How Newington nestles - Newington Bagpath, Gloucestershire
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How Newington nestles - Newington Bagpath, Gloucestershire
Image: © Martin Richard Phelan Taken: 22 Jun 2013
The hamlet of Newington Bagpath sits beside the Little Avon River, a water supply being one of the reasons for its siting and possibly some shelter from winter winds and snow. The view here will be quite changed from that in mediaeval times as far as the buildings are concerned, when the inhabitants of the castle looked down from their height above the valley and the long-disused parish church was regularly open for services. The hamlet once supported a colony of weavers and the monks of Kingswood Abbey had a number of cloth mills along the course of the Little Avon. The Little Avon is an example of a misfit stream, seeming too small for the valley in which it flows. Time photo taken 4.21 pm BST (British Summer Time).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.651874
Longitude
-2.264176