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The glen is U-shaped, formed by an ice age glacier, about long with the floor of the glen being less than 700 m ( 0. 4 miles ) wide, narrowing sharply at the Pass of Glen Coe about halfway along.
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A small, secluded, and often wooded valley is known as a dell or in Scotland as a glen.
Annandale is a broad glen in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped ; or one with a watercourse running through such a valley.
In Manx, glan is also to be found meaning glen.
The borough was named in 1889 for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company ( glen is the Scottish word for valley ), which mined in that area.
To the north of Shipley, across the River Aire, is a wooded ridge called Shipley Glen ( the word " glen " referring to the little valley beneath the ridge ).
There are several passes in the hill regions, but the only well-known glen is Glen Trool, not far from the district of Carrick in Ayrshire, the fame of which rests partly on the romantic character of its scenery, which is very wild around Loch Trool, and more especially on its associations with Robert the Bruce.
Despite being technically a glen ( the area is in the valley between Cave Hill and Carnmoney Hill ), Glengormley sits at 700 feet above sea level, and is noted for a climate noticeably colder than the adjacent Lagan valley area.
There is no normative value in Rome, no lost English glen, no hearth ember to be invoked against the hubris of modern scientism.
There is a walk up the Flowerdale burn, going past the Mackenzie house, Tigh Digh, to an impressive waterfall at the head of the glen.
Glengarriff (, meaning " Rough glen ") is a village of approximately 800 people on the N71 national secondary road in the south-west region of County Cork, Ireland.
In the nearby Glengarriff Forest is the glen that gave Glengarriff its name, ( loosely translated as: rough glen ) containing some of the oldest and most extensive oak and birch groves left in Ireland.
The village is built around a glen with a number of steep streets and paths leading to the glen floor, from where it is possible to walk by the side of Laxey River to the outflow to the sea at the small harbour and onto the beach and promenade.
It is situated among the outlying hills of the Carpathian mountains, at the head of a long well-wooded glen traversed by the Râul Târgului, a tributary of the Argeş.
The glen north of the village is situated within the Moine Supergroup.
* Glen Orchy is a glen in Scotland containing the River Orchy
There is an interesting ice house C. 1680 in the glen of the Colzium Burn which was excavated in 1977 and may still be viewed.
Toney's Brook in Glenfield Park, New Jersey | Glenfield Park In Glenfield Park, the brook continues southeast into Glen Ridge, where it flows through The Glen ( the glen for which that borough is named ).
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The name could be of Spanish origin from the word cañada ( meaning " glen "), as the Canadian River formed a steep canyon in northern New Mexico and a somewhat broad canyon in Texas.
At Glen Roy in glorious weather he was convinced that he had solved the riddle of the " parallel roads " around the glen, which he identified as raised beaches, though later geologists would support the ideas of Louis Agassiz that these had been formed by glaciation.
Both forces were separated by a short valley formed by the Santa river and the mountains, with the Punyan, Ancash and Pan de Azúcar hill at the far end of this site, behind these highs lies the deep Ancash glen, followed by the confederate trenches.
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.
* Bryce's The Geology of Arran 1855 notes: " Many years ago, a large population, the largest then collected in any one spot in island of Arran, inhabited glen, and gained a scanty subsistence by fishing and by cultivating fertile plots on the sunny hill-sides.
The local legend suggests that the Cailleach and her family were given shelter in the glen by the locals and while they stayed there the glen was always fertile and prosperous.
" Glen Rock was settled around an enormous rock left by retreating glaciers in a small valley ( glen ).
The narrow glen shows a dramatically grim grandeur, shut in on both sides by wild and precipitous mountains.
The bird also features, however, in The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, a poem by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the outcast speaker asks: " Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen / Look into my eyes and be bold?
Retreat or redeployment was made impossible by the arrival of Mar's schiltron, charging down the narrow glen, and straight into the rear of Lord Robert's men.
The village stands on the small River Lyd, which traverses a deep narrow chasm, crossed by a bridge of single span ; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in an exquisite glen.
The glen, approaching from the east on the main A82 road, is surrounded by wild and precipitous mountains.
The south side of the glen is marked by a succession of distinct peaks: Buachaille Etive Mòr is followed to the west by Buachaille Etive Beag, then by the Three Sisters, shoulders of the Bidean nam Bian massif which itself marks the western end of the glen.
Most of the Glen is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland whose visitor centre has displays about both the natural and historical significance of the glen.
The famous Clachaig Inn, a pub with a nearby camp site much favoured by climbers and hillwalkers, is sited at the bend in the glen about from Glencoe village.
An alternative descent, avoiding the horns, can be made by leaving the Beinn Alligin ridge at the col between the two summits ( in Gaelic such a feature is known as a " bealach "), where grassy slopes can be followed westwards down into a neighbouring glen.
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" Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d ' Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube.
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From there it is about to the head of the glen, then about 2 km into the glen the Way ascends the Devil's Staircase, a steep, boulder-strewn " cut " ( 352 m high ) which is part of the old military road and drove road north across the hills to Kinlochleven.
The Kings House Hotel, lying about 2 km to the east of the head of the glen towards Rannoch Moor, is a relic of the old coaching days when it was customary for tourists to drive from Ballachulish via Tyndrum to Loch Lomond.
The Lake of Menteith, in the strictest sense Scotland's only natural lake, lies about six miles ( 10 km ) to the south east of the glen, on the edge of the Trossachs area.
A male Taltos has been seen in the glen of Donnelaith, and there is someone with information about the male.
The inn is sited towards the western end of the glen at, about southeast of the modern Glencoe village, on the old road just to the north of the A82 trunk road.
It is sited in an isolated position, about 2 km to the east of the head of the glen towards Rannoch Moor, and faces towards Buachaille Etive Mor which is very popular with rock climbers.
A route of about 5 km climbs from the glen, following the mountain's southern ridge over the intervening minor summits of Stob Invercarnaig and Stob Coire an Lochain.
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