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- The Gower Peninsula, South Wales, became the first AONB in 1956 - what does the acronym AONB stand for?
- Which seaside village near Bideford in Devon gets its name from the title of a Charles Kingsley novel?
- Lowestoft is a town in which English county?
- Queen Victoria built Balmoral Castle on the banks of which river?
- Which headland on the coast of Kent is formed largely of a shingle beach?
- Which peninsula is bounded to the west by the River Dee and to the north by the Irish Sea?
- What is 70 m long, formed in columnar basalt, and named after the hero of an 18th-century epic poem by James Macpherson?
- Which large freshwater lake supplies 40% of Northern Ireland's water?
- Which mountain range is often described as the 'backbone of England'?
- Which 618-acre island is off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man?
- Which Norfolk town, a noted seaside resort since 1760, is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea?
- Name the largest town in West Lothian, Scotland?
- What is the name of the highest peak in the Southern Fells?
- Which island of the Isles of Scilly is the southernmost settlement in the United Kingdom?
- The Uffington White Horse is a white chalk prehistoric hill figure in which Englisn county?
Answers:
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Westward Ho!
- Suffolk
- The River Dee
- Dungeness
- The Wirral
- Fingal's Cave (a sea cave on the island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides)
- Lough Neagh
- The Pennines
- Calf of Man
- Great Yarmouth
- Livingstone
- Scafell Pike
- St Agnes
- Oxfordshire
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