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Julian's
Bower - Turf Maze |
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The
Village is
best known for the Ancient
Turf Maze Julian's
Bower from where you can
view (on a clear day)York Minster
in the North. The maze is
located on the Western side of the
village close to the Cliff Edge
is one of only three remaining turf
mazes left in Britain.
The maze is a unicursal turf maze,
43 feet (13 m) across, of indeterminate
age.
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Roman
Earthworks |
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Close
to maze are some earthworks thought to
be of Roman Origin.
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Alkborough
Flats |
Alkborough
Flats is an area of low-lying
arable farmland of nearly 4 km²
situated at the "Confluence
of the Rivers" where the
Rivers Trent and Ouse join to form the
Humber estuary. The land is now jointly
owned by the UK's Environment
Agency and English
Nature. Flood defences which
were built in the 1950s to protect the
area are being breached to allow water
to reclaim the land at high tide and
in times of flooding. The project will
create 2 km² of new intertidal
habitat in the inner part of the Humber
estuary. The new grassland will be managed
to encourage biodiversity, with reedbeds,
lagoons and grazing areas.
Alkborough Flats is the first coastal
realignment site to be developed as
part of the Humber Shoreline Management
Plan. This "managed retreat"
strategy should lessen the risks of
flooding in low-lying towns along the
Ouse and Trent by realigning existing
flood defences to create compensatory
intertidal habitat around the estuary.
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Blacktoft
Sands Bird Sanctuary |
Blacktoft
Sands Bird Sanctuary
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Walcot
Hall |
Walcot
Hall is a pleasant mansion, with beautiful
grounds, described in a survey made
in 1649 as " built of stone and
brick and containing one hall, one kitchen,
two parlours, six chambers"; but
of the age of this there is no record;
additions were made in 1700 on the south-west
side, and on the south-east in 1800
and in the latter year all the grounds
and gardens round the hall were laid
out and planted.
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[Entry
From Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900]
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