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Matt Gaw is
a writer and
journalist who
works with
Su olk Wildlife
Trust
Who wouldn’t
want to be here?
Su olk’s River
Stour is greatly
changed, but it’s
still beautiful
v-shaped valleys, or follows paths Water advanced, rivers were modified.
gouged by long-gone glaciers. Later gathers as Water was impounded for mills,
the streams converge to create a rain, dew or abstracted for farming, drinking and
river, which meanders through the snowmelt industry. The channels were
landscape. The flow forms shingle straightened and deepened for
bars and sparkling braids, chuckling still possess fully-functioning natural transport and drainage. The
over ri es as it pulses towards the processes. Over the centuries, as relationship between the water and
sea over clay, sand, gravel and rock development and agriculture the floodplains fractured.
– shaping the land as it goes, cutting,
carrying and depositing silt. It’s hard to imagine how the Lark
used to look. In prehistoric times it
Few rivers in England and Wales was part of a delta, a wild landscape
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