Burwell: clunch walls on Reach Road
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Burwell: clunch walls on Reach Road
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 25 Feb 2022
The walls of these Victorian cottages (but not I think their rendered extensions) are clunch, the local building stone, a type of chalk. Clunch is soft and weathers quickly, so the quoins and window reveals are brick.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.267023
Longitude
0.323654