IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Cross, SHERBORNE, DT9 6RY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Cross, DT9 6RY by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (105 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Railway Cutting Bradford Abbas
Looking west towards the village on the Yeovil to Sherborne line
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 14 Apr 2008
0.07 miles
2
Allotments, Bradford Abbas
Allotments are small parcels of land rented to individuals usually for the purpose of growing food crops. There is no set standard size but the most common plot is 10 rods, an ancient measurement equivalent to 302 square yards or 253 square metres.
The land itself is often owned by local government (parish or town councils) or self managed and owned by the allotment holders through an association. Some allotments are owned by the Church of England.
The history of allotments can be said to go back over a thousand years to when the Saxons would clear a field from woodland which would be held in common. Following the Norman conquest, land ownership became more concentrated in the hands of the manorial lords, monasteries and church. The reformation in the 1540s confiscated much of the church lands but they were transferred via the crown to the lords.
In the late 1500s under Elizabeth I common lands used by the poor for growing food and keeping animals began to be enclosed dispossessing the poor. In compensation allotments of land were attached to tenant cottages. This is the first mention of allotments.
The modern notion of an allotment came into being during the Nineteenth Century. A lot of people from the country went to work and live in towns; there was a lot of poverty, and what the Victorians called "degeneracy" amongst the working classes.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.09 miles
3
Churchwell Street, Bradford Abbas
A K6 telephone box stands beside pretty cottages on Churchwell Street.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.10 miles
4
Post Office, Bradford Abbas
The village shop and post office was very busy when I visited the village.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.11 miles
6
Westbound Railway
Looking towards Bradford Abbas, (where the train does not stop). This is the line from London to Yeovil Junction.
Image: © Steve Barnes
Taken: 23 Aug 2009
0.11 miles
7
Bradford Abbas: red telephone box
Looking along Churchwell Street from Church Road.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 27 Mar 2014
0.11 miles
8
Bradford Abbas: the village store
Currently receiving a delivery of wine, the village store also contained the post office until the sudden death of the postmaster in April 2012. Post office services resumed in the village on 14 March 2013 when an outreach service commenced at the village hall (see Image for more details).
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 27 Mar 2014
0.11 miles
9
Bradford Abbas: postbox № DT9 40, Church Road
A closer view of the postbox set within the wall of Image], a George V-reign specimen.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 27 Mar 2014
0.11 miles
10
Tree, Bradford Abbas
The truck of the tree has grown over the wall. I wonder how many years it has taken to do this.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.11 miles