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Photograph taken just south of Godney showing coppiced willows on the Somerset Levels. A war time pill box can just be made out to the right of the road through a gap in the trees. The bank, running left to right (cutting through the pill box) is a rhyne that often carries water across the levels higher than the levels themselves.
©Graham Richards
The church, seen here from Godney road, stands on a slight rise (just over 10m)which sets it above the surrounding moorland (below 5 metres)which is prone to flooding.
©Sharon Loxton
©John Finch
Dist:0.2km<br/>The road southerly from Godney Farm. 5 miles in the distance is Glastonbury Tor.
©Eugene Birchall
Dist:0.3km<br/>This 'Type 29' pill box is sited on the north bank of Division Rhyne, by the bridge, and it formed part of Stop Line Green. Stop Line Green was a 100 mile continuous semi-circular defensive line (also known as Bristol Outer Defences). It ran from Highbridge on the Bristol Channel in the south to Upper Framilode on the river Severn in the north. It was a last line of defence against an attack from the east and was built on the assumption that the Germans had already advanced this far west. It was designed to defend Bristol and so keep the port open for evacuation, resupply or reinforcements. There were many other 'stop lines' in Southern Britain, with different colour codes, all designed to be a hindrance to tanks in the event of an invasion. (Taken from 'Warwalks - Stop Line Green' by Major Green - 1999.)
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Division Rhyne is one of many drainage channels criss-crossing and draining the northern Somerset Levels. The land at this point is below 5m and prone to severe flooding. The flat area on the left is known as East Waste.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Some polychrome brickwork makes these Vicrotian buildings distinctive.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>To control the water in time of floods, this drain carries water from further inland, at a level higher than the surrounding fields.
©Graham Richards
Dist:0.4km<br/>East of Lower Godney, looking towards Godney Farm. In the distance on the right, Glastonbury Tor. It's very dark and starting to rain.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The river runs alongside the minor road from Polsham to Godney . This is just west of Garslade farm with the usual willow trees leaning across the river banks.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.6km<br/>The willows are still pollarded regularly though not so much use is made of the resulting twigs these days. These trees are next to the River Sheppey just west of Garslade Farm next to the road from Polsham to Godney.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.6km<br/>The River Sheppey is a tributary of the river Brue. It originates in the Mendips; the source being 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.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.6km<br/>I've come across several of these on the levels. Heaven knows what they were defending!
©Graham Richards
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©Rob Purvis
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©Rob Purvis

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