Discovering Landscape in England & Wales

Front Matter....Pages iii-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The raw material....Pages 2-7
Making the landscape....Pages 8-9
The long winter....Pages 10-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Great Whin Sill....Pages 14-15
Drumlins of the Eden Valley....Pages 16-17
High Force: a remarkable cataract....Pages 18-19
Helvellyn, Striding Edge and Red Tarn....Pages 20-22
Wastwater Screes: a Lakeland backdrop....Pages 23-25
Diamonds in limestone at Hutton Roof Crags....Pages 26-28
Gaping Gill and the Norber Erratics....Pages 29-31
Malham and the Pennines....Pages 32-34
Newtondale: an Ice Age torrent....Pages 35-36
Hook across the Humber at Spurn Head....Pages 37-38
Alport Castles....Pages 39-40
Mam Tor: the ‘shivering mountain’....Pages 41-42
Dovedale: caverns, spires and arches....Pages 43-45
The prodigious gorge at Matlock....Pages 46-48
Winsford Bottom Flash: the Cheshire Broads....Pages 49-50
The Eglwyseg Screes and the wandering Dee....Pages 51-53
Llandudno and its tombolo....Pages 54-55
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Nant Ffrancon: the Ice Age’s legacy....Pages 56-58
Llyn Llydaw: an imprisoned lake....Pages 59-61
Aberglaslyn Pass and Gorge....Pages 62-63
Snowdonia’s valley lakes....Pages 64-65
Harlech Spit and the guarded cliff....Pages 66-67
Stiperstones: the Devil’s tors....Pages 68-69
Piracy at the Devil’s Bridge....Pages 70-71
Tregaron Bog: an overgrown lake....Pages 72-73
The drowning of Solva Harbour....Pages 74-75
The Green Bridge, Stack Rocks and the Devil’s Cauldron....Pages 76-78
Mewslade Bay....Pages 79-80
Swallow holes at the Head of the Valleys....Pages 81-83
The shrinking Fens....Pages 84-85
Walton Common’s mysterious ramparts....Pages 86-87
Scolt Head Island....Pages 88-90
North Norfolk: an Ice Age margin....Pages 91-93
The Norfolk Broads....Pages 94-95
The Breckland Meres....Pages 96-98
More Breckland curiosities....Pages 99-101
The Devil’s Kneadingtrough....Pages 102-103
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Folkestone Warren: the railway’s lost property....Pages 104-105
The Seven Sisters and Beachy Head....Pages 106-108
The High Rocks of Tunbridge Wells....Pages 109-110
Symonds Yat and the meandering Wye....Pages 111-113
The slipping sides of Cleeve Hill....Pages 114-116
Cotswold misfits and the leaking Leach....Pages 117-118
The Manger of the White Horse, Uffington....Pages 119-120
Piggledene and Lockeridge....Pages 121-123
Clifton Gorge and the anomalous course of the Avon....Pages 124-125
The Cheddar Gorge: ‘a frightful chasm’....Pages 126-127
The Needles....Pages 128-130
Studland Heath and the Little Sea....Pages 131-132
Lulworth Cove....Pages 133-135
Culpepper’s Dish....Pages 136-137
Portesham’s rock-infested valley....Pages 138-139
Portland Bill: an abandoned beach....Pages 140-141
Chesil Beach and the Fleet....Pages 142-143
A coast of extraordinary landslip and great convulsion....Pages 144-146
Lynton and Lynmouth: a West Country disaster....Pages 147-148
The Valley of Rocks....Pages 149-151
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Braunton Burrows: a chain of sand hills....Pages 152-153
Hartland Quay and the old course of the Milford Water....Pages 154-155
The Dartmoor tors: Cyclopean masonry....Pages 156-157
River capture and the Lydford Gorge....Pages 158-159
Hallsands: the sea’s revenge....Pages 160-161
Roughtor: nature’s sculpture....Pages 162-163
Fowey ria and the drowned coastline of Cornwall....Pages 164-165
The Loe Bar and Pool: Cornwall’s largest lake....Pages 166-167
Back Matter....Pages 168-177