Empty car park, Christmas Day
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Empty car park, Christmas Day by Penny Mayes as part of the Geograph project.
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Empty car park, Christmas Day
Image: © Penny Mayes Taken: 25 Dec 2010
The tower on the left is the former St David's church, now destined to become a play barn. The imposing building just right of centre is the Baptist Church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/149093 on New Road. The large tree on the right is Newtown's famous black poplar http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2208039. The tree used to stand on an island between the River Severn and the mill leat to the north east. After the town centre was flooded in the 1960s new flood defences were constructed, the river re-routed to follow the course of the mill leat and the old course of the river (seen here to the left of the road way) filled in to become a car park.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.513915
Longitude
-3.312766