Water in the Moat
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Water in the Moat
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 25 Feb 2021
Marked rather inaccurately as "drain" on the map, this is part of Wallingford's Saxon moat which was dug in the reign of King Alfred to create one of the fortified towns of Wessex. A bit further along from my 2010 picture Image the moat has even more water in it this year.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.603964
Longitude
-1.126094