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Upper Godney, WELLS, BA5 1RY

Some polychrome brickwork makes these Vicrotian buildings distinctive.

The river runs alongside the minor road from Polsham to Godney . This is just west of Garslade farm with the usual willow trees leaning across the river banks.

The willows are still pollarded regularly though not so much use is made of the resulting twigs these days. These trees are next to the River Sheppey just west of Garslade Farm next to the road from Polsham to Godney.

Pylons marching their way across the levels. I once saw a military helicopter fly underneath the cables just here! There were no cows around then though.

These trees are an essential part of the landscape of the Levels and Moors: quick-growing, formerly much used for basket-making, and now cut back every five years or so under landscape stewardship schemes

I've come across several of these on the levels. Heaven knows what they were defending!

The River Sheppey is a tributary of the river Brue. It originates in the Mendips; the source being a group of springs to the west of the settlement of Doulting where water draining through the limestone of the Mendips appears. From Doulting the Sheppey flows southwest through the wetlands to the north of the Polden Hills. At Charlton parts of the rivers course have been culverted and the river flows beneath ground through Shepton Mallet. The river reappears at Darshill and its course continues southwest through Croscombe, Dinder, Woodford, Coxley. From Coxley the course of the river heads north through Hay Moor and North Moor, wetlands, supplied and drained by the river. The river continues west through Ash Moor, here the river course turns sharply to the south through Frogmore and west through Godney. At Lower Godney the river is channelled through the ‘James Wear River’ and the ‘Decoy Rhine’to Westhay Level where it joins ‘Whites River’ and then the River Brue. No part of the Sheppey is tidal.