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Dist:0.1km<br/>From Happerton Lane, with the edge of Pill in the middle distance.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pill Fire Station, Westward Drive, Pill, Bristol is station number 08 of Avon Fire & Rescue Service
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.4km<br/>Pill was made famous by Adge Cutler's song 'Pill, Pill I love thee still'. The loco is 82032. The railway was derelict for some years but was reopened to serve Portbury Docks.
©John Thorn
Dist:0.5km<br/>Pill old fire station, Lodway Business Centre, Pill, Avon
©Kevin Hale
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©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.5km<br/>Pill used to be an isolated community whose residents provided many of the sailors who serviced the River Avon, Bristol Harbour and the docks. In earlier eras it would also have been a haunt for smugglers. Nowadays it is more concerned with recreational sailing.
©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was the site of a former isolation hospital. The late sunshine catches the leaves on the trees. A railway tunnel runs underneath the park to the left of the path.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.6km<br/>Somerset (North that is), Pill, one of the many, Yeo Pill for example, but this is The Pill on the River Avon, one time Ferry to Shirehampton and long overdue for at least a footbridge; The Somerset Avon that is, not Warkwickshire, nor the Dorset Avon (Hampshire Avon, Salisbury Avon). The mud flowing down from Bristol, Westbury Trym Brook, Bath and the Cotswold is shown in the background. The intention was to try to replace the long missed Pill Ferry with a Rail and footbridge (on the level) and stop pretending Bristol is a major sea port, seize up the Cumberland Basin Bridge !!!, or put in a new road network, communicate.
©Michael Dennis Stagg
Dist:0.6km<br/>The tidal Avon laps at its muddy banks where, until 1973, a ferry operated across to Pill which can be seen on the opposite bank.
©Stephen McKay
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©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.7km<br/>This rowe type milepost is on the Bristol to Portishead Cycle Path, routes 33 and 41.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.8km<br/>The old clubhouse with the modern one beyond. Near the concrete track for the floodgate is a survey bolt. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2272539 for a close-up.
©Brian Westlake
Dist:0.8km<br/>Survey bolt near Shirehampton Sailing Clubhouse (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2272545 ). This is believed to be a transfer bolt, to allow the continuation of a survey levelling across the River Avon to a similar bolt on the Pill side of the river. See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm24975 for details.
©Brian Westlake
Dist:0.8km<br/>The closed Lamplighters public house at the waterside in Shirehampton, Bristol.
©Brian Westlake
Dist:0.8km<br/>Yet another pub bites the dust... Whereas so many, however, disappear quietly with local people shrugging their shoulders, this one seems to have caused quite a stir with the local MP, Charlotte Leslie, fronting a campaign to persuade its owners, Enterprise Inns, to reopen or sell the pub at a realistic price. The potential ought to be there with its enviable views across the River Avon.
©Stephen McKay

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