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Dew pond - Wikipedia
A dew pond is an artificial pond usually sited on the top of a hill, intended for watering livestock. Dew ponds are used in areas where a natural supply of ...
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Capturing the Clouds: The History of Britain's Ancient Dew Ponds
These artificial ponds were primarily constructed to provide water for livestock in areas where natural water sources were scarce, such as on high, chalky ...
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Creating a Dew Pond - Butser Ancient Farm
So, what's a dew pond? Well, they are small water reservoirs but, unlike conventional dams, they don't necessarily have a 'catchment'. A ...
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www.butserancientfarm.co.uk
dew-pond
dew-pond (ˈdjuːpɒnd) [dew n.] A shallow pond, usually of artificial construction, occurring on downs where there is no adequate water-supply from springs or surface-drainage. These ponds were originally thought to be fed by the condensation of water from the atmosphere, but it is now generally thoug...
Oxford English Dictionary
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Dew Ponds | Nature
THE legend that dew has anything particular to do with dew ponds seems to die very hard. The essence of a dew pond surely is that it should be watertight, ...
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Science: Dew Ponds | TIME
On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built “dew ponds” which stayed full of ...
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Dew pond
A dew pond is an artificial pond usually sited on the top of a hill, intended for watering livestock. Dew ponds are used in areas where a natural supply of surface water may not be readily available. The name dew pond (sometimes cloud pond or mist pond) is first found in the Journal of the Royal Agr...
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Dew-Ponds—History, Observation, and Experiment | Nature
A dew-pond as “one situated on the higher grounds, generally on the chalk downs of the south of England, which retains by some means or other a supply of water.
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Dew ponds - Brighton & Hove City Council
Dew ponds are small, round ponds sited in hollows, made by digging a pit and lining it with clay. They're found in a few dry, hilly places, like the South ...
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
Some Dew-Ponds in Dorset.
Of Catch-ponds there are numerous examples to be found. These are as a rule kept filled by the surface water from the roads and gullies close by.
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DEW POND Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
a shallow artificial pond on the English downs filled and kept up chiefly by the condensation of dew and mist and used to provide water for cattle.
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The Dew Pond | Friends of Lancing Ring - WordPress.com
Dew ponds are man-made ponds, built to hold drinking water for the hundreds of sheep that once grazed the Downs as well as being significant landscape features.
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mist
▪ I. mist, n.1 (mɪst) Forms: 1– mist; also 3 mijst, 3–6 myste, 4–7 myst, miste, (5 meyst). [OE. mist str. masc. = MLG. (LG.), MDu. (Du.) mist, Icel. mistur (genit. misturs) neut. (Norw., Sw. mist):—OTeut. *mihstoz-, f. mī̆g-:—pre-Teut. *migh-, meigh-, as in Gr. ὀµίχλη, OSl. mĭgla, Skr. mih and mēgha...
Oxford English Dictionary
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