The Wind, Water and Wheels event, organised by City College and Active Norfolk, takes place at Chapelfield Plain in the city.

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It dwarfed all of the other structures in town and dominated the entire mountain plain that surrounded the city.

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The drive takes you north from the city across the plain and through the Rawanduz Gorge before climbing into the Zagros along the British-built Hamilton Road, named after New Zealander, Archibald Hamilton.

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Ophthalmology treatment offered at the Royal Eye Infirmary at Mutley Plain in Plymouth is moving to the city's Derriford Hospital.

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Good descriptions of the Nullarbor (which means "treeless") Plain and of the fabulously awful industrial city of Port Hedland, north of the Outback Coast.

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She had no time for semantics: whether to include deaths outside the city walls, whether the plain-clothes soldiers had been billeted with civilians, and so on.

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If you drove to Jerusalem this evening from Tel Aviv, as the coastal plain suddenly ended 25 kilometers from the city at Shaar Haguy or Bab el Wahd, you reached the starting point of the siege of Jerusalem from 1947.

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We settled in Verona, where the Alps peter out in the north Italian plain, a small, elegant, conservative city, unquestioningly Catholic and immensely proud of its huge Roman arena and frescoed Renaissance piazzas.

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I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.

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Reporters at The Plain Dealer, a local newspaper, along with officials at City Hall and most of Cleveland have largely bought the union's story.

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General Description Bordered to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, this biosphere reserve is situated in the lower coastal plain in the Carolinian-South Atlantic region close to the city of Charleston.

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It is here that they will spend the night in the huge tent city, as per Islamic tradition -- then proceed at dawn to the plain of Arafat: The culmination of the Hajj.

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Norwich City Council has been working with the BBC and LOCOG to find a suitable site and Chapelfield Plain has been chosen after much deliberation.

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