Site of Special Scientific Interest (c. 8,000 B.C.)

Post date: Sep 05, 2012 9:32:47 AM

Wateringbury has a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Pear Orchards by Love Lane, where a rock called tufa has been created since the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. Geologists from Imperial College, London have studied the deposits and their results are to be found in the Transactions of of the Royal Society of London in a paper by M.P. Kerney and others 'Molluscan and Plant Biostratigraphy'. More details than in this note are to be found in the Society's publications History of Wateringbury to 1086 and A Walk around Wateringbury.