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United Kingdom, 10 cards

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10 cards to 30 July 2026

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The River Tees

The Tees drops 21 metres at High Force in the Pennines, then meanders past Yarm to a wide industrial estuary at Teesmouth.

  • River landscape
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Nissan in Sunderland

A Japanese TNC whose Sunderland plant, the biggest car factory in the UK, shows the benefits and risks of foreign investment.

  • Transnational corporation
  • UK economic change
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Banbury flood management scheme

An £18.5 million storage reservoir beside the M40, opened in 2012, holds back the River Cherwell to keep Banbury dry.

  • Flood management
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Bristol, UK

A growing UK city with strong aerospace and digital industries, sharp inequality between wards, and major regeneration at Temple Quarter.

  • Major UK city
  • Urban regeneration
  • UK economic change
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The Lake District

England's largest National Park, a glaciated upland of corries, aretes and ribbon lakes under heavy tourist pressure.

  • Glaciated landscape
  • Tourism area
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The Holderness Coast

Europe's fastest eroding coastline loses about 2 metres of soft boulder clay cliffs a year, and defences protect some towns while speeding erosion elsewhere.

  • Coastal landscape
  • Coastal management
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Somerset Levels floods, winter 2013 to 2014

Record winter rain drowned 6,900 hectares of drained farmland for weeks, cutting off villages and prompting a £100 million flood plan.

  • River flood event
  • UK extreme weather
  • Flood management
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Epping Forest

An ancient pollarded woodland of 2,400 hectares on London's edge, managed by the City of London under heavy recreation pressure.

  • Deciduous woodland
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Lyme Regis coastal management scheme

Phased sea walls, beach nourishment and cliff stabilisation costing tens of millions protect a small Dorset tourist town built on unstable slipping cliffs.

  • Coastal management
  • Tourism area

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Showing 30 July 2026 and earlier

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  • Each tick under the map is one day. Solid magenta days published an edition, and choosing one hides everything published after it.