{"id":4455,"date":"2015-12-11T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:18:26","slug":"knapp-and-papermill-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/knapp-and-papermill-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Knapp and Papermill Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leigh Brook, Knapp and Papermill Nature Reserve<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview
\n<\/b> The Leigh Brook flows through the centre of a steep sided gorge in the Knapp and Papermill Nature Reserve. From its source to the south the brook follows relatively low ground, but here it suddenly enters the high ground formed by the hard Silurian rocks before emerging onto the Severn Plain. The valley through the hills is narrow and meanders on a scale fitting a much larger river.<\/p>\n

It is believed that before the Ice Age, and before the soft rocks in the surrounding countryside were so greatly eroded away, a large river flowed along this course but on a wide plain at an altitude close to that of the present hill peaks. Some evidence for this rests in the small patches of river gravels found high on the adjacent hills.<\/p>\n

During the Anglian Ice Age (500,000 years ago) this area was at the edge of a large ice sheet. As this ice melted, large quantities of melt water gushed down the river and cut a valley through the Silurian rocks to create the gorgewe see today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Location
\n<\/b>Alfrick, Worcestershire; Grid Reference: SO 7491 5170<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>Open along public rights of way<\/p>\n

Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Quaternary<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong>
\nFluvial processes
\nClassic riffle and pool morphology
\nGravel bars and mid-channel islands
\nThe brook is one of a rare number of watercourses that cross the Malvern Hills watershed
\nGeomorphology
\nNature Reserve (Worcestershire Wildlife Trust<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Section 9 of the Geopark Way<\/a> trail
\nAlfrick and the Suckley Hills\u2019 geology and landscape trail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Leigh Brook, Knapp and Papermill Nature Reserve<\/p>\n

Geological overview The Leigh Brook flows through the centre of a steep sided gorge in the Knapp and Papermill Nature Reserve. From its source to the south the brook follows relatively low ground, but here it suddenly enters the high ground formed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}