Mega Plinth
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Mega Plinth by Andy Beecroft as part of the Geograph project.
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Mega Plinth
Image: © Andy Beecroft Taken: 29 Sep 2022
This is a huge chalk plinth roughly 3m above the original ground on which the latest part of the large Brough housing estate being built south of the main railway track. The plinth is to raise the land above the possible flood plain underneath. The land is the former Brough Airfield associated with British Aerospace industry nearby. Whenever I see such a huge quantity of material like this, I think of the equivalent hole left in the quarry somewhere else and the thousands of lorry loads needed to get it here!
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Image Location
Latitude
53.721896
Longitude
-0.564952