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WhiteCliffes

Welcome to coastal area known as WhiteCliffes.

The coastal area of WhiteCliffes is an area of land that is built on sedimentary chalk deposits which is accentuated with streaks of black flint and quartz, which was layed down in the Cretaceous period. The chalk deposits are prone to erosion, which has resulted in the stunning chalk cliffs being exposed (hence the local name WhiteCliffes).

It is thought to have started to become inhabited over 10,000 years ago, flint tools, bone fragments (human and animal), shells, seeds etc dated from around that time have been found in what seem to be temporary settlements. More permanent settlements started over 6000 years ago when a hillfort or a defensive structure of some kind began being built at that time on Hoy Hill, this is now called The Lesser Maiden Castle.

The area has rich veins of minerals (flint, chalk) and deposits of tin, lead and iron. Oil has also a recently been found here. The land itself is nitrogen rich and has been farmed for several thousands of years.

There are several historical areas of significance in the area, The Uffington White Horse, The Lesser Maiden Castle and the Cerne Abbas Giant. There is also the White Horseshoe falls, a popular beauty spot formed when the softer chalk deposits were eroded quicker than the surrounding rock, leaving a beautiful cascading waterfall on a white backdrop. Just off the cliffs there is also a climbers challenge, this is a tall chalk stack tower (called The Devil's Tongue) formed by the tidal waters through natural erosion. This particular climbing challenge has been getting curbed in recent years though due to safety concerns for climbers and for the fact the stack is increasingly becoming unstable due to erosion.




The Uffington White Horse.(Sheduled Ancient Monument)

The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long (374 feet), formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington (in the county of Oxfordshire, historically Berkshire), some 8 km (5 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2.5 km south of Uffington. The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north. Best views of the figure are obtained from the air, or from directly across the Vale, particularly around the villages of Great Coxwell, Longcot and Fernham. The site is owned and managed by the National Trust and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The figure presumably dates to "the later prehistory", i.e. the Iron Age (800 BC–AD 100) or the late Bronze Age (1000–700 BC). This view was generally held by scholars even before the 1990s, based on the similarity of the horse's design to comparable figures in Celtic art, and it was confirmed following a 1990 excavation led by Simon Palmer and David Miles of the Oxford Archaeological Unit, following which deposits of fine silt removed from the horse's 'beak' were scientifically dated to the late Bronze Age.


The Lesser Maiden Castle (Scheduled Ancient Monument)

This hillfort or castle seems to be a smaller version of the of the hillfort known as Maiden Castle found in Dorset. It predates Maiden Castle by several hundreds of years and was given the title of The Lesser Maiden due to it smaller footprint. Thought to have started being built over 6000 thousand years ago in the Neolithic period as a simple defensive hilltop fort, it grew in size over time. The white chalk ramparts were gradually extended over thousands of years to its current build level, which is thought to be in the Iron Age were building was slowed down or stopped. It is also thought the Uffington White Horse was carved by the same peoples who built this fort.


The Cerne Abbas Giant.(Sheduled Ancient Monument)

The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. Made by a turf-cut outline filled with chalk, it depicts a large, naked man, with an erect penis, typically described as a giant wielding a club. The figure is listed as a scheduled monument in the United Kingdom and the site where he stands is owned by the National Trust.

The figure has been the subject of much study and speculation, but its origin and age are unclear. It is often thought of as an ancient construction, though the earliest mention of it dates to the late 17th century. Early antiquarians associated it, on little evidence, with a Saxon deity, while other scholars sought to identify it with a Celtic British figure or the Roman Hercules, or some syncretization of the two. Archaeological evidence that parts of the drawing have been lost over time strengthen the Hercules identification. However the lack of earlier descriptions leads modern scholars to conclude that it may date from the 17th century, and perhaps originated as political satire.

Regardless of its age, the Cerne Abbas Giant has become an important part of local culture and folklore, which often associates it with fertility. It is one of England's best known hill figures and is a major visitor attraction in the region.


Homer Simpson.(Sheduled to be filled in?)

This hill figure is a recent addition in the area. The National Trust are in the process of trying to fill in this chalk figure at some future date as it was deemed to be an act of vandalism, but is becoming increasingly popular and there is a growing petition to try to keep it. Thought to have been cut over the course of several days by persons unknown during the autumn of months of 2009, it has even been rumoured that it was commissioned by the team that make The Simpsons cartoon, as an advertising gimmick (totally unfounded rumour).



This map is a work of fiction.

The (modified) heightmap used to generate this map is borrowed from the Summerfield Valley map by BuzZin. (Thanks BuzZin)

Map type - Boreal


Required Mods.

Terrain Texture Replacer.


Directions for adding the textures:

1) Subscribe to hyperdrive_engage's Terrain Texture Replacer mod.

2) Enable it in-game in your content manager (found in the main menu).

3) The cliff texture can be downloaded below.

Click on each link, an image should then open in your browser. Right click on the image and select 'Save Image As' and type in the corresponding name above each link(e.g cliff_texture) and click 'save'. The image should then save to your designated download folder.

Cliff_texture (essential to display the white cliffs)
Cliff texture

4) Place the texture into the folder C:\Users\YOUR NAME HERE\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Addons\Mods\TerrainTextureReplacer NOTE that you might have to create this folder yourself if it doesn't already exist.

5) Start a new game with the map.



Recommended Mods.

Disable Clouds.

Enhanced Zoom.

No Border Limit Camera.