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Descriptive words on OS maps
Article by David Hawgood, with 20201 words, 1,716 images and viewed 24,474 times.
Updated 13 days ago.
This is a work in progress. Through the Geograph discussion forum we are collecting examples of as many descriptive words as possible used on Ordnance Survey maps, and we want examples of others. We have also worked through OS Mastermap Real World Object Catalogue . This lists anything which can be ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 2,018 times.
Updated 16 days ago.
A: A runningman to Albert Bridge ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 2,312 times.
Updated 18 days ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Former youth hostels of Great Britain
Article by Stephen Craven, with 6158 words, 170 images and viewed 38,255 times.
Updated 9 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
Background
The idea for this article came from a discussion on the Geograph forum in March 2017 which highlighted that fact that there are hundreds of former youth hostels in Great Britain. Many of these closed over the years due to declining use or building decay, but from the early ...
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Native Butterflies of Britain and Ireland
Article by Anne Burgess, with 1041 words, 1,344 images and viewed 4,741 times.
Updated 15 months ago.
Britain and Ireland currently have just under 60 species of native butterfly. Our contributors have photographed most of them. The order is taken from https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/taxonomy.php which lists many other species which once occurred in Britain, or which may or may not once have occurred ...
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FUNGI ON GEOGRAPH and some notes about fungi
Article by M J Richardson, with 944 words, 170 images and viewed 2,260 times.
Updated 17 months ago.
Until relatively recently fungi [one fungus, several fungi] were considered to be plants, but molecular studies have shown them to be a separate kingdom of living organisms, on a par with plants and animals. With bacteria and invertebrates they are the great recyclers, returning nutrients to the ...
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Islandhop
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 10 posts, 370 images and viewed 1,093 times.
Updated 41 months ago.
This gallery preserves a theme that ran on Twitter from 30 June to 26 December 2020. The photographers were credited in the respective tweet.Islands were tweeted at random: really jumping about. Here they are collected in broad geographical groups. It's by no means comprehensive – a mere 160 ...
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Scottish Castles
Article by Oast House Archive, with 7281 words, 558 images and viewed 19,813 times.
Updated 72 months ago.
An evolving List of surviving Castles in Scotland.
This does not include earthworks and demolished castles.
Also see England, Ireland and Wales
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Aberdeenshire to Ayrshire
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*| Photo | Region | Castle | Grid square |
| 494936 | Aberdeenshire | Asloun Castle | [] ...
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Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos
Article by Chris Downer, with 52102 words, 2,760 images and viewed 41,758 times.
Updated 79 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
This article takes a little look back at the history of postal addressing, especially the period in the 1970s when the postcodes became national. We look at post towns, postal counties and postcodes and the way these have developed.
Following this, an album displays a photograph from ...
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Castles
Gallery started by Colin Smith, with 48 posts, 351 images and viewed 12,407 times.
Updated 175 months ago.
Castles by county mostly - with some county boundaries and names changing through time.Castles - Aberdeenshire ["Castle Country", with "Castle trail"] 447229 96559 477241 507903 446077 463640 476318 13971 3069 94019 115946 114446 117811 138244 172987 ...