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Wye Valley

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The Wye Valley is a valley along the border of Wales and England, carved by the River Wye, the fourth-longest river in the United Kingdom, as it runs from the Cambrian Mountains through Hereford to the Severn Estuary at Chepstow. Its lower stretch, a 72-kilometer length of the river prized for limestone gorge scenery and dense native woodland, is protected as the Wye Valley National Landscape, formerly an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, covering 326 square kilometers across Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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National Park or Reserve 1
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Locally or Regionally Protected 1
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Erosion, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Wye Valley

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Wye Valley
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Source Wikidata: Wye Valley
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1. Wikidata: Wye Valley
  • Wikidata Q1332478, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata P1435 heritage-designation or P3425 Natura 2000 claim on the formation's own item (w-bbfill-earth2-0926)
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Wye Valley (Wikipedia)
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The Wye Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Gwy) is a valley in Wales and England.
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