Pond in the Hurtwood
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Pond in the Hurtwood
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 25 Jun 2015
View south across the pond, towards a track which runs up a wooded valley towards the summit of Holmbury Hill. The OS plots the pond on the 1:25K mapping, but - curiously - not on the larger scale mappings. I took the photo while standing on a raised causeway, with my back to a second pond at lower level. The second pond is less overgrown with reeds - but seems to have escaped the notice of the OS altogether. My guess is that these ponds owe their origin to the iron industry which flourished in these hills in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. If I'm right, then there may well be more ponds (or traces of ponds) along the valley.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.192626
Longitude
-0.425081