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Swaledale

2015 Swaledale from Kisdon Hill

Swaledale occupies the long, sinuous valley carved by the River Swale on its 45-kilometre descent from Nine Standards Rigg (662 m) on the Pennine watershed to Richmond in lower Teesdale. The dale narrows between rough gritstone scarps near Keld, broadens to a patchwork of hay-meadows around Muker and Gunnerside, then opens into a tree-fringed flood-plain west of Reeth before the river cuts through the Carboniferous escarpment to meet the Vale of Mowbray.

Wiltshire

Silbury Hill, Wiltshire

Lying across the spine of southern England, Wiltshire offers a textbook cross‑section of chalk downland, greensand vales and clay lowlands. Its long archaeological record – from 10 000‑year‑old spring‑side camps to modern military landscapes – is inseparable from that underlying geology and from the climatic swing that ended the last Ice Age.

Millbarrow long barrow (Winterbourne Monkton)

Tumulus on Millbarrow

Millbarrow once stood on a low chalk spur 2 km north‑west of Avebury, just above the spring‑line where the Kennet valley opens onto the Marlborough Downs (NGR SU 0943 7221). From its east–west‑aligned crest the ground falls gently south to Windmill Hill and east  into the Kennet valley, giving the mound clear sight of the Avebury monument complex, and easy access to water and pasture.

Horslip (Windmill Hill) Long Barrow, Avebury

Horslip Barrow - AI Recreation

Sitting on the south‑east shoulder of Windmill Hill (grid ref. SU 086 070), 140 ft (43 m) above the Kennet valley, the Horslip long barrow commands the same chalk ridge that carries the famous Early‑Neolithic causewayed enclosure 400 m upslope.

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