The burrows were up to several cm in thickness and are now hollow, in some cases penetrating metre-scale blocks the original sediment infill having washed out (Figure 3). This is noted as the site where William Cobbett in 1822 was amazed and delighted at the view, which he compared to "looking from the top of a castle down into the sea; except that the valley was land not water".

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The whole of southern England has been beautifully picked out by that periglacial weathering,” Farrant said. We spend a huge amount of time on desk studies trying to work out where everything is or where it might be. Very often flow starts at a series of springs just above White Hill (SP 991052), and sometimes a small lake accumulates here beside the road, but at other times it has started a short distance downstream below Mounts Hill (Mounts Rise). It made sense, I was thinking, that the first people to live here headed for this place, climbed up the hill to where a view of the world opened out. In the south, the chalk centres on Salisbury Plain, radiating out in four great ridges: heading west, the Dorset Downs; heading east, the North Downs, the South Downs and the Chilterns.

I joined Farrant and his BGS colleagues there on a warm day of blue skies and strong, low autumn light. Nearby Attraction – Berkhamsted Castle (HP4 1LJ) is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in central Berkhamsted.

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Shide Chalk Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interestas it has a chalk grassland flora and a shadedstream, which has a good variety of mosses andliverworts growing by it. The web site 'Disused Railway Stations – Totternhoe Quarries' is a well illustrated historical account of Totternhoe Quarry.Many common birds nest within the site including great tit and wood pigeon within the wooded areas, blue tit and chaffinch in the scrub, and jackdaw in holes within the steep eastern cliff face. A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it “is” another.

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Similar features can be seen in rough meadows on the upper reaches of several other chalk streams, notably the Gade and Ver valleys. As we began to climb, we passed an exposed bank of chalk, created when the path was cut into the hillside.The precise extent of the flow is less predictable as various parts of the valley can be occupied by the surface stream in different years or even the same year. The first speaker knows exactly what the second is talking about and for the reason of their “free thought, free love” does not want to get involved with them. He had written an essay on Chalk-Pits, published in The Last Sheaf, in which he described the chalk and marl pits that dotted the South Country as being "among the works of men that rapidly become works of Nature and can be admired without misanthropy.

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The scrub habitat in these pits provides nesting and feeding sites for more than 60 species of bird. Discover the history of this important military site, including how it defended the nation from 1869 and its use as a site for secret rocket testing in the 1950s. The country is a marbled mass of forest green, caramel brown, bubblegum pink, rich purple and pale lavender.

The Hertfordshire Bourne (Bourne Gutter) was made famous by John (later Sir John) Evans, who was the first in 1878 to describe its intermittent flow. Both kinds of ice accumulation can leave an impression on the ground when they eventually melt, which initially forms a pond then gradually silts up. The quarry remains the property of the Cowdray Estate, who manage it as part of their pheasant shooting. The first speaker concludes his description by asking the second if “anything unusual” has “happened here”. This bed is known to be the equivalent of the Tottenhoe Stone, an important condensed bed that lies above the eroded top of the Chalk Marl, north of the Thames.