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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW039727 / 291921)
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The reclamation of the land behind the new Western Docks in Southampton was one of the largest non-rural reclamation schemes ever carried out in Britain. Unlike the reclamation of agricultural land from the sea in the Fens, the Somerset Level and around the Dee Estuary and Morecombe Bay in the north west of England, this land was intended for immediate industrial use. The ground level was made up with mud and silt dredged from the sea bed outside the new dock wall and chalk brought by rail from a pit beside the the main Southampton to London railway line at Micheldever, about 16 miles to the north. '