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Brampton Abbotts,
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A reconnaissance
walk by PJ Pikes of Archenfield Archaeology and the Wye Valley
Trekkers -
Saturday 4th March, 2006 |
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The old railway line through
Brampton Abbotts parish. looking towards Ross.
photographs by Michal Julian Szostak |
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The Wye by Backney Common |
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Backney
Common and old railway bridge |
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After
crossing the the Wye by the Foy footbridge looking back.
The clump of trees in the right background are on the near
sode of a field called Camp Field. This has in the past
been thought to have been both the site of an Iron Age
promontory fort and the medieval Eaton Tregoz castle.
Neither in fact seems likely but there are two
ring-ditches - probable Bronze Age barrows - in the field. |
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Looking
back towards Ingestone, this was once a public road. In
the right background is Lyndor Wood, mentioned in medieval
documents. |
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Strangford, a township within the parish of Fownhope until
the late 19th century. It possessed its own chapel until
the 16th century. |
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The old
road bridge over the railway cutting at Strangford. The
cutting has now been filled in and many people do not
realise that a railway ran rhrough here at all. |
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Old farm
buildings at Strangford |
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Looking
from Baysham, over the river towards Kings Caple. Baysham
is a township within Sellack parish. For a while it was the name
of the church before it reverted to the Welsh name
Sellack. |
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The massive barn at White House Farm, Baysham. |
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