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Time to quit the lilo You've passed Colman's factory and the football ground and your lilo is now bobbing under the railway swing bridge. The River Wensum is really is widening out now as it is joined from the right by the Yare. Maybe it's time to make for the bank at Whitlingham Park before you get swamped by passing pleasure craft. The lakes next to the river here have been formed by extracting the river gravel from below the marshes, right down to the level of the chalk. |
Invisible below the Alluvial deposits of the valley floor near the bottom of
Harvey Lane are the remains of an older Glacial valley cut into the chalk by a thick tongue of ice when sea level was
lower. You did right to get off your lilo here; meanwhile the Yare still has another 35 km and at least
12 hours to travel before it finally reaches the sea.
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