Rivers

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Half term is upon us and I decided, with all intents and purposes to give school a break for a week at least. So i decided to do a bike ride in the area that I am staying whilst my friends were at work. However, as you can understand Geography is everywhere and it hides round corners ready to jump out whenever it can. So i tried to go on straight roads to give geography no place to hide. But would you believe it. I got sucked in. Geography got me! Oh dear.

Here is my route. You can Zoom in to give superb detail.

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Lets look at the Geography

1) Rivers

Meon at Soberton Heath

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Look at Ordanance Survey Maps

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4 merits for codeword - meonmania!

[|River Meon] - wikipedia information

The River Meon
The Meon rises from springs near to South Farm, Small Down near East Meon. Beyond the farm, you go over a bridge crossing a duck pond but then a hedge hides the water. Round the corner there are two cottages, but where has the river gone? Behind the cottages is a deep dell; looking down we see a couple of planks by a tiny spring; this is the source of the Meon. It runs due north initially to East Meon and in wet weather it becomes a force to be reckoned with, liable to flood up the roads. Years ago by the time it got to the village, two mills had already draw power from it. After the village the Meon swings west and runs through West Meon. By the time it reaches Warnford where its waters support the famous cress beds, it is running south, never far away from the main road. The centre of the tiny low-lying village of Exton lies off the A32. The Shoe Inn is built on raised foundations to avoid the Meon floodwaters; the rest of Exton is not so fortunate. In a joining Corhampton, the river rushes under the road by the old water mill as the chaming old tower of Church looks on. The A32 and the remains of the old single track Mid Hants railway run on each side of the low lying Meon through Droxford and Soberton. A substantial head of water is formed at Wickham that still roars through the Cheasapeake Mill. Recently restored, the mill was built from the timbers of an American ship of the same name. River water does not loose its strength when it drives a mill, its energy can be used time and time aagain. In the past there have been as many as twelve mills on the Meon.