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The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:35, 14 March 2011: 1,356 × 1,226 (1,007 KB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of the Somerset Levels, UK (and surrounding area) with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map project
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Bearley Brook; Black Ditch; Cannington Brook; Chinnock Water; Cobb's Cross Stream; Decoy Rhine; Eighteen Foot Rhine; Hamp Brook; Horsey Pill; King's Sedgemoor Drain
Around 70% of deep peat in the Somerset Levels and Moors is likely to be losing carbon due to intensive livestock grazing, cultivation and direct extraction. Maize cultivation has increased, and most soils under maize were damaged to the extent that rainfall is unable to penetrate the upper soil layers, resulting in silt-laden runoff.
The Somerset Levels and surrounding hills. Somerset is a rural county in southwest England with an area of 4,171 square kilometres (1,610 sq mi). It is bounded on the north-west by the Bristol Channel, on the north by Bristol and Gloucestershire, on the east by Wiltshire, on the south-east by Dorset, and on the south west and west by Devon.
This category groups together articles relating to the Somerset Levels, England. Pages in category "Somerset Levels" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
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