Chalk

Connected Sites: 9

Definition

WHS with a significant presence of chalk, a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.

Contributor

Proposed by Els Slots

Map

Connected Sites

  • Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.38
    135
    18

    The Neolithic Flint Mines of Spiennes occupy two chalk plateaux (OUV statement)
  • Plitvice Lakes
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.12
    291
    11

    waters flowing over the limestone and chalk ...the presence of carbonate rocks, including both limestone and chalk from the Mesozoic Era
  • Champagne
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.16
    221
    9

    on cool, chalky land, the Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars form a very specific agro-industrial landscape (OUV statement)
  • Stonehenge and Avebury
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.74
    430
    18

    Silbury Hill is the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. Built around 2400 BC, it stands 39.5 m high and comprises half a million tonnes of chalk. (OUV statement)
  • Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.25
    60
    9

    Maresha–Bet Guvrin is an eminent example of traditional use of chalk subsurface strata (OUV statement)
  • Møns Klint
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.77
    41
    2

    the property includes chalk cliffs (OUV statement)
  • Val d'Orcia
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.23
    199
    11

    The landscape's distinctive aesthetics, flat chalk plains out of which rise almost conical hills with fortified settlements on top (OUV statement)
  • Stevns Klint
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.40
    154
    7

    "Stevns Klint, known as the Cliffs of Stevns in English, is a white chalk cliff" (wiki)
  • Dorset and East Devon Coast
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.33
    202
    14

    Chalk is a significant feature of the Dorset and East Devon Coast e.g, the Old Harry Rocks. The Nomination file contains 51 references to Chalk.