Starting from the University of Bath, the trail links quiet woodland, rare wildlife, an Iron Age hill fort and architectural glories.

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Mr Malim's team believe it may have connected the Wrekin, the capital of the Cornovian tribe, with a hill fort near Oswestry.

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From this Iron Age hill fort, built in 400 BC, the views sweep down from the North York Moors and over to the Vale of York and the Vale of Mowbray to the distant Pennines, a low-rise mountain range sometimes dubbed "the backbone of England".

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Fort Soledad, atop the southern hill of the bay, is reconstructed in parts and offers the best view over Umatac and the rugged western shoreline.

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On September 10, 2007, Petraeus awoke at his stateside home at Fort Meyer, Virginia, which is on a hill above Arlington Cemetery.

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Burrough Hill is the site of an Iron Age fort but no major excavation had taken place there since the 1970s.

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Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School(V) Lorena Lomeli, 18, of Fort Worth will major in business information systems at Texas Christian University. (S) Amairani Duran, 17, of Fort Worth will major in biology at Texas Wesleyan University.

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High on a hill, crowning the turquoise- and red-roofed homes across the waterfront, sat a stone fort that was once a lookout for pirates.

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Now edgier parts of the borough are being celebrated, such as Fort Green (Spike Lee's home town), Dumbo (Down Underneath Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and Clinton Hill.

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