What is recorded here
Stow Bedon Fuel Allotment, part of Stow Bedon Common, is home to over 30 natural ponds known as pingos, created over 12,000 years ago by ground-ice thawing during the last Ice Age, leaving behing shallow depressions which filled with water.
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- Freshwater Habitats Trust
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- Katy Walters, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- David Pashley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Adrian S Pye, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Simon Leatherdale, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Keith Evans, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bob Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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