Highbridge Wharf
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Highbridge Wharf by Kerryn as part of the Geograph project.
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Highbridge Wharf
Image: © Kerryn Taken: 22 May 2009
This is the view north-west from the site of the original ‘high bridge’ to what was once Highbridge Wharf. When a new cut was made in 1801-09, as part of the River Brue Drainage Scheme, the old course of the Brue, including the wharf, was bypassed. Nonetheless, it managed to remain in commercial use, though at the last only in a small way, until the 1950s. Then it was surfaced, and used for what became the largest cattle market in the south-west; but that too closed in 2007.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.219639
Longitude
-2.977483