MARTLESHAM HEATH SUFFOLK
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Category: Herpetofauna Native to the UK
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Topic: MARTLESHAM HEATH SUFFOLK
Posted By: AGILIS
Subject: MARTLESHAM HEATH SUFFOLK
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2008 at 3:12am
    hi here is the once beautiful Martlesham heath today near Ipswich the jewel of east anglia and how it was in the 1970s on the os map but now just another commercial industrial park once home to adders and all the regional reptiles and fauna alas no more but there are some bits of heath left in the form of roundabouts on the A12 ANY ONE ELSE HAD THEIR LOCAL HEATHS STUFFED UP? KEITH------------- LOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID |
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Posted By: Suzi
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2008 at 11:59am
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As a sweeping generalisation I would say any heaths that were owned by an estate or the MOD have a good chance of still being around, otherwise most likely built on. Sadly the term 'wasteland' which was how they were known reflects the attitude towards them. ------------- Suz |
Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2008 at 12:17pm
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YES SUZI THE WORD WASTELAND USED FOR HEATHLAND JUST ABOUT FREAKS ME OUT AND THEY STILL CONSIDER IT SO KEITH
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