Hornchurch Cutting
English Geological Site
About
Hornchurch Cutting is a 0.8-hectare (2.0-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering. It is also a Geological Conservation Review site.
It is at the southern edge of the Anglian ice sheet 450,000 years ago, the most extreme ice age during the Pleistocene ice ages of the last 2.58 million years. (Technically, the most southerly point reached by an ice sheet during the Quaternary was The Dell, a few metres south of St Andrew's Church.) It is the type site for Hornchurch Till, boulder clay laid down by the ice sheet in the Ingrebourne Valley.
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London Borough of Havering
London borough in United Kingdom
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Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
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Hornchurch Urban District
Former local government area in the UK
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Upminster Windmill
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Towers Cinema
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Langtons
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