Photos by Lewis Clarke : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

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vinc107 said:

interesting shot

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g88keeper said:

the communications 'golf-ball'


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g88keeper said:

Van Post, which quite possibly got its name from the horse-drawn Showmen's Vans which would have parked up here before Bampton Fair in October. The while 'golf-ball' in the distance is something to do with the Meteorological Office, but may have other uses as a link in the national microwave communications network.


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g88keeper said:

This was the Post Office in Cove - it had a petrol-pump on the narrow strip of forecourt next to the road!


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g88keeper said:

Bampton railway-station occupied this site till the line was closed in the 1960s. It was in a cutting that ran through, about twenty feet below the level of the current car-park surface. Anderton & Rowlands FunFair sets up on here every year, for Bampton Fair, which has happened on the last Thursday in October every year since at least 1258.


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g88keeper said:

Ale-house built by the stonemasons who built the Church. It was closed, and looked as if it was going to become derelict, but it's been renovated quite recently, which is good. There used to be a larger projecting shelf over the front door, with a big model of a swan on it.


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g88keeper said:

Was your camera drunk when you took this? There's a strange line across the middle of the image! This pub was the Tiverton Hotel for many, many years: and then it became the Seahorse Inn; and is now the Quarryman's Rest. Locals generally refer to it as the 'top pub', to differentiate it from the White Horse in the middle of town: but the White Horse has been closed for about two years now, though it is still has a licence...


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g88keeper said:

This bungalow is very close to Higher Kiln Quarry, which is a deep pit in the ground used for many years by HaulWaste (now Viridor) as a repository for toxic liquid waste. It is behind a locked gate, and has now been capped with blocks of polystyrene. The Environment Agency is supposed to monitor the site regularly, as well as groundwater sources on this side of Bampton.


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