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• Few good building stones occur locally, so older buildings are often built of wood and brick, with thatched roofs. But the Thames Valley is a good source of sand and gravel, used in concrete for roads and buildings.
• Within sight of the Wittenham Clumps, at the Culham Research Centre, international scientists have been researching a new and safe form of renewable energy produced by nuclear fusion.
• Thames Water are proposing to build a giant reservoir at a site to the west of Abingdon, which will store excess water from the Thames in winter and use it to maintain flow in summer months. Thames Water website - proposed reservoir
• The Environment Agency website can tell you which areas of your neighbourhood are prone to flooding.
• The Northmoor Trust maintains a research programme investigating which types of broadleaf trees will be most adaptable to a changing UK climate. The Trust offices were built with local timber.

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