Brickkiln Plantation, East Dorset

Britford, water meadows

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An extensive area of irrigation channels fed by River Avon, deliberately flooded in winter, to allow water into fields via ditches, to keep soil warmer and increase fertility. The area is an SSSI: http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002342.pdf

Uploaded to Geograph by Mike Faherty on 14 December 2013

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