South Downs, West Sussex. Looking down the Devil's Dyke towards Saddlescombe.

                                                                                                         Commentary.

Dry chalk valleys like this are common
in the North and South Downs.
They are evidence of a time when the 
water-table was much higher.
Vast quantities of melt-water will
have poured down these hills,
off ice-caps whose southerly edge
fringed the London Basin,
ten to twelve thousand years ago.
This winding, deep-cut combe looks as though
it may have been chiselled out by the Devil himself.
Actually, sheep have done more to distinguish some
key features of these hills.
Their relentless chomping steadily reduced the
wooded bluffs as they consumed saplings
as well as grass.
Now the lush turf bears Bee Orchids,
Skylarks, Fallow Deer and Roman Snails
instead of Beech, Yew and Ash forests,
making for the smooth-lined Downs of 
this National Park.

   

Taken in: UK / England / Mid Sussex District / Poynings (show map)

Taken on: September 19, 2010

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