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Finchampstead Ridge-3 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-3 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-3 viewsThe Prince ignored their advice and arranged for Catherine's coach to ride along the Ridges, where the bride-to-be raised her veil for her future husband. As a result their marriage was said to be cursed, and Arthur died shortly the wedding. A plaque in Longwater Lane commemorates these events.
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Finchampstead Ridge-5 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-5 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-6 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-7 viewsFinchampstead Ridges is a tranquil common which was shaped during the Ice Age. It is characterised by its very acidic soils which were carried from further north, creating the ideal environment for heather and bracken and trees.
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Finchampstead Ridge-3 viewsLegend tells that Prince Arthur, son of King Henry VII was hunting on the Ridges, when he heard of the arrival in England of his fiancée, Catherine of Aragon.
His party rode out to meet her, but ran across a party of Spaniards who warned the Prince that he should not look upon his bride until after they were married.
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Finchampstead Ridge-6 viewsFinchampstead Ridges and the surrounding area was once part of a royal hunting forest, a well-stocked "larder" of deer and wild boar.
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Finchampstead Ridge-7 viewsSixty acres of this ridge are owned and preserved by the National Trust.
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Finchampstead Ridge-5 viewsHeather once carpeted the hills around the Ridges. But trees such as birch and pine, which have been attracted to the area's acidic soils, have destroyed some of these heather habitats.
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