Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Goring Gap is a British geological feature located on the River Thames approximately 8 miles upstream from Reading.Half a million years ago the River Thames flowed on its existing course through Oxfordshire, but then turned northeast to flow through Bedfordshire before eventually reaching the North Sea in East Anglia near Ipswich. During the last ice age the ice sheet blocked its exit to the sea the amounts of melt water entering the Thames caused it to pond up into a lake that eventually cut a new route through the chalk at the site of the Goring Gap. The newly formed route flowed through Berkshire and present day Hertfordshire before finally reaching the North Sea in Essex .Today, the Goring Gap constricts the River Thames narrowing the otherwise broad river valley. Steep hills rise southwards to Lardon Chase, the nearest section of the Berkshire Downs while the Chiltern Hills rise to the north. The twin villages of Goring and Streatley straddle the River Thames at the Goring Gap.The Goring Gap represents an important communications and transportation corridor accommodating a major road connecting Reading to Oxford along with the principal railway line west from London (Paddington)."@en }
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- Goring_Gap abstract "The Goring Gap is a British geological feature located on the River Thames approximately 8 miles upstream from Reading.Half a million years ago the River Thames flowed on its existing course through Oxfordshire, but then turned northeast to flow through Bedfordshire before eventually reaching the North Sea in East Anglia near Ipswich. During the last ice age the ice sheet blocked its exit to the sea the amounts of melt water entering the Thames caused it to pond up into a lake that eventually cut a new route through the chalk at the site of the Goring Gap. The newly formed route flowed through Berkshire and present day Hertfordshire before finally reaching the North Sea in Essex .Today, the Goring Gap constricts the River Thames narrowing the otherwise broad river valley. Steep hills rise southwards to Lardon Chase, the nearest section of the Berkshire Downs while the Chiltern Hills rise to the north. The twin villages of Goring and Streatley straddle the River Thames at the Goring Gap.The Goring Gap represents an important communications and transportation corridor accommodating a major road connecting Reading to Oxford along with the principal railway line west from London (Paddington).".
- Q5586495 abstract "The Goring Gap is a British geological feature located on the River Thames approximately 8 miles upstream from Reading.Half a million years ago the River Thames flowed on its existing course through Oxfordshire, but then turned northeast to flow through Bedfordshire before eventually reaching the North Sea in East Anglia near Ipswich. During the last ice age the ice sheet blocked its exit to the sea the amounts of melt water entering the Thames caused it to pond up into a lake that eventually cut a new route through the chalk at the site of the Goring Gap. The newly formed route flowed through Berkshire and present day Hertfordshire before finally reaching the North Sea in Essex .Today, the Goring Gap constricts the River Thames narrowing the otherwise broad river valley. Steep hills rise southwards to Lardon Chase, the nearest section of the Berkshire Downs while the Chiltern Hills rise to the north. The twin villages of Goring and Streatley straddle the River Thames at the Goring Gap.The Goring Gap represents an important communications and transportation corridor accommodating a major road connecting Reading to Oxford along with the principal railway line west from London (Paddington).".