Nov 19, 2008, 14:14
The colour one is of the beechwoods at Water Lane; the quarrying of the local limestone in yesteryear has long been overgrown and/or replanted with beech: always a good plantation long-termer when they were cutting many trees down for shipping.
The mono is interesting. No, really.
That hummock is one of many and it's not a natural feature: it is the remains of a series of vertical vents into Sapperton Tunnel, which was a canal engineered in the 18th Century and which runs underground at this point.
Doubly interestingly....Sapperton has tiny church close by. It is quiet and unremarkable. One of the forgotten(but still visible) graves is of a lady called Rebekah.
She was the first wife of a chap called Charles Mason, another locally-groomed lad.
This Mason became Astronomer Royal when America was still in short trousers: along with another bloke called Dixon.
Together, they did a few interesting things, like observing the Transit of Venus.
In their spare time they did a job in the Colonies, surveying a territorial line using their mastery of the new discovery of longitude.
So as to avoid confusion, they called the line, creatively enough, the Mason-Dixon Line.
So...next time you guys whistle Dixie......
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The mono is interesting. No, really.
That hummock is one of many and it's not a natural feature: it is the remains of a series of vertical vents into Sapperton Tunnel, which was a canal engineered in the 18th Century and which runs underground at this point.
Doubly interestingly....Sapperton has tiny church close by. It is quiet and unremarkable. One of the forgotten(but still visible) graves is of a lady called Rebekah.
She was the first wife of a chap called Charles Mason, another locally-groomed lad.
This Mason became Astronomer Royal when America was still in short trousers: along with another bloke called Dixon.
Together, they did a few interesting things, like observing the Transit of Venus.
In their spare time they did a job in the Colonies, surveying a territorial line using their mastery of the new discovery of longitude.
So as to avoid confusion, they called the line, creatively enough, the Mason-Dixon Line.
So...next time you guys whistle Dixie......
