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CAUSEWAY

A causeway is a raised road across a low or wet piece of land.
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HEREWARD THE WAKE

Hereward the Wake was an English patriot. After the Norman conquest he held out at the head of the English resistance for about a year in the Isle of Ely, until William penetrated into the marshes by building a causeway. Hereward escaped, but his fate after that is unknown.
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BASALT

Basalt is an igneous rock, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. It is usually of a greenish black colour, or of some dull brown shade, or black. It constitutes immense beds in some regions, and also occurs in veins or dikes cutting through other rocks. It has often a prismatic structure as at the Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, where the columns are as regular as if the work of art. It is a very tough and heavy rock, and is one of the best materials for macadamising roads.
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BRADING

Brading (recorded in the Domesday Book as Beradinz) was a harbour village on the Isle of Wight, however since 1880 a 2 km long causeway has cut off the town from the sea.
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CAUSEWAY

Causeway is a village in Hampshire, England.
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CAUSEWAY END

Causeway End is a village in Cumbria, England.
Causeway End is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Causeway End is a village in Essex, England.
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COCKING CAUSEWAY

Cocking Causeway is a village in West Sussex, England.
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CONAKRY

Conakry is the capital of Guinea. It is a port on the island of Tumbo linked with the mainland by a causeway. The city was established in 1889 with the technical college built in 1963.
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CRIBBS CAUSEWAY

Cribbs Causeway is a village in Gloucestershire, England.
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GIANT'S CAUSEWAY

The Giant's Causeway is an extensive and extraordinary assemblage of polygonal basaltic columns on the north coast of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, between Bengore Head and Port Rush. The name is sometimes given to the whole range of basalt cliffs along the coast, some of which reach the height of 400 or 500 feet; but it is more properly restricted to a small portion of it where a platform of closely-arranged basalt columns from 15 to 36 feet in height runs down into the sea in three divisions, known as the Little, the Middle, and the Grand Causeway. The last is from 20 to 30 feet wide, and stretches some 900 feet into the sea. The Giant's Causeway derives its name from the legend that it was built by giants as a road which was to stretch across the sea to Scotland. There are similar formations on the west coast of Scotland, on the island of Staffa.
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