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Category Archives: peat, bogs and moors
Snippet 14: Long-lost piddocks and the peat
The shore at Beckfoot, on a sunny, windy day in May: the Solway is a churned, pale brown, and a wavering white line far off in the Firth marks where the incoming tide is beating against a sandbank. Towards the … Continue reading
Posted in mud-shrimps, peat, bogs and moors, sea-bed & undersea, Snippets, submerged forest
Tagged molluscs, piddocks
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‘Cold cases’: land-scape puzzles on the Solway shore
“Mr Cash went to Beckfoot … the submerged forest was not visible and I regret to say the residents he inquired from had not even heard of it”. So wrote Brian Blake in his 1955 book The Solway Firth, which … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, dunes, peat, bogs and moors, sea-bed & undersea
Tagged piddocks
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The acronyms’ stories: imagine.
‘Alphabet soup’: AONB, EMS, MPA, MCZ, NNR, SAC, SPA, SSSI – how many more of these acronyms for conservation designations can you recall? Do you know what they mean? (If you don’t – and not many people do – you … Continue reading
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Tagged acronyms, conservation designations
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SACs, SPAs, SSSIs on the Solway Firth: Learning to love the acronyms
“Think of [the list] as not so much an inventory as a catalogue leading to compelling and interacting stories.” [1] Conservation designations: their borders aren’t marked by posts or buoys, but they are marked by lines on maps, and by … Continue reading
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Tagged acronym soup, acronyms, Marine Conservation Zone, Ramsar site
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Snippets 12: In praise of Bowness Moss
Bowness Moss or Common is one of the South Solway Mosses National Nature Reserves, NNR. The near-pristine centre of this raised mire is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, SSSI; it’s also a Special Area of Conservation, SAC. Acronyms are … Continue reading
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The Solway viaduct
The Solway is as smooth as silk, the water slipping in around the embankment that points a stubby finger towards Scotland. We have reached the embankment’s distal end by stepping and teetering along the sloping wall of dressed red sandstone … Continue reading
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Tagged James Brunlees, railway, sandstone
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Solway Shore-walker 