Path at the former Strumpshaw Hill landfill site
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Path at the former Strumpshaw Hill landfill site
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 6 May 2013
Strumpshaw Hill was used to extract over one million cubic metres of sand and gravels, deposited as part of the Lowestoft Till Formation at least a quarter of a million years ago during the Ice Age. In the early 1800s, an optical telegraph was located on the site. It relayed messages from the Admiralty in London to coastal ports. More recently the area was a landfill site owned by the Norfolk County Council. The landfill is up to 20 metres deep and was closed in 1988. Now it can be accessed on a public footpath which runs along its perimeter.
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Image Location
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52.611349
Longitude
1.475392