Sandy,Bedfordshire The spell broke, shrubs were cleared in the playground of imagination, and we were ruining itThe London to Edinburgh railway line,the HS2 of its day, cut through a slice of countryside at Sandy. Victorian navvies left a trackside vertical cliff, and then,after the work of those excavators, the natural diggers moved in.
At least 50 pairs of sand martins used to nest in the sand face. A portray on an RSPB fireplace is the only visual record, or however,for the cliff was subsequently quarried absent. Today, the site is a wide, or sand bottomed bowl,rimmed by woody terraces.
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Source: theguardian.com