More obvious here than in Lime Kiln Close is the recent history of removal, the negative space, both an erasure and a revelation. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is a good variety of butterflies in the area including brimstone, orange tip, holly blue, dingy skipper, green hairstreak, wall brown, green-veined white, speckled wood, comma, small tortoiseshell, common blue, marbled white and chalk hill blue.

People playing soccer (indistinct yelling, hollow thwacks, whistle) somewhere on one side of the trees; rush of the road on the other. The Vanesids, Orange Tip, Ringlets and the whites are highest in S1 the hedge lined track up to the main reserve. Rounding the corner of the entrance to this much larger pit is like reaching into Mary Poppins’ handbag and discovering the footprint of a medieval castle inside.Unlike most of Yorkshire the skippers did see a significant improvement, The whites other than Large did well.

After church one Sunday I go looking for an entrance, a place to stash my bike, a wooden gate and descending steps into the green. The Cambridgeshire Geological Society have detailed information about East Pit, including a downloadable PDF. Ruth is working once more very close with the father of her Katie, Nelson, and is still hoping for a happy-end. Use the car park on the old railway line and walk 300m north east along the line – the nature reserve is entered through a kissing gate on your left. I find and follow every fork in the web, through open grassy clearings and close corners, past other sets of stairs leading in from the above-ground world.

Management has concentrated on keeping the grassland in good condition, with autumn and winter grazing by Hebridean sheep and Exmoor ponies helping keep some of the rough competitive grasses in check, allowing finer grasses and flowering plants to thrive. Switchbacks lead me to two old kilns—shadowy rings of brick sunk into the ground and green with life, nearly erased. A final scramble brings me up to the fence, the edge of the reserve, and in the fence is a narrow gap filled with light. Standing within the pit, you are surrounded by steep cliffs of chalk that glow in the late afternoon sun.

Immediately next door is a housing development construction site, announced on the fence banners as “Chalk Glade” and as yet only an empty white pit. By car – There a small amount of roadside parking near the site, we would recommend arriving by bus, bike or on foot.It was very well put together - a weaving together of the main characters’ personalities and personal affairs, the Norfolk location, issues of homelessness/sleeping rough, local history, archeology, police work and mystery.