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This site is named after South Farm, a largish tract of bare land in
north Wilts and for which I was the administrative farmer for a little
over ten years. The area is classified as one of outstanding natural
beauty, but that designation soon gets allocated to any site with few
buildings and some hills. However there are some spectacular features
on, and many more to the north of, South Farm, as
this photograph shows. It almost looks as if a dragon is stalking
over the land but in fact this is the effect of a low sun over some
coombes or valleys. A geologist friend thought that the valleys were
formed much later than the main undulating land; possibly the chalk
hills had collapsed in a time of extreme wetness or seismic activity
- or both.
The next picture shows where South farm is in relation to these coombes. |
