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The town of Dunoon on the Cowal peninsula lies on the shores of the Clyde just to the south of the loch, and houses continue round the villages of Kirn, Hunter's Quay at the point with the landing slip for Western Ferries, Ardnadam and past Lazaretto Point, the village of Sandbank, with open countryside at the end of the loch, then on the northern shore Kilmun, and at Strone Point the village of Strone continues round to the western shore of the Clyde, almost joining Blairmore on Loch Long.
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He attended Dunoon Grammar School ( Dunoon, Cowal ), lodging in the town with a landlady and going home during the holidays, before enrolling at the University of Glasgow, where he studied History from 1956 to 1959, and then Law, from 1959 to 1962.
Dunoon ( Dùn Omhain in Gaelic ) is a resort town situated on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll, Scotland.
The West Coast Motors 486 service provides a regular return journey from Dunoon town centre to Inveraray, where it connects with a Scottish Citylink service onward to Campbeltown and Oban.
In view is the larger of the stadium's two grandstand s. Dunoon town centre, to the south, is in view.
The town's sporting arena is Dunoon Stadium, which is located in the north of the town, near Dunoon Grammar School.
American actress Julianne Moore has connections to Dunoon, as her mother is originally from the town.
Grant Morrison, writer of Superman and Batman comic books, has moved from hometown Glasgow to a renovated mansion just outside of Dunoon, and spends part of the year in the town, and part in Los Angeles.
" Dunoon is referenced in the 2010 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre sketch ' The Getaway ', in which the bank-robbing Socks mistakenly heist four kilos of small denomination coins and are forced to scale back their hideaway destination from Venezuela to the small Scottish town.
A car ferry service is run by Western Ferries from McInroy's Point on the west side of the town to Hunter's Quay to the north of Dunoon.
Innellan is a village that lies on the east shore of the Cowal peninsula, on the Firth of Clyde, 4 miles south of the town of Dunoon in Scotland, United Kingdom.
The village ’ s strip of shops ( which once numbered fourteen ) has now been reduced to just the Post Office, but other services are provided by the nearby town of Dunoon, which is linked by a bus service.
town and on
McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.
They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.
The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;
Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.
He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.
This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.
She signed the letters quickly, stamped them, and placed them on the hall table for Raphael to mail in town.
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
However, few are taxed, and the owners and location of most boats are unknown to the assessors on the date of assessment of town valuations.
Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
in the double sentence the smaller the town, the friendlier the people it will generally be on the subjects the town and the people.
town and peninsula
To the south-west of this peninsula lies the Place Bonaparte, a quarter frequented chiefly by winter visitors attracted by the mild climate of the town.
From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.
On April 2, 1936, the Reich Air Ministry paid 750, 000 reichsmarks to the town of Wolgast for the whole Northern peninsula of the Baltic island of Usedom.
# Saaremaa 3-day running marathon takes place on the roads around Kuressaare town and Sõrve peninsula.
The town of Gulf Shores lies just outside of the bay, on the Fort Morgan peninsula.
To the north is the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the splendid Basilica of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of San Sabino ( 1035 – 1171 ) and the Swabian Castle built for Frederick II, which is now also a major nightlife district.
Parts of the town are located on the peninsula of Jeløy.
Instead, Bering's party, it was decided, would travel over land and river from St. Petersburg to Okhotsk, a small port town on Russia's eastern coast, and then by sea from Okhotsk to the Kamchatka peninsula, where they could start their voyage of exploration.
It was formed by a peninsula with highlands in the centre and the large town of Dol Amroth on the western shores.
It is reached by Route 198, which extends inland from the northern shore of the peninsula, soon climbing into the mountains and entering vast forests, crossing several small rivers before reaching the town.
Prior to European exploration and settlement the Pinellas peninsula was inhabited by the Tocobaga, who built a town and large temple mound overlooking the bay in what is now Safety Harbor.
On the other side of the peninsula, the head town of the Chontal province of Acalan ( Itzamkanac ) venerated Ixchel as one its main deities.
It is plac'd on a peninsula between the River Yare and the sea ; the two last lying parallel to one another, and the town in the middle: The river lies on the west-side of the town, and being grown very large and deep, by a conflux of all the rivers on this side the county, forms the haven ; and the town facing to the west also, and open to the river, makes the finest key in England, if not in Europe, not inferior even to that of Marseilles itself.
The park is a peninsula of volcanic origin, covered largely by rainforest ; the maximum elevation is 267 m. The nearest major town is Mackay, about 40 km to the southeast.
In the partition of the realm, he received as his share the town of Paris, the country to the north as far as the river Somme, to the west as far as the English Channel, and the Armorican peninsula ( modern Brittany ).
The CDP includes the traditional town center and the peninsula known as Saybrook Point.
Contrary to popular belief, the town does not sit on a barrier island but on a narrow peninsula which resembles a barrier island ( unless one considers a narrow man-made boat canal well inland that connects White Creek to Little Assawoman Bay ).
Sewall's Point is a town located on the peninsula of the same name in Martin County, Florida, United States.
Both the town and the peninsula are named for Capt.
It is bordered by water on the south, east, and west due to its peninsula shape of the entire town.
The town lies near the geographical center of the Florida peninsula.
The town of Ponce Inlet is located on the southern tip of a beach peninsula, south of Daytona Beach and Daytona Beach Shores.
With the construction of Rend Lake, the town is now located on a peninsula between the main arms of the Lake, affording excellent recreational opportunities.
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