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Dist:0.2km<br/>Traditional Somerset fingerpost at junction Bath Road (B3139) and Veal Lane; slightly tapering post & pyramidal final with "SCC".
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>A freshly cut field and outbuildings belonging to Middle farm in West Horrington. The building on the right of the photograph has been constructed very recently.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.3km<br/>West Horrington tucks itself away in the valley below Horrington Hill (to the right). Not so shy the Mendip UHF Transmitter stands on Pen Hill [[ST5648]]
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km<br/>On Bath Road in West Horrington; http://www.horrington.ik.org/p_About_Us.ikml
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>The porous nature of the underlying limestone absorbs rain falling on the higher Mendips. Springs and streams do not appear until the water table is reached lower down.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>A view of the west end of the village of West Horrington. All the buildings are south facing.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from beside the 'old Wells - Bath' road, looking down a valley in the direction of South Horrington and ultimately Wells. The rain was heavy - big fat drops.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The footpath heads south from West Horrington to the main Bath-Wells road. It follows the line of a dry valley, the top of which can just be made out where the woods start in the centre of the picture. Unfortunately on this occasion the footpath was unpassable so we had to 'cut' through a few fields.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.5km<br/>About half way between East and West Horrington. The spire of South Horrington parish church appears over the rim of the hill near the tree to the right. Glastonbury Tor sits on the horizon on the left [[ST5138]]
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>A steeply sloping field leading down to the thickly wooded Biddlecombe
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Down from the Mendips.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Heading for West Horrington.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>This ruin, nestled against the woods above Biddlecombe, was once a small dwelling with its own small plot or garden. It's not shown on modern maps, but can be seen on 1900s maps. The field boundaries in this area have changed quite a lot, and the ruin is now at the edge of a much larger dairy field.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.7km<br/>This round, stone building housed a 'buddle'. The buddle is a stone lined pit or tank used for the sedimentation of ores, and there has to be a plentiful water source nearby. In this case the buddle would have to been used to obtain lead which was mined locally, and the stream which runs through the combe provided ample water.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.7km<br/>This round, stone building housed a 'buddle'. The buddle is a stone lined pit or tank used for the sedimentation of ores, and there has to be a plentiful water source nearby. In this case the buddle would have to been used to obtain lead which was mined locally, and the stream which runs through the combe provided ample water.
©Sharon Loxton

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