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Beautiful old school house built 1850, now a private house. The road used to go around the playground to the east, but it has since been straightened.
©Rick Crowley
Dist:0.2km<br/>You can see the arch which was once over a front door, more are alongside. Cottages were demolished, earth put in the road to raise the level
©Rick Crowley
Dist:0.2km<br/>A private house. Picture taken on a village walk.
©Rick Crowley
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©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.3km<br/>T'wer much better in the old days when you 'ad the 'orses. You d' feel such a fool talking to a tractor. Keynsham is on the other side of that hill and Bristol a bit further on.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Quite what an artillery piece is doing at the entrance is not clear; quite why it is pink is less clear.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.5km<br/>Don't think I said [[[1009545]]] was taken on Middlepiece Lane, too busy going on about horses. We are now on the other side of the lane where the field has already been ploughed.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Burnett lies to our right, Compton Dando to our left. East Bristol sprawls across the hill.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken from the same spot as [[[1010677]]] but with a much longer lens. Now we can see the post office tower on Purdown and a few other items. During WWII an anti-aircraft gun was located here which we knew as Purdown Percy. For a close-up see [[[1022725]]]
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>A combine harvester was at work in the field beyond. The distant view is over east Bristol. The road behind is from Corston and the signpost tells you the rest.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>In the immediate foreground we have a field of wheat now harvested with the straw waiting for baling. Far more interesting than that, centre frame, is Fry's Chocolate Factory at Keynsham at ST6569 ----------------------------------------- On 3 October 2007, Cadbury announced plans to close the Somerdale plant (historic home of the Fry's Factory) by 2010 with the loss of some 500 jobs. In an effort to maintain competitiveness in a global marketplace, production will be moved to a sister factory in Poland. Another motivational factor was the high real estate value of the land. In the longer term it is likely the greenfield site will be re-classified and provide Keynsham with much needed additional housing. Labour MP for Wansdyke, Dan Norris said "news of the factory's closure is a hard and heavy blow, not just to the workforce, but to the Keynsham community as a whole". The above was copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._Fry_&_Sons
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>Taken late November 2007 one afternoon
©Rick Crowley
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©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The playing fields at Manor Road can be seen near the lower left of the photo which was taken from a Bristol bound flight from Glasgow.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:1.0km southwest<br/>Taken November 2007. I walked past this in April 2010 and it had fallen over.
©Rick Crowley

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