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    Parc Quarry was a compact underground slate quarry in the Croesor Valley, Gwynedd, North Wales. It was connected to the Croesor Tramway, which ran through...
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    The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (French pronunciation: [paʁk de byt ʃomɔ̃]; English: Park of Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern Paris...
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    and Kellow took over the management of the quarry, having had plans to reopen it for some years. Parc Quarry made slate ridging, and the amalgamation was...
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    The Parc de Belleville, one of the parks and gardens of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, is situated between the Parc des Buttes Chaumont and the Père...
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    in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. The 192-hectare area originally was a limestone quarry, then a landfill. It is in the midst of...
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    (Flint Mountain) Parc Bodlondeb and Gwenallt-parc, Lixwm Parc Linden, Lixwm Pen-y-Cefn Pasture Shotton Lagoons and Reedbeds Teilia Quarry Tyddyn-y-barcut...
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    Francon quarries are also located here. The former studios of CTV Montreal, TQS, CFCF radio & CFQR-FM (now CKBE-FM) were located in the Parc Extension...
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    later. The terrain is mostly granite which is quarried in several places, one of which is the Parc quarry near the Château Largoët. The town centre spreads...
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    Parc Montsouris (French pronunciation: [paʁk mɔ̃suʁi]; English: Montsouris Park) is a public park situated in southern Paris, France. Located in the 14th...
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    Parc de la Creueta del Coll (IPA: [ˈpaɾɡ də lə kɾəˈwɛtə ðəl ˈkɔʎ], 'Park of the Corner of the Hill') is a park in the Gràcia and Horta districts of Barcelona...
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  • located in borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension on the site of a former limestone quarry, the Miron Quarry. Its current area is 192 hectares (470...
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  • early 20th century. Moses Kellow, born at Delabole, operated the Parc Slate Quarry in Wales Cornwall portal "Cornwall County Council Website". Cornwall...
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    substantial incline to the quarry. The next branch was just south of Croesor village and served the separate Parc Slate and Slab Quarry. This branch curved away...
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    is located on avenue Simon Bolivar in the 19th arrondissement, near the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, after which it was named. The station opened on 13 February...
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    patented by Moses Kellow and produced at Parc (this example is on the former toll house at Porthmadog, which became the offices for the Croesor quarry)...
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    National Park, officially Eryri National Park in English (since 2022) and Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri in Welsh, was established in October 1951. It was the...
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    Barrillet-Deschamps and Davioud went on to build The Bois de Vincennes, Parc Monceau Parc Montsouris, and the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, using the experience and aesthetics...
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    pigments ranging from yellow and orange to red. One of the former ochre quarries can be visited via the "Sentier des Ocres" (Ochre Path), a walk of either...
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    Fron-Boeth and Pant Mawr quarries were two closely related and interconnected quarries on the western slopes of Moelwyn Mawr in Gwynedd (formerly Caernarfonshire)...
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    close to Ogof Cefn-y-Gist and Ogof Llyn Parc. starting in the quarry linked to many underground rivers. Mining Quarry Minera History.com. "'The Calch' - Minera...
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    The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. It served the Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, taking their...
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    old quarry tunnels and pathways, with sprawling vines and mosses draping over the walls. The snow leopard enclosure, built into former rock quarry. Snow...
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    Mont-Saint-Bruno Provincial Park (French: Parc Provincial du Mont-Saint-Bruno, pronounced [paʁk pʁɔvɛ̃sjal dy mɔ̃ sɛ̃ bʁyno]) is a small national park...
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    the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man were primarily built to serve quarrying, mining, and similar industries. Some of these narrow-gauge railways offered...
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    Rhosydd quarry was a slate quarry in the Moelwyn mountains, northeast of Porthmadog in North Wales. Small-scale working of the site began in the 1830s...
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    Grand Parc de l'Ouest. "Ville de Montréal - Réseau des grands parcs - Fiche Parc". ville.montreal.qc.ca. Retrieved 18 August 2015. "Grand parc de l'Ouest"...
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    Parc Georges-Brassens is a public park located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, between rue des Morillons and rue de Périchaux. Opened in 1984, it...
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    more than six million people. Built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries, they extend south from the Barrière d'Enfer ("Gate of Hell") former city...
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    the most dramatic transformations was the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, established on the site of a former quarry, complete with waterfalls and grotto. In...
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    areas in the Catalan Coastal Range, like Parc Natural del Montnegre i el Corredor, Parc de Collserola and Parc Natural del Garraf. At the same time though...
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