The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.
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Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase is a chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Dome
Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.
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Dorset Downs
The Dorset Downs are an area of chalk downland in the centre of the county Dorset in south west England.
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Downland
A downland is an area of open chalk hills.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations.
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Hampshire
Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.
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Hillfort
A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.
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Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Lulworth Cove
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.
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North Downs
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.
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North Wessex Downs
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) (also known as the Chalkenwolds) is located in the English counties of West Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
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Old Harry Rocks
Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.
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Purbeck Hills
The Purbeck Hills, also called the Purbeck Ridge, are a ridge of chalk downs in Dorset, England.
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Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering.
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Seven Sisters, Sussex
The Seven Sisters is a series of chalk cliffs by the English Channel.
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South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.
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Surrey
Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.
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Sussex
Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
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The Needles
The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost Civil Parish of the Isle of Wight.
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Uffington White Horse
The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.
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Weald
The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
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White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover, part of the North Downs formation, is the name given to the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France.
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White Nothe
White Nothe (meaning "White Nose") is a chalk headland on the English Channel coast at the eastern end of Ringstead Bay, east of Weymouth in Dorset, England.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_England_Chalk_Formation
