Former hop fields
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Former hop fields by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Former hop fields
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 22 Mar 2009
The presence of several former oast houses in the square, including Rocks oast Image at the far end of this track, and the tall hedges, suggests that these were once hop fields. They now seem to support a mixture of fruit trees and unidentified crops. There is an unusually sharp cloud shadow edge sweeping along the field towards the camera in this shot.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.278699
Longitude
0.439477