Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd; colloquially “The Bay”) is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely. The body of water was converted into a 500-acre (2.0 km2) lake as part of a UK Government redevelopment […]
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Wells-next-the-Sea is a port town on the north coast of Norfolk, England. The civil parish has an area of 16.31 km2 (6.30 sq mi) and in 2001 had a population of 2,451, reducing to 2,165 at the 2011 census. Wells is 15 miles (24 km) to the east of the resort of Hunstanton, 20 miles […]
Cromer (/ˈkroʊmər/ KROH-mər) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is 23 miles (37 kilometres) north of Norwich, 116 miles (187 kilometres) north-northeast of London and four miles (six kilometres) east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are North […]
Sheringham (/ˈʃɛrɪŋəm/; population 7,367) is a seaside town and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England. The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat, Latin for “The sea enriches and the pine adorns”. Sheringham town centre is centred on a traditional high street […]
Portmeirion (/pɔːtˈmeriən/; Welsh pronunciation: [pɔrtˈmei̯rjɔn]) is a folly tourist village in Gwynedd (historically in Meirionnydd), north Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the Baroque style and is now owned by a charitable trust. The village is located in the Penrhyndeudraeth community, on the River Dwyryd estuary, […]
Pevensey Bay is an old fishing village founded in the 1600s as Wallsend, the end of the sea wall from Eastbourne. Even now, it is only just above sea level, and at high tide in the winter, the sea sometimes breaks through the sea defences. This area was underwater during the Norman invasion, and only […]
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