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Cold Snap for the UK
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19-10-2003, 06:12 PM
martin
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Cold Snap for the UK
On 19 Oct 2003 17:00:14 GMT,
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,
martin wrote:
Yes the climate has been changing but the immense tree clearance and
land drainage took place mainly during the last couple of hundred years
(ish) to my knowledge.
The downs and the northern moors were not cleared of trees in modern
times. The moors were cleared during prehistoric times, the downs in
the middle ages
No, they were cleared much earlier than that. It was the change from
arable to pastoral use that happened in the middle ages.
The Kentish downs were cleared of trees by iron makers looking for
fuel.
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Martin
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