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The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [1] is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [3] [4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet.It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology - Tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic.
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". [1] It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels, England, which dates from the Neolithic age. [2]
Maud Heath's Causeway crossing the River Avon flood plain at Kellaways. Maud Heath's Causeway is a pathway dating from the 15th century in rural Wiltshire, England.On both sides of its crossing of the River Avon, just west of Kellaways, the path rises above the floodplain on sixty-four brick arches (built 1812, largely reconstructed in the 20th century) [1] alongside an undistinguished country ...
Holy Island (1866). The modern causeway connects to the west end of the island. The island of Lindisfarne is located along the northeast coast of England, close to the border with Scotland. It measures 3.0 miles (4.8 km) from east to west and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from north to south, and comprises approximately 1,000 acres (400 hectares) at high ...
Osea Island (Old English: Ōsgȳþes īeg, "Osyth's island"), formerly also Osey, [1] is an inhabited island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex, East England.It is approximately 380 acres (150 hectares) in size and is connected to the north bank of the river by a causeway that is covered at high water.
The Devil's Causeway is a Roman road in Northumberland, in North East England. It branches off Dere Street north of Corbridge and can be traced through Northumberland for about 55 miles (89 km) north to Berwick-upon-Tweed .
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest of Avebury.. Enclosing an area of 21 acres (8.5 ha), it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Brita