Dunstable: Cottage Bottom Fields Local Nature Reserve (2)
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Dunstable: Cottage Bottom Fields Local Nature Reserve (2)
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 11 Jan 2008
I visited this area in the hope of photographing the mediaeval cultivation terraces, known as strip lynchets, and shown on the Ordnance Survey mapping on the side of the downs. Unfortunately the terraces are covered in scrubby thorn vegetation, not really visible from this viewpoint, and the weather conditions were somewhat less than benign for exploration... However the whole side of the hill forms the 14 hectare Cottage Bottom Fields Local Nature Reserve. See Image for a view in the opposite direction.
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Image Location
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51.875239
Longitude
-0.495044