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From: "Margaret Holmes" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] : Cheshire KETTLE HOLES
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:44:03 +0100
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There are also in the North West in Cheshire and Lancashire Cloughs and
Houghs which sound similar to me. I do not know if the geological formation
is the same. In the Rainow area there is Hough Hole and Wildboarclough on
the Cheshire Derbyshire borders. Do you know if these are glacial formations
Ricky? These old names are being lost under the concrete of modern
developments and the craze for renaming things to sound more upmarket when
all they are doing is losing our grandchildren's heritage. An example in
Sussex where I now live is the renaming of a pub. It was called Ball's Hut
after an old downland shepherd whose small dwelling used to sell ale to the
locals. It is now the "Fontwell Arms." Nuff said. Margaret
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Subject: [CHS] : Cheshire KETTLE HOLES


> Hi Listers,
> You may not think this is anything to do with Genealogy, and you would
> be right; but it does have to do with Place Names in Cheshire..
>
> Kettle Holes are formed by huge blocks of ice that are separated from a
> glacier when the glacial ice sheet retreats. If conditions are right, the
> isolated blocks of ice then become partially buried in meltwater
> sediments. When the
> ice blocks eventually melt they leave behind holes or depressions that
> fill
> with water to become Kettle Hole Lakes. The Cheshire Plain provided ideal
> conditions for this phenomena, and the result was preserved as isolated
> small
> ponds, lakes, or deep water filled depressions in boggy areas of the low
> lying
> plain. Other signs of the glacier are found on rocky outcrops where its
> power
> has scored the surface in a North-South direction. On the Wirral coast
> rocks
> are evident that have been carried down from Scotland over 200 miles
> away.
> Words used to describe the smaller Kettle Holes are Pond, Hole and
> Hollow;
> these would usually be still water. Mere could mean Pond or Lake, a large
> body of water. Modern farming methods have filled in many of the smaller
> Kettle
> Holes. No more Frog spawn and "Taddy" expeditions to Holm Lane pond for
> me.
> There are many Meres on the Cheshire maps, but the Hollows are only
> remembered
> by the Lanes which ran by them.
>
> Ricky Cooper.
>
>
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