This is Petherton Road in #Islington. It has a nice patch running down the middle of it. That green patch used to be an open stretch of the #NewRiver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(London)

#London / #History

"That's a very familiar buried metal sign! But why is the marker of the #NewRiver Company by one of the #HampsteadHeath ponds?" [Googles] "… because they once owned these #reservoirs! You learn a new thing every day 🤓"
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5ae1b062-8e95-4304-a7de-b80cba97fe7e

HTs #history #hampstead #LondonsRivers #photography #London #water

@RHH Along the #NewRiver in #SouthwesternVirginia I've noticed colleges, public broadcasting and other media outlets are still invested in the "other three" big social media outlets, and may have been taken by surprise by the November migration, an awkward time in a semester. Any computer student interest in Mastodon servers yet in #WestVirginia? Student organizations, political or journalistic, might pick up the thread from there. I assume servers are in more urban #ArtsAndTechnology zones.

#Frozen footsteps
#Walking a little of the #NewRiver as a quieter 'long cut' when tracking the Victoria line to Walthamstow as part of a new project

HTs #mud #photography #London

A cold morning on the New River at Stanstead St Margarets.
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#lifesbetterbywater #britishwaterways #waterreflections #riverside #riversideviews #winterinhertfordshire #winterinherts #hertfordshire #herts #leevalley #hertfordshirelife #hertslife #hertslive #happeninginherts #hertscountryside #igersherts #gogreeninherts #visitherts #leevalleypark #loveleevalley #easthertsblogger #eastherts #easthertfordshire #newriver #newriverpath

Test: Do the #NewRiver, #NewRiverValley (#NRV") or only #NewRiverGorge -- with National Park status -- get much mention on Mastadon?

Hearing folk singers and Bluegrass bands up North sing about "Riding on that New River Train" (catchy tune) I pictured a new train that ran along some River.

Did not realize my mistake until 2007, when I moved to Southwestern #Virginia and discovered I was in the New River Valley, and living in #RadfordVa, "the New River City."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(Kanawha_River_tributary)

Fall sunset on the #BlueRidge. This spot is close to the divide between the #Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico watersheds, in the #NewRiver watershed.

@jcrab just learning about hashtags and browsing around the Mastodoniverse, with #hiking and #Virginia as two of my hashtags... looks like you got to a mountain I haven't even heard of... have lived three and a half hours farther Southwest and I'm a very light hiker, usually 3 mile snippets in the recreation areas along the Blue Ridge Parkway or the New River.
Let's try that again.. #BlueRidgeParkway #NewRiver #Va

@madamscientist I haven't tried posting a photograph yet, so while I am exploring hashtag use in this new system you have inspired me: Another #fall #Virginia brownscape, from #Radford on the #NewRiver

A little geological history.

The Appalachian mountains where most US coal deposits are found are part of an ancient mountain range that was originally part of Pangea, and whose remants are now found in Morocco (part of the Atlas range believe), Spain, England, Wales, and Scotland, France, Germany, and wherever Silesia and/or Galecia are now found, Czechia and Slovakia, perhaps Poland, AFAIR.

And there's coal found along most of those regions also, for the same reasons it's found in the US: ancient forests, possibly swamps, with high productivity and for reasons still not entirely clear, little decomposition of the fallen timber (the lignan hypothesis still has currency). The countries in which these mountains and coal deposits are found is where you'll find most of the first industrialised countries as well.

And when I say ancient I mean ancient. Literally older than dirt, as the ranges formed from 300 to 400 mya, before life had colonised land, which means before there was an accumulation of plant material on land, let alone decomposers and burrowing animals such as worms which are key in soil formation.

Odder yet: there's a river which flows through the Appalachians which is thought to be older than the mountain range itself.

The river is of course named New.

#Geology #Appalachians #Pangea #Coal #NewRiver