Brick-built cottages, Swaffham Prior
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Brick-built cottages, Swaffham Prior
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 18 May 2017
Just north of the Red Lion, in Swaffham Prior High Street. In this village - and others nearby - most of the older buildings are not brick-built (clunch is perhaps more typical). But the pale-coloured brick seen here strikes me as typical of Cambridgeshire - in places such as March and Chatteris, or along the A1 in the old county of Huntingdonshire. According to Alec Clifton-Taylor (writing in the Cambridgeshire volume of 'The Buildings of England') these 'washed-out yellow-grey bricks' are made from the Gault clay to be found along the left bank of the Cam.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.251934
Longitude
0.295174