Photos by Graham Martin : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Dear Gary Cott,

Many thanks for your message. I see from your other correspondence that you are also interested in Bredon and in the family Daffurn. I live in Aston Somerville and Gilbert Daffurn still lives in the village and his parents are buried in the church yard. So if you do get to this area make sure you also take in Aston Somerville. I have photos of Aston Somerville church and quite a few other churches on the panoramio/google earth sites. If you click the Churches tag associated with this photo you will see that I am compiling photos of Cotswold churches as representative of the local stone and its associated architecture.

All best wishes

Graham Martin

A ture is what you see in the photograph. It is a long thin section of field which leads down to a source of water. Note that there is a spring and drinking trough visible in the opposite wall inside the ture. The word is a local dialect one describing this arrangement which seems to be specific to this area of the north Cotswolds and which date from the time when the area was dominated by sheep grazing. Sheep were grazed higher up the hill on open a rich pasture but because this is limsetone country there is no surface water, so the animals had to come down to water, the Ture is a tongue of land that leads them to water. I have no idea about the orgin of the word. There are a number of Tures in this area which have recently been restored by building new dry stone walls.At the moment there are sheep grazing in the field above this one and they come down to drink occasionally. Another one nearby, which I have also photographed and placed on Google Earth is used by cattle. Not far away there is another Ture but this one leads to a dew pond rather than a spring.

many thanks for taking an interest.

All best

Graham Martin

Wonderful island. Big shot. Perfect.

Best wishes from Brumm, Germany

PS: My gallery is under tag > Brumm2009 < available.

Thank you. It was a very wet and windy day. I think the photo caught the scene well. The albatross provided a very good context.

All best Graham Martin

NICE YAAY im 1st commenter!!! fank you fanzzz 777

Thanks for picking this up. I have added the photo to your suggested site. You will see that I have been collecting photos of churches, mainly in the north Cotswolds. Let me know if there are any others that could usefully be put on your site.

Graham

Hello Tania

A very beautifull sunset shot!

Greetings from Denmark,

Per

Dear PJVG,

Yes, I would like to get a photo showing the island, however, I am not able to take a flight to get that shot. You might try contacting Tania Anderson who also has some Kamfer's Dam photos on Panoramio/Google Earth, perhaps she has some showing the island from the air.

All best wishes

Graham martin