Gypsey (spring)
A Gypsey is a name given to intermittent springs and streams in the Yorkshire Wolds.
In Wiltshire and Dorset the same phenonoma is known as winterbournes, in Kent known as nailbournes, and as lavants in Hampshire.[1]
Description
The gipseys are streams formed from springs from the waterladen chalk that constitutes the Yorkshire wolds. The springs flow in late winter or early spring, with the water emanating through unbroken turf.[2]
See also
- Gypsey Race, named stream in the north of the Yorkshire wolds
- Chalk stream
References
- ↑ Paul F. Greenfield; Greg Oliver, eds. (2001), Riversymposium 2000: sustaining rivers - defining the new international agenda : selected proceedings of the 3rd International Riversymposium (Brisbane, Australia, 6-8 September 2000) 43 (9), IWA, p. 20
- ↑ Thomas Allen (1831), "12. Survey of Dickering Wapentake", A new and complete history of the county of York 4, I.T. Hinton, p. 96