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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kersey Puddingstone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Suffolk

Submitted by ermine on Wednesday, 28 September 2016  Page Views: 11695

Natural PlacesSite Name: Kersey Puddingstone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.838 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Suffolk Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bury St Edmunds  Nearest Village: Kersey Street
Map Ref: TM000441
Latitude: 52.059167N  Longitude: 0.915960E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Kersey Puddingstone
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine : Close-up of the Kersey puddingstone near the bridge over the watersplash (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone in Suffolk. This Puddingstone is by the footbridge over the brook. This is the most easterly point of the Puddingstone Trail, which now turns south-west.

Site No. 17 on the Trail. Page originally by Thorgrim

Note: Suffolk council almost remove ‘hazardous’ ancient stone by accident but this is prevented by a vigilant local resident
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Kersey Puddingstone
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine : Detail of the second puddingstone at Kersey (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kersey Puddingstone
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine : Overview of the second puddingstone at Kersey, jutting out from the pavement a couple of hundred yards away from the watersplash on the side away from the church on the left (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Kersey Puddingstone
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine : This is the overview of where this stone is, half buried in the pavement by the footbridge over the watersplash. It is on the left if you are standing on the bank overlooking the watersplash up the hill towards the church. Don't miss the other stone which is about 200 metres away on the other side of the road erupting from the pavement near some steps (Vote or comment on this photo)

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TM0044 : Kersey Watersplash by Richard Mudhar
by Richard Mudhar
©2005(licence)
TM0044 : The ford at Kersey by Marathon
by Marathon
©2014(licence)
TM0044 : Lane at Kersey by Jonathan Thacker
by Jonathan Thacker
©2022(licence)
TM0044 : Houses in Kersey by Jonathan Thacker
by Jonathan Thacker
©2022(licence)
TM0044 : No bridge here by Keith Evans
by Keith Evans
©2007(licence)

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Council trips up over ‘hazardous’ stone by davidmorgan on Monday, 26 September 2016
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The Kersey puddingstone is, give or take a few hundred thousand years, more than a million years old, and so far the residents of the Suffolk village have endured its presence without serious injury.

In the view of Suffolk council, however, the ancient lump of rock sticking out of the pavement was a dangerous trip hazard.

Thus, last week, workmen were dispatched to remove a stone that has survived the ice age, the Black Death and two world wars.

Armed with pickaxes and a notable ignorance of Suffolk geological history, they would have broken up and removed the stone, which measures about three feet by two, had it not been for the vigilance of a villager, Ray Attridge, who just managed to stop them in time. “If I had arrived home ten minutes later it would have been too late and the stone would have been broken into pieces and lost for ever,” he said.

Historians say the puddingstone — so called because it looks like a plum pudding stuffed with fruit — was probably deposited in the Pleistocene age more than a million years ago. Kersey, which dates back to the 13th century, has grown up around it.

Mr Attridge, a retired businessman who lives opposite the stone, said: “I arrived home and was opening my front door to go in when I happened to notice a group of three blokes in hi-vis jackets and hard hats. Then I saw they were about to attack the stone with a pickaxe so I went straight across and asked them what they were doing.

“They said they had been told to dig it up and remove it because it was a health and safety hazard to people walking along the pavement and that pedestrians might have to step out into the road to get round it.

“I couldn’t believe they were serious — I told them to stop and called the chairman of the parish council who immediately called the highways people and got them to leave the stone alone. We get a thousands of tourists every year and they all want to take photographs of the ford, the thatched houses, the timbered pub — and the stone.”

A spokesman for Suffolk council thanked residents for their vigilance: “While inspecting the area for reported defects and hazards, this stone was identified in error by a member of the highways team,” he said.

Source: The Times
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Re: Kersey Puddingstone by willowman1 on Saturday, 28 May 2016
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I visited Kersey on May 17th, and the stone by the footbridge isn't any kind of puddingstone. It's what is commonly called 'sparkling sandstone', where quartz grains are enhanced by silica, and the surface sparkles in sunlight. It measures 40cm x 30cm x 25ch high, with its location being TM00057044130.

The slab in the pavement outside No. 2 Ancient Houses is at TL9998244264, and actually IS conglomerate. One edge is broken, showing pebbles that have been sheared clean through, something that typifies classic Hertfordshire puddingstone. It measures 102cm x 72cm x 20cm high at the back.
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Kersey Puddingstone Street View (2nd one) by SteveDut on Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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