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Neilson's Monument

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Neilson's Monument
Photo: Walter Baxter, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph · Report the wrong picture

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Map note: Neilson's Monument is recorded near Ringford, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland as a monument. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

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Picture notes
  • Billy McCrorie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
  • Forrest and Jen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andy Farrington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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