The largely stone-free glacial sand of the heath is highly free-draining, and so extensive irrigation is required in the growing season.

Otherwise these rock layers are blanketed by a thick layer of glacial sand and gravel.

In the valley, there are also strips of alluvium and patches of glacial sand and gravel.

Surrounding the town is deposits of boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel can be found to the north-west.

Called "The Farm Beneath the Sand," this site lay buried under glacial sands for six centuries.

The crumbling cliffs at the coast are of glacial sands and gravels with some chalk exposures.

The local geology is mostly glacial clay, as well as glacial sands and gravel.

The soil is a mixture of glacial sand with clay nodules.

The coastal cliffs at Covehithe are formed of glacial sands and other deposits.

The bare floorboards were covered with a black, glacial sand that was gritty underfoot.