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A low tract of moist or marshy land.

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A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

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A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

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A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.

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A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

These included historic open pastures, and land adjoining the river Swale.

Beware; a shot short of perfection will suffer the consequences of a deep swale to the left or water to the right.

The Project Area The River Swale is a spate river, thought to be one of the fastest flowing river in England.

Watch the glorious sunsets across the Swale or explore the antique shops.

Second swale with willow ready to harvest for hurdle making.

Swale house will be full of antiques shops like York House?

The town (Fauresfeld, Faveresham) owed its early importance to its situation as a port on the Swale, to the fertile country surrounding it, and to the neighbourhood of Watling Street.

A fortress, called Sheppey Castle, is said to have existed from an early period for guarding the passage of the Swale river.

The marshes extend along the Swale to Whitstable, whence stretches a low line of clay and sandstone cliffs towards the Isle of Thanet, when they become lofty and grand, extending round the Foreland southward to Pegwell Bay, The coast from Sheppey round to the South Foreland is skirted by numerous flats and sands, the most extensive of which are the Goodwin Sands off Deal.

Among the principal modern industries are paper-making, carried on on the banks of the Darent, Medway, Cray and neighbouring streams; engineering, chemical and other works along the Thames; manufactures of bricks, tiles, pottery and cement, especially by the lower Medway and the Swale.

The strait isolating Sheppey is called the Swale; it is about 3 m.

On the south, narrow branches of the Swale, formerly wider, divide the isles of Harty and Elmley from the main island, of which, however, they now practically form part.

It lies in the central plain of Yorkshire, on the river Ure near its confluence with the Swale.

Its course is generally easterly as long as it is confined by these uplands, but on debauching upon the central plain of Yorkshire it takes a southeasterly turn and flows past Ripon and Boroughbridge to form, by its union with the Swale, the river Ouse, which drains to the Humber.

The estuary of the Thames may be said to stretch from London Bridge to Sheerness in the Isle of Sheppey, which is divided from the mainland by the narrow channel (bridged at Queensbridge) of the Swale.

The marsh lands along the banks of the Thames, Medway, Stour and Swale consist chiefly of rich chalk alluvium.