A343 passes The Bungalow
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A343 passes The Bungalow
Image: © Stuart Logan Taken: 14 Feb 2013
It might seem incongruous to see a line of dark conifers across an otherwise unblemised Hampshire hillside but these may have been planted as a shelter belt. Trees and bushes will shelter an area from the wind, in their lee, up to a distance of 40 times their height. Thus these 60 foot high trees would provide almost half a mile of wind abatement. It's also unusual to see the word Bungalow marked on a map. The term originated in India, deriving from the Gujarati બંગલો baṅgalo, which in turn derives from Hindi बंगला baṅglā, meaning "Bengali" and used elliptically for a "house in the Bengal style". Such houses were traditionally small, only one storey and detached, and had a wide veranda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow
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Image Location
Latitude
51.289965
Longitude
-1.431784