After More Than 200 Years Tides Flood Back Across Grazing Land
Western Morning News, The › July 11, 2011
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An area of marshland reclaimed from a tidal estuary two centuries ago has been returned to saltmarsh following the completion of a Pounds 300,000 project to install a specially-designed tide gate.
South Efford Marsh on the Avon estuary at Aveton Gifford, near Kingsbridge, has been agricultural grazing land since the 18th century when a huge wall and earth bank was constructed to hold back the tides.See the full content of this document
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After More Than 200 Years Tides Flood Back Across Grazing Land
But now the Environment Agency, under its Regional Habitat Creation Programme, has installed and opened a set of gates it designed speci...
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