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Catering: Local pubs include the The Raven in Hexton and The View in Pegsdon. More options including shops can be found in Barton-le-Clay. There is a very clever use of imagery in these lines. By describing the land as “empty” but at the same time as somehow “full”, a reader is left to fill in the blanks. This creates an uneasy feeling, one that is foreboding and might foreshadow some revelation down the line. Catering options include numerous cafes and pubs in central or canal side in Berkhamsted. Or the White Horse pub in Bourne End.

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Location From the parking area you can walk down the lane to Bottom Farm on the floor of the Hertfordshire Bourne valley. In 1895 the Medina Cement Company leased part of the chalk pit and concluded an agreement with the Isle of Wight Central Railway for the haulage of chalk, using the cement company’s own wagons, to the mills The work was based on Paramoudra Flints (vertical columnar or barrel shaped structures up to 1.5 m high with a cemented chalk core). Animals burrowed in the original chalk in a circular manner and this biogenic activity produced H2S which is anaerobic. The sea water above the burrow contained O2 so a redox boundary formed with the result that the silica (sponge spicules etc.) came out of solution (due to reduced pH) whilst the sediment was still soft, to form solid silica – flint (Clayton 1986). In the case of increased clay deposition flint production reduced because the silica was absorbed onto the clay minerals. On the British Geological Survey’s map, chalk is represented by a swathe of pale, limey green that begins on the east coast of Yorkshire and curves in a sinuous green sweep down the east coast, breaking off where the Wash nibbles inland. 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. The Chalk Pit’ by Edward Thomas is a lyrical depiction of an abandoned chalk-pit and the “fullness” or life one speaker senses there.Thomas John Ley (28 October 1880–24 July 1947) was an Australian politician who was convicted of murder in England. He is widely suspected to have been involved in the deaths of a number of people in Australia, including political rivals. [1] Early life [ edit ]

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Location: Grid Reference TL 203013; SatNav WD7 9AW . Vehicular access is down an unmade road off Rectory Lane, Radlett which leads to two cottages and the entrance to a farmyard / industrial area. The locality can also be accessed via several public paths leading from Ridge, Shenley and South Mimms where public houses can be found which offer food and drink. Engrossing...[Griffiths's] portrayal of issues surrounding homelessness is compassionate and nuanced." - Publishers WeeklyChalk was frequently quarried in Hertfordshire and across the Chilterns , but besides being quarried it was often more convenient to sink shafts to mine chalk from just below the Lower London Tertiaries. The ‘Chalk Drawers Arms’ pub at nearby Colney Heath (TL 208060) is a reminder of this activity in which small groups of men sank shafts, excavated the chalk and spread it on the land as a primitive manure. The Shenley Chalk Mine is one of the few places where the surface features of this activity can be examined by geologists. The strangeness of this exchange and the experience the first speaker alone seems to be having, is expanded when he says that “another place,” real or imaginary, “may have combined with” the chalk-pit they see in front of them. The sequence contains various fossiliferous beds, one of which (the Entolium Bed) has yielded the type specimen of Turritella dibleyi and contains 25 other species known from no other locality. 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. At Culand lesser erosion is seen below the Entolium Bed. The morphology of the valleys on the scarp face slopes contrast with characteristics of those on the dip slope. In this part of the NE Chilterns scarp face valleys are typically steep sided slopes, usually short, blunt ended; often have a flat valley floor marked right angle bends. Their ‘youthful’ appearance suggests they may result from a later stage of erosion. In 1886, Ley's mother moved the family to Australia along with his maternal grandmother. They settled in Sydney, where he attended Crown Street Public School until the age of 10. He began working as a young boy, initially as a paper-boy and messenger, then later as an assistant in his mother's grocery store and as a farm labourer at Windsor. Ley learned shorthand while living in Windsor and at the age of fourteen secured a position as a junior clerk and stenographer with a solicitor on Pitt Street. He joined the office of Norton, Smith & Co. in 1901 and in 1906 became an articled clerk. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1914. [1]

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The chalk world began to come into existence around 80-100 million years ago, when the Earth was entering a warming phase. Seas rose rapidly, and one third of the landmasses present today disappeared beneath the rising waves. Geologists call this period the Cretaceous, after creta, the Latin for “chalk”, and it is the longest geological time period on the stratigraphic chart: at 80 million years, it lasted far longer than the 65 million years that have elapsed since it ended.Relict pingos and icings are sometimes hard to tell apart without very detailed subsurface investigation, and the features at Boxmoor are likely to include both types. Pingos tend to be circular, while naleds are elongated along the direction of flow. Pingos are expected to have a raised circular rim (as can be seen dramatically in examples such as East Walton Common in Norfolk), but the Boxmoor features are small and any rampart would be unlikely to survive the erosion of several thousand years. Flood, S. & Ruston, A . (2004). Dury & Andrews map of Hertfordshire 1766. Hertfordshire Record Society. Nearby Attractions: The de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, which is currently open from March to October on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, is two miles away by road (SatNav AL2 1BU). Visit www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk for up to date details.