Useful Lessons

[Panmure]

Oh, you mean the bit before they take the five mintue walk to Hadrian's wall on their way to Nottingham.

 

[Softus]

Has anybody actually ever seen an oxbow lake? Place, date and time folks...

Place - at home.
Date - today.
Time - now.

Anyone can have a go: http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=34949613&x=-90470934&z=11&l=0&m=a

 

[Steve]

theres a few in doncaster on the river don.

Link one

never seen them though. i believe this one is a double ox-bow. Right behind the sewage works.


Link two


About half a mile further south, theres a few near HMP doncatras. (though i suspect these are, in fact, parts of the flod plain below the water table - the river here has big levees at the sides, and theres quite a wide flood plain)

 

[Steve]

i just got addicted to wikimapia - its brilliant! much better aerial photos than multimap.

 

[ninebob]

i just got addicted to wikimapia - its brilliant! much better aerial photos than multimap.

Try Google Earth, on which wikimapia appears to be based.