River Great Ouse in Buckingham
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River Great Ouse in Buckingham
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 17 Oct 2010
This is the view looking downstream from the footbridge next to London Bridge. One of the unusual features of large scale Victorian Ordnance Survey maps was the occasional recording of the precise surface level, above sea level, of the water in a river at a prominent crossing point with the exact date that it was measured shown on the map too. Here the Ordnance Survey surveyed a height of 253.61 feet on 15 July 1879. This is 77.30 metres, and it would be interesting, as a comparison, to see what level the Environment Agency currently have for the location.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.998724
Longitude
-0.985733