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Just stubble left, after harvest at Thorpe-le-Soken.
©M J Richardson
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©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.4km<br/>Modern developments have the double bow-fronted Mill House, parts of which date from the 17C, serving as an excellent B&B, while the house this side of Mill Lane is a Balti and Bangladeshi restaurant.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A small and 'epicurious' delicatessen in Thorpe-le-Soken. The heron [stuffed, I presume] is on its nest on the chimney.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A small but particularly nice specimen of a ginkgo or maidenhair tree [Ginkgo biloba] in a garden in Kirby-le-Soken. Apparently identical fossils 200 million years old are known.
©M J Richardson
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.4km<br/>This picture shows part of the main village street, which has many interesting old houses and inns. The 16th century tower of St.Michael's church can be seen in the background.
©Robert Edwards
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km<br/>An unusual church positioned behind buildings in the High Street.
©Robin Lucas
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©John Salmon
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©Peter Stack
Dist:0.5km<br/>A pale version of this very variable, and very common, 'polypore' or 'bracket' fungus. On a fallen branch in a very dark wood near Thorpe-le-Soken church
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Flowers marking a recent grave, of Ralph Lawrie, in the churchyard at Thorpe-le-Soken. With the centrepiece of sausages, beefburger and kebab, he was presumably a keen barbecue fan.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Abbey, a large house in Abbey Street. A hanging sign above the entrance bears the date 1583.
©Robin Lucas
Dist:0.6km<br/>A bracket or polypore fungus, Polyporus squamosus, very common on trunks of dead trees. These were on a stump in a very dark wood just off Station Road, Thorpe-le-Soken.
©M J Richardson

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