Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.

Tipton, a small hill overlooking White River and the surrounding flat, heavily forested and swampy valley.

Leaving a part of their army surrounding the bottom of the hill, they pushed a huge column up to the top, hoping to drive the Zulu down into the blocking forces below.

A tor is a large, free-standing residual mass ( rock outcrop ) that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest.

The Imperial gardens on the hill look over the surrounding green hill crests and valleys and the Ionian sea.

In 1937, Johnson successfully contested a special election for Texas's 10th congressional district, that covered Austin and the surrounding hill country.

Montmartre () is a hill ( the butte Montmartre ) which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank.

The name Bree means " hill " according to Tolkien, referring to the fact that the village of Bree and the surrounding Bree-land were clustered around a large hill.

The highest point of these ruins, a conical hill rising about 30 m above the level of the surrounding plain, northeast of the canal bed, is called by the Arabs Bint el-Amiror " prince's daughter.

In accordance with this cosmic symbolism, Yasovarman built his central temple on a low hill known as Phnom Bakheng, surrounding it with a moat fed from the baray.

It is an example of a gravity hill ; the attraction contains several demonstrations of what are claimed to be phenomenons relating to the surrounding area, but skeptics would argue to be optical illusions.

The hill surrounding the tunnel had been extensively quarried, extracting Bath stone.

Stone Age tools were discovered in the Sânpetru ( Saint Peter ) hill near the castle and in the surrounding villages.

It was located at the top of a 1200 meter hill with excellent visibility of the surrounding lands.

Its renowned medieval cathedral is at the top of the hill, and its two spires are visible from miles away across the flat surrounding lands.

To the east of the city centre, the Schlossberg hill provides extensive views over the city and surrounding region.

The landscape is especially beautiful during the fall, and the focal overlooking hill, the Salem Knob ( historically a public park, now privately owned ) and surrounding area offers many photographic opportunities.

The hill that the city is named after is 365 feet ( 110 m ) above the surrounding town of Long Beach.

The town consists of rolling hill country surrounding Bantam Lake, the largest natural lake in the State, covering about.

In eastern Kentucky, the dissected plateau landscape often referred to as " hill and valley " is standard terrain for the surrounding region.

Boon settled by a large body of water ( later bearing his name: Lake Boon ), upon a hill ( also bearing his name: Boon Hill ), with a vast tract of land surrounding him.

Nye Hill — The hill upon which a major portion of the city was built, and it was named for the veterinarian who built his home directly upon it, and who owned the majority of the surrounding property.

According to Henry Gannett ’ s work from “ The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States ” he states, “ The town was so named because of the bluish atmosphere surrounding the hill on which the village is located ”.

Fourth, in the meantime, it is necessary to remember that we have only begun to probe the environment immediately surrounding the earth.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

In other words, if an ideal gas is compressed and kept at constant temperature, the work done in compressing it is completely converted into heat and transferred to the surrounding heat sink.

Irrigated agriculture is restricted to the areas surrounding rivers and wherever sufficient underground water is available.

: Appointment with Death is set in Jerusalem and its surrounding area.

Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

It is the highlight of the year in Abensberg and is a celebration of the people of Abensberg and the surrounding area.

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

The central idea of the book of Amos is that God puts his people on the same level as the surrounding nations-God expects the same purity of them all.

Having concluded that everything in the world is composed of air, Anaximenes then used his theory to devise a scheme explaining the origins and nature of the earth as well as of the surrounding celestial bodies.

Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

There is a history of political controversy within organized US Ásatrú, mostly surrounding the question of how to deal with such adherents as place themselves in a context of the far right and white supremacy, notably resulting in the fragmentation of the Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.

Australian football is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials and supporters.

The drawing opens at ground level on a clearing surrounding an enormous tree that is placed in the center, dominating the picture.

This is a total of over 24, 000 jobs, since Aarau's population is about 16, 000 it draws workers from many surrounding communities.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.