Sentence examples for area of chalk from inspiring English sources

The district, a rural area of chalk uplands, is where the most westerly extensions of the North Downs, Weald, and South Downs generally merge.

Twyford Down is an area of chalk downland lying directly to the southeast of Winchester, Hampshire, England.

And though Letraset gave more vowels than consonants on each sheet, we always ran out of As; we drew a lot of maps and country names are full of them.As for tinted areas in the artwork (such as the areas of chalk and clay in the diagram above), they were a combination of adhesive-backed sheets of pre-printed dots and lines, and a plastic mask on film (the blue areas on the artwork).

Groundwater levels in southern England, particularly in areas of chalk, are already exceptionally high after prolonged periods of heavy rain.

Large areas of chalk grassland in north-western Europe have been lost as a result of changes in land use, and the remaining areas have become increasingly fragmented.

Separated from the Lincoln Edge by a clay lowland are the Wolds, an area of rolling chalk hills.

The Palestinian village of Battir and its "cultural landscape" – currently under threat from the Israeli separation barrier – was added to the list on Friday, while the caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin in Israel, an area of vast chalk caves in the Judean lowlands, gained world heritage status on Sunday.

The building of the M3 across Twyford Down, a small area of ancient chalk downland, was controversial at the time, but the removal of the Winchester Bypass which ran to the west of St Catherine's Hill close to the navigation and its conversion back to grassland has brought tranquility back to the valley.

There are two large aquifers in the area, one consisting of chalk, to the south of the river valley, and the other the Lower Greensand Group, underlying the whole of the river.

One of the largest areas of unimproved chalk grassland in the county, it supports many rare flowers and butterflies.

Roe deer, sheep and goats graze on the areas of recreated chalk grassland, throughout which are dotted bee orchids, greater butterfly orchids and abundant twayblade.