Marl has been used as a soil conditioner and acid soil neutralizing agent
is used for the manufacture of cement
There are various references to where the name 'Savernake' originates from, with one suggesting it comes from the Old Cornish word 'saran', meaning savour, in reference to a sweet smelling fern found in the forest, or the word 'savhr' (savern-acre) signifying sand or gravel relating to the geographical nature of the ...
Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant ... H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violet–blue flowers in "bluebell woods", but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta is native to the western parts of Atlantic Europe, from north-western Spain and north-western Portugal, to the Netherlands and the British Isles. It is found in Belgium, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Spain
Despite the wide distribution of H. non-scripta, it reaches its greatest densities in the British Isles (and) bluebells are often used as an indicator species to identify ancient woodland
various references to where the name 'Savernake' originates from, with one suggesting it comes from the Old Cornish word 'saran', meaning savour, in reference to a sweet smelling fern found in the forest, or the word 'savhr' (savern-acre) signifying sand or gravel
I seem to remember the term 'hangers' for groups of trees growing on boulder clay deposits on chalk downland. A combination of chalky boulder clay mixed up through the processes of solifluction and soil creep could help to develop these 'marls'.
they covered the whole surface with a thin layer of clay
boulder clay deposits
Marland Cream brickwork is a feature of North Devon. The hard cream bricks were made at Marland Moor by a succession of companies using stoneware ball clays dug from the Petrockstowe Basin.
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