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Dist:0.3km north<br/>The footpath between Lacock Bridge and Reybridge reaches the water's edge at this point, with the river (flowing to the left) rounding a meander.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Looking upstream towards Reybridge from the same spot as [[1346180]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Another view from the same spot as [[1338681]], looking to the left. The houses on the left are on the lane past Bewley Court.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Morning sun lights the roadside pub, also shown in http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=6618422 .
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km north<br/>It was fortunate that these two mounts with their riders passed by as I was preparing to photograph the bridge, most obliging. The extended bridge here takes the road across the flood plain as well as the river and a small tributary. Horse riders
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km north<br/>At the end of Bewley Lane where it joins the road between Lacock and Bowden Hill, this was once a canalside pub and may be so again. A close look at [[[123270]]] reveals a slight hump in the road beyond the pub. This was a bridge over the Wilts. and Berks. Canal. A restoration group is presently hard at work rebuilding locks, bridges, spillweirs, etc. though they have yet to come up with a completion date. http://www.wbct.org.uk/
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking upstream on a misty morning, with the road into Lacock on the left.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Rog Frost
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A cereal crop between the housing at Bewley Crescent and the common. In the background are woods on the slopes of Nocketts Hill.
©Derek Harper
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This useful bit of path alongside the roadway does not extend to or across the bridge itself; the bridge's parapet can be seen in the foreground.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The Wilts & Berks Canal crossed this field until it was filled in.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km west<br/>The Tower also has a turret, out of view in this shot - see [[1526455]]
©Ian Petticrew
Dist:0.5km west<br/>Lacock Abbey is in the village of Lacock in Wiltshire. It was founded by Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury in the reign of King Henry III. Unlike many other monastic buildings, the Abbey survived the 'Dissolution of the Monasteries' in the mid-16th century, being sold by Henry VIII to Sir William Sharrington who converted it into a house. The Abbey eventually passed to the Talbot family and today is most often associated with William Henry Fox Talbot who, in 1835, invented the earliest known photographic process to produce a permanent 'negative/positive' image upon which modern photography is based (the earliest surviving image he created was an inside view of the oriel window on the left). The process, which became known as the Caltotype (or Talbotype) process, created photographic images directly onto paper coated with silver iodide. Paper Calotype negatives can produce an extremely beautiful 'soft focus' effect.
©Ian Petticrew
Dist:0.5km west<br/>Lacock Abbey is in the village of Lacock in Wiltshire. It was founded by Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury in the reign of King Henry III. Unlike many other monastic buildings, the Abbey survived the 'Dissolution of the Monasteries' in the mid-16th century, being sold by Henry VIII to Sir William Sharrington who converted it into a house. The Abbey eventually passed to the Talbot family and today is most often associated with William Henry Fox Talbot who, in 1835, invented the earliest known photographic process to produce a permanent 'negative/positive' image upon which modern photography is based. The process, which became known as the Caltotype (or Talbotype) process, created photographic images directly onto paper coated with silver iodide. Paper Calotype negatives can produce an extremely beautiful 'soft focus' effect.
©Ian Petticrew

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