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    Bidston Hill is 100 acres (0.40 km2) of heathland and woodland containing historic buildings and ancient rock carvings, on the Wirral Peninsula, near the...
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    the St Oswald's Church grounds indicate an early origin to the site. Bidston Hill contains a number of ancient rock carvings, including that of a Sun Goddess...
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    Bidston Windmill is situated on Bidston Hill, near Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is believed that there has been a windmill, on this...
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    The less continuous eastern ridge consists of Bidston Hill (231 ft), Prenton (259 ft) and Storeton Hill (229 ft). The shallow Fender valley runs between...
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    Hill Bark (also known as Bidston Court) is a large country house to the south of the hamlet of Frankby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in...
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    of Bidston and St James Ward. The area is bounded by Bidston to the north, Upton to the west and Noctorum to the south. The elevation of Bidston Hill is...
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    Southport Pier St Helen's Church, Sefton – Grade I Listed Building Bidston Hill and Bidston Windmill Birkenhead Park Birkenhead Priory Fort Perch Rock Hamilton...
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    Burns' home at Alloway, Ayrshire. The Tam O' Shanter Urban Cottage on Bidston Hill, Wirral, Merseyside was named after the poem in 1837 after being built...
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    records had been kept at Bidston Hill since 1867, but records for atmospheric pressure go back as far as at least 1846. Bidston closed down in 2002 but...
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  • and one in the outskirts of the suburb. To the east of the village is Bidston Hill which contains four listed buildings, namely an observatory, a lighthouse...
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    Accident report Levens Viaduct 1903, "Natural Areas and Greenspaces: Bidston Hill". Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Archived from the original on 9 December...
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    1866, when the dock was redeveloped, the observatory was relocated to Bidston Hill on the Wirral Peninsula. In 1868, Waterloo Dock was split in two separate...
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    Grayson, Ould is given credit for the design of Hill Bark, originally built as Bidston Court in Bidston Hill, and later moved to Frankby, Merseyside. The...
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    front from Keen's Knoll to Kh. 'Amuriye was attacked. Table Hill, Bidston Hill, Forfar Hill Fife Knoll, Kh. 'Amuriye and the village of Turmus 'Aya were...
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    Art Gallery, Liverpool View from Bidston Hill (c.1865), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool A Day's Sport at Bidston Hill (c.1865), Tate Britain, London Carving...
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    low-lying hill, in a wide and shallow glacial U-shaped valley, formed during the Quaternary Ice Age, between Bidston Hill and Thurstaston Hill. The underlying...
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    destroyed by a storm in 1769, with its replacement, Bidston Lighthouse, built in 1771 on Bidston Hill. The other two lighthouses permitted by the Act were...
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    latter was soon destroyed by the sea and was replaced by a lighthouse on Bidston Hill in 1771. The lighthouse was operational until 14 July 1908, with the...
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  • Hill. Retrieved 21 July 2015. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southern England". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
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    over by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1908. He built a house called 'Bidston Court' on Bidston Hill in Birkenhead in 1891 in Birkenhead. It was designed by Edward...
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    of wading birds. There are also good views of Bidston Hill and Caldy Hill. Further afield, Winter Hill is often visible beyond Liverpool and, in the opposite...
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    local occurrence of carr is in the form Bedestonecarre recorded for Bidston Hill on the Wirral Peninsula in 1303. This type of name is difficult to date...
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    2020 in the northwest of England, using the acoustics of Bidston Observatory atop Bidston Hill on the Wirral, including its geometrically perfect wooden...
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  • Sandstone forms many of the more prominent hills in the area such as Irby Hill, Storeton Hill and Bidston Hill on Wirral and also the tidal island of Hilbre...
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    the Observatory being relocated in 1866 to Bidston Hill on the Wirral, where Hutchinson had established Bidston Lighthouse in 1771. It was built with sandstone...
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  • Wirral Councils' website. Arrowe Country Park Ashton Park, West Kirby Bidston Hill Birkenhead Park Central Park Wallasey Coronation Gardens, West Kirby...
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    village of Woodchurch is situated on a lower prominence between Bidston Hill and Thurstaston Hill, with the centre of the village at an elevation of approximately...
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  • him as director of the observatory, which had since been relocated to Bidston Hill. Hartnup's work at the Liverpool Observatory consisted of astronomical...
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    St Oswald's Church is in Bidston, an area of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated...
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    Lighthouses in England Anvil Point Bamburgh Beachy Head Belle Tout Berry Head Bidston Hill Bishop Rock Black Nore Blyth Bow Creek Bull Point Burnham-on-Sea High...
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