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Sugarloaf ?

If you go into an Indian grocer's and ask for 'Gur', you'll get a bag of small brown lumps of partially refined sugar. They're the shape of that hill and that is how sugar was bought in England in the past. The Ordnance Survey has it as 'Brown Lowe' but sugarloaf is the well-used local name.

The local tradition is that it's of prehistoric human manufacture. It's a glacial hill - a drumlin - and is at the centre of four local alleged stone rows. The largest row is the one nearest to the hill. The County Archaeology Unit suppose it to be a coal pit spoil hill - an absurd conclusion. At the base of the hill is a perennial spring and a small reedy pond with a usually resident heron.

Highly visitable - it's not threatened in any way.


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14th March 2005ce
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