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©David Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>It's mid August and this field of grass is looking particularly weary, full of dried out dock. The grass growth is only just recovering from a very dry July.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>There is a painting by Ruskin Spear of this hall in the series "Recording the changing face of Britain" dating from 1940. The scheme ran alongside the official War Artists' Scheme.
©David Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>The road junction at the centre of the village has one or two shops and a road with a surprising number of heavy goods vehicles rumbling through it.
©Tony Atkin
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The village of Roche, pronounced "Roach", is situated between Goss Moor to the north and the St Austell granite to the south. It is one of Cornwall's "clay" villages. The main industry hereabouts being the extraction of china clay. This photograph is looks north towards the village centre on the road from St Austell. The yellow building in the foreground is the Poacher's Inn.
©Tony Atkin
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Seen in a field on the western edge of Roche.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.6km<br/>The pub.
©David Long
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking east towards the edge of the village.
©Tony Atkin
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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.7km<br/>This stone commemorates the year 2000. Underneath it the village Guides have buried a time capsule.
©Tony Atkin
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©Colin Pyle
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©David Smith
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©Bill Henderson

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