Top of the Spetchells, west end, Tyne Riverside
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Top of the Spetchells, west end, Tyne Riverside
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 29 Aug 2010
Erosion of the paths, rabbit burrows and mole hills reveal the underlying chalk. Bird-sown Cotoneaster is also colonising the grassland here as it does on the chalk grasslands of southern England, where it smothers native species.
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Image Location
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Latitude
54.969906
Longitude
-1.856573