Slough: Baylis Pond
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Slough: Baylis Pond
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 8 Jan 2009
Ducks struggle to cope with a frozen surface after a cold January night. Baylis Pond is in what used to be the grounds of Baylis House which now form a public park. The 1881 Edition of the Ordnance Survey mapping shows the pond with a far more formal rectangular shape. At some point the south-western corner has been filled in, all the other corners rounded off, and some bird-nesting islands introduced.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.516209
Longitude
-0.605486