1920s Widening of the Chalk Cutting

The widening of the Chalk Hill Cutting (at Puddle Hill) in the 1920s.

An extract from the Houghton Regis BlogSpot:

"Puddle Hill was just that, a hill, until the need to travel through it, rather than over it, was deemed a necessity.  The Beaker People settled there, and farmed the land to the west of the modern cutting. In those days you could walk across from Houghton to Seywell. The cutting was gradually reduced and now is a major route on the A5 between Dunstable and Milton Keynes." 

The Beakers were a group of people living in Central Europe whose ancestors had previously migrated from the Eurasian Steppe. This group continued to migrate west and finally arrived in Britain around 4,400 years ago.

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