The River Till near Asserton

Introduction

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The River Till near Asserton

Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 13 Mar 2007

Unlike many of the chalk downland valleys across the Salisbury Plain, the valley of the River Till is the only one with a permanent flow of water. Numerous springs high up in the heart of the Plain continuously feed the little river, which rises near Tilshead and flows south through Shrewton, Winterbourne Stoke and Berwick St James before merging with the much larger River Wylye at Stapleford. Under normal conditions, even in the wettest of winters, the porous nature of chalk will absorb the rainfall, but occasionally under quite exceptional conditions flash floods can occur across chalk downland.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.15498
Longitude
-1.897001