Benchmark on the Globe Inn, Newton St Loe
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Benchmark on the Globe Inn, Newton St Loe
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 18 Feb 2011
This example is trying to hide behind a drainpipe, but there's no mistaking the mark as being part of the original levelling of 1848-9. It runs from Gloucester to London, via Bristol and Bath to name a couple of places, and is listed as number 163 in the abstracts: http://www.deformedweb.co.uk/trigs/data/1GL/1GLA_049.png See the Benchmark Database for more information: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm37069 See also Image] for an evening view of the inn.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.385772
Longitude
-2.430628