The Wonder landslip
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The Wonder landslip
Image: © John Winder Taken: 9 Mar 2014
I had never heard of this until I found it on a map and went for a walk to see it. Apparently, in 1575 a large area of Marcle Hill began to move and over the course of three days, slid perhaps four hundred feet downhll, taking with it cattle, trees, a chapel (whose bell was unearthed in a field nearly 300 years later) and about 60 000 cubic metres of earth. It must have made local estate agents' lives very difficult for a while. The nearby Slip Inn (now sadly closed, as I discovered when we visited hoping for a pint after our walk) is named after this event.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.025333
Longitude
-2.536145