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 The famous White Cliffs of Dover stand guard at the Gateway to
England where millions pass each year on their journey to or from
the continent. In some places over 300 feet high.
The Cliffs
are a symbol of the nation's strength against enemies and a
reassuring sight to returning travellers, they have been
immortalised in song, in literature and in art.
Around seventy million years ago this part of Britain was
submerged by a shallow sea. The sea bottom was made of a white mud
formed from the fragments of coccoliths (skeletons of tiny
algae)
This mud was later to become the chalk.
The coccoliths are too small to be seen without a powerful
microscope but if you look carefully you will find fossils of some
of the larger inhabitants of the chalk sea such as sponges, shells and urchins.
Avebury
Dartmoor Roman bath Stonehenge
Big Ben
Nelsons Cliffs Dover
Hadrian's Wall
Parliament
Lands End
Shakespeare
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