Stairway to Heaven? Nearly! This is no ordinary stairway. This is a M & S (masochistic) stairway. It climbs 60 metres or 200 feet from Headley Lane to Juniper Hill Wood and White Hill, North Downs, Surrey, England.
Commentary.
Opposite the footpath to Juniper Top, on the
back-slope of Box Hill, there is this considerable flight of steps.
It climbs steeply up to Juniper Woodland and White Down
from Headley Lane near the village of Mickleham.
It is a veritable ecological tunnel, overarched by
Chalk-loving flora including:
Yew, Wild Clematis, Beech and, predictably, Juniper.
As Sir David Attenborough recently reminded us,
in his television series, “The Wild Isles,”
85% of the Chalk ecosystem, in the world,
is to be found here in the British Isles.
So, we must keep it as special as it is beautiful!
Stairway to Heaven? Nearly! This is no ordinary stairway. This is a M & S (masochistic) stairway. It climbs 60 metres or 200 feet from Headley Lane to Juniper Hill Wood and White Hill, North Downs, Surrey, England.
Commentary.
Opposite the footpath to Juniper Top, on the
back-slope of Box Hill, there is this considerable flight of steps.
It climbs steeply up to Juniper Woodland and White Down
from Headley Lane near the village of Mickleham.
It is a veritable ecological tunnel, overarched by
Chalk-loving flora including:
Yew, Wild Clematis, Beech and, predictably, Juniper.
As Sir David Attenborough recently reminded us,
in his television series, “The Wild Isles,”
85% of the Chalk ecosystem, in the world,
is to be found here in the British Isles.
So, we must keep it as special as it is beautiful!