2005

TQ0298 : River Chess watercress beds

taken 19 years ago, near to Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England

River Chess watercress beds
River Chess watercress beds
From the Chess Valley Walk official guide: "The clean warm waters of the Chess create ideal growing conditions for watercress, once a common crop along the river but now grown only here at Sarratt. Water from the Chess is diverted into a series of growing compartments - 'beds'. The cress takes root in the shallow beds, taking minerals from the calcium rich water. The flow is added to by spring water from deep in the aquifer which is at a constant temperature - about 10ºC. In years when the air temperature remains high enough the warm water allows cultivation right through the winter."

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Category: Watercress beds
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · River Chess [10] · Watercress Beds [8] · Cress Beds [5] · Chess Valley Walk [2] ·
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TQ0298, 63 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Cathy Cox   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 16 October, 2005   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 17 October, 2005
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 029 989 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:40.7669N 0:30.7869W
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