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Ardleigh Gravel Pit is a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) ... A footpath between Slough Lane and Park Farm runs along its north-east boundary. East of the main site is a small ...
Its main importance lies in its extensive diversity of birdlife in lakes in former gravel pits. The site is divided into three areas. The great majority is in an area of four lakes bounded on the west by the River Colne and on the east by the Grand Union Canal. The river forms the boundary between Greater London to the east and Buckinghamshire ...
A Paleo-Indian fluted point, a very rare stone tool, was among them.[1] At the time of its discovery it was the oldest such site east of the Mississippi.[2] The site has been at the center of a battle between local archaeologists and the Pleasant Valley-based Dutchess Quarry and Supply Company, which actively produces dolomite gravel on the site."
To the north of the site at Turnford Pit North, are a number of small areas of grassland believed to represent relics of the habitat which preceded gravel extraction. These fragments of agriculturally unimproved grassland are of a dry, rather calcareous, type which is rarely found in a river valley.
The Idle Valley Nature Reserve, also known as Lound Gravel Pits or Sutton and Lound Gravel Pits, is a wetland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) situated north-west of the town of Retford in the Bassetlaw district of north Nottinghamshire.
Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area is a regional park on the border of Pleasanton and Livermore, California, that is part of the East Bay Regional Parks (EBRP) system. Its lake, once a gravel pit, has a sandy beach and is used for swimming, fishing, and recreational boating.
The Playhouse, 13 W. 10th St., will produce two mainstage shows and a youtheatre show and host a stop on the national tour of a live-singing parody of the cult-classic Disney film "Hocus Pocus ...
Glen Lake Rotary Park, formerly the East Gallatin Recreation Area, is an 83-acre recreation area in Bozeman, Montana, United States. [1] The lake was originally a water filled old gravel pit. The conversion of the gravel pit and adjacent old city landfill into a recreation area was awarded a national Take Pride in America award.