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How do chalk stream winterbournes & chalk aquifers make you feel? Interdisciplinary PhD student cultural ecosystem services #envpsych #wellbeing #dryrivers
Jan 28, 2021 10 tweets 10 min read
I’ve enjoyed reading @AlexJLanglands The Ancient Ways of Wessex & learned how #chalkstream #winterbournes & #springs have influenced our culture & cultural heritage - #Ridgeway paths that are now #NationalTrails

Perhaps old news to many, but new to me so here’s a short thread… Our #ridgeway paths are a bundle of numerous routes which I always assumed followed the high ground for strategic purposes & avoiding the muddy clay vales. Timperley & Brill (1965) described our #ridgeways as literally high ways, although they could have called them “dry ways”.