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©norman hyett
Dist:0.4km<br/>The silos are at Slack's Barn. Looking across one of the tributaries of the Churn/Thames river system.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>The silos in this picture feature in another photograph in this square.
©Mike Baldwin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bowl-like depression in the ground from which the springs appear has been cleared of vegetation. There is a stone tablet, written in Latin: Hic Tuus Tamesine Potier Septemceminus ?ons set into the stone wall opposite.
©Brian Green
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©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>A modern establishment across the road from the springs themselves.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.4km<br/>These days this dip in which the springs rise seems to have become a bit overgrown and less well looked after than it has been in the past. The springs are the source of the River Churn, the highest tributary of the Thames. They are claimed by some to be the real source of the Thames.
©David Stowell
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.4km<br/>A fine example of these utilitarian structures designed by an Officer in the Royal Engineers in the Great War, it may still have traces of its camouflage paint on it.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east from the A436.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>Approaching the recently realigned staggered junction with the A435.
©Jonathan Billinger
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©norman hyett
Dist:0.4km<br/>From these small caverns, set into the stone wall, emerge the seven springs of water that initiate the River Churn. Let into the same wall is a plaque stating 'HIC TUUS O'TAMESINE PATER SEPTEMGEMINUS FONS' or 'here O Father Thames is your sevenfold source. This alludes to the claim which argues: because the River Churn (an upper Thames tributary)adds 4 extra miles to the length of the mighty river, when compared with Thames Head, this spot should be considered the true source. In addition these springs, at 700 feet AMSL, do not dry up; unlike Thames Head.
©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.4km<br/>Won't be long before this crop of the noble cereal (used to make beer and whisky not to mention Marmite) is harvested. Beyond is the Cotswolds.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Farmland around Slack's Barn, which can be seen to the left of centre.
©Philip Halling

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