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Dist:0.2km<br/>It certainly does! I don't know much about water but I guess being on the top of a hill this is not a spring. Probably a convenient holding tank for the villages nearby.
©Graham Richards
Dist:0.3km<br/>Hembury Hill (right) reaches a height of 87m. Both these hills are lias outliers on the edges of the Somerset Levels and Moors.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.5km<br/>The scene on the opposite side of Castle Lane to [[2589709]]. Hembury Wood is in [[ST5044]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The base of a medieval (C14) wayside cross beside Castle Lane. "Traditionally it is associated with a nearby well, and the remains of the wellhead may be seen in the undergrowth. It appears to be a water cross which are rare in Somerset" http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=24232 . The briefer listed building description is at http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-268172-roadside-cross-at-ngr-st-5084-4407-wooke .
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.6km<br/>Passing Patience Farm, with a fine stone and tile barn alongside the road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.6km<br/>The lane follows the edge of Hay Moor; this view looks across it with Ben Knowle Hill on the left.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.7km<br/>The motte and bailey castle shown in [[668704]] is a little to the south of this building which offers bed and breakfast and bike hire. Access is across the River Sheppey in the foreground.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.7km<br/>West of the junction from which [[2589875]] was taken, the lane climbs, sunken a little, between trees.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.7km<br/>Hiller's Lane is not only the name of the narrow lane that skirts the northern side of Yarley Hill, but also this section of lane that links it with the B3139 Wells Road at Worth. Even more confusingly, one detailed map gives this arm the name "Hillier's Lane"
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.7km<br/>The eastern end of the lane, which meets Hembury Lane just west of the junction shown in [[2589839]]; the house is on the island at that junction. Behind rises Ben Knowle Hill.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.7km<br/>A dismal day - steady rain. The house on the left is on a triangular island at the junction of Castle Lane (climbing to the right) and Hembury Lane.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.8km<br/>The River Sheppey originates in the Mendips and flows through the wetlands that lie to the north of the Polden Hills. The source is a group of springs to the west of the settlement of Doulting where water draining through the limestone of the Mendips appears. From Doulting the Sheppey flows southwest through the wetlands to the north of the Polden Hills. At Charlton parts of the rivers course have been culverted and the river flows beneath ground through Shepton Mallet. The river reappears at Darshill and its course continues southwest through Croscombe, Dinder, Woodford, Coxley. From Coxley the course of the river heads north through Hay Moor and North Moor, wetlands, supplied and drained by the river. The river continues west through Ash Moor, here the river course turns sharply to the south through Frogmore and west through Godney. At Lower Godney the river is channelled through the ‘James Wear River’ and the ‘Decoy Rhine’to Westhay Level where it joins ‘Whites River’ and then the River Brue. No part of the Sheppey is tidal. This section of the river Sheppey is just to the north of Fenny Castle.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.8km<br/>Many trees on the Somerset Levels have been pollarded; that is their lateral branches branches have been cut off two or three metres above ground level. The tradition of pollarding is to encourage the tree to produce new growth on a regular basis in order to maintain a supply of new wood for various purposes. It was often preferred to coppicing in grazed areas because animals would browse the regrowth from coppice stools. The tree stands beside the river Sheppey.
©Sharon Loxton
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©Sarah Charlesworth
Dist:0.8km<br/>The westr end of the hamlet, from the same position as [[2589908]]. beyond is countryside north of Wookey, with the Mendips rising in the background. The weather's not very nice.
©Derek Harper

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