In Britain, glacial ice and waterflows spread as far south as the Bristol Channel.Īverage temperatures were 5☌ (8☏) colder than they are today, allowing a one-kilometre-thick sheet of ice to cover much of the country.

The last Glacial Maximum was around 22,000 years ago when much of Europe was covered in ice.ĭuring the ice age, which ended about 11,500 years ago, ice covered about 30 per cent of the land in the world. The landforms featured in the map were left behind when a vast ice sheet covered the UK during the last ice age, carving its way through the country and leaving geographical scars that are still present today. It is the most complete overview of glacial landforms to date, according to researchers behind the project. The map of the glaciated British landscape, created by scientists at the University of Sheffield, contains more than 170,000 landforms from over 100 years of field investigation. The ice age peaked 22,000 years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The last one took place in the Pleistocene Epoch which began 2.6 million years ago.

There have been at least five documented major ice ages during the 4.6 billion years since the Earth formed. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and reveal new details Users can type in a place name or postcode to see how it was impacted by ice 22,000 years ago. A stunning new interactive map reveals what Britain looked like during the last ice age.

Last kingdom map of england