Circles of life
Mar 03, 2021
3 minutes
MUCH mystique and intrigue surrounds the history of dew ponds, in that these appealing, saucer-shaped oases were once thought—rather romantically and fancifully —to be able to glean water from the air and replenish themselves by magic. Rudyard Kipling summed it up perfectly in his poem Sussex, of 1902, which includes the lines:
We have no waters to delight Our broad and brookless vales—Only the dewpond on the height Unfed, that never fails.
Dew, cloud, mist and fog ponds—also known as sheep or ‘ship’ ponds in the local dialect—have
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