Welcome to Chalk East

Chalk East is a Geo-East partnership project. It is raising awareness of the importance of Chalk geodiversity to the landscape and economy of the East of England region, including its links with wildlife. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Natural England.

·         The Chalk provides most of the Regions' water supply

·         It has been quarried and tunnelled for centuries to produce lime for building and farming

·         Chalk grassland and chalk streams have a special, rich biodiversity

·         The Chalk landscape has been home to human settlement and farming since Neolithic times

·         Chalk landscape has a special range of landform features such as dry valleys and disappearing streams

·         Chalk fossils tell the story of life in the Cretaceous seas over 65 million years ago

·         Chalk is part of our folk art through turf-cut figures and chalk carvings

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