May 2018

29th May, 2018. The example of Holland (clay banks continued). Also Kilnsea Visitor Centre.

Having considered Sunk Island the authors of Tidal Lands then describe the clay banks of ‘Holland’ in some detail. The background to this is that about 50% of the Netherlands is below one metre above sea level, 28% being below sea level. The techniques of reclaiming coastal lowlands have been pioneered by the Dutch since the […]

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28th May, 2018. ‘Slob land’ (clay banks continued).

‘This art (the ‘inning’ of saltings and coastal marshes) is coeval with civilisation’ (Tidal Lands, p.121). The authors use the interesting term ‘slob land’ to define un-reclaimed coastal lowland marsh land (often saltmarsh) – whether the word ‘slob’ was first used in its human context or environmental context I have yet to find out, in neither

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23rd May, 2018. Pernicious and invasive plants.

An informative site re the above is Gov. UK – Environmental Management – Wildlife and Habitat Conservation (this jointly published by Natural England, Environment Agency and Department of the Environment). Although persons can be fined or imprisoned for allowing pernicious weeds to spread from their land to that of a neighbour or into ‘the wild’ it

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