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    The Great Orme (Welsh: Y Gogarth) is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd...
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    The Great Orme Tramway (Welsh: Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally...
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  • Ormes may refer to: communes in France: Ormes, Aube Ormes, Eure Ormes, Loiret Ormes, Marne Ormes, Saône-et-Loire Ormes-et-Ville, Meurthe-et-Moselle Les...
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  • Orme may refer to: Great Orme and Little Orme, two headlands overlooking Llandudno Bay in Wales Orme, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Prince George's...
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    years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula. The origins in recorded history...
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    located at the lower end of the track (such as the upper half of the Great Orme Tramway) – in such systems, the cable that runs through the top of the...
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    from his), and founder of the original parish church, located on the Great Orme peninsula. Saint Tudno is said to have been one of the seven sons of King...
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    tourists is the Great Orme. The Little Orme has public footpaths and two summits, the higher summit has a trig point. The Little Orme was inhabited during...
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    Llandudno in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The cable car runs along the Great Orme spanning a distance of one mile forty feet (1.622 km) exactly. The cable...
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    Suez and the Sinai as early as 4000 BCE. It was extensively mined at the Great Orme Mines in Britain 3,800 years ago, using stone and bone tools. Archaeological...
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