IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Manor Gardens, SWINDON, SN2 2ND
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Manor Gardens, SN2 2ND by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (43 Images Found)
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Manor House and Manor Cottage, Cheney Manor Road
Grade II* listed building built of Swindon stone. The core, with the wide gable end facing the camera, dates from the late 16th century. The right wing was added in the 18th century. The dairy to the left was added in the early 19th century and had a hayloft over it. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101023468-manor-house-and-manor-cottage-rodbourne-cheney-ward#.WMqvLmesmUk
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 16 Mar 2017
0.09 miles
2
Emperor Dragonfly, Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
This lovely creature was flying around most of the time only stopping briefly at various places. In flight it looks like a miniature helicopter.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.09 miles
3
Mallard drake, Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
Just one of several mallard resident here, this one enjoying the sunshine on an angling platform.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.10 miles
4
Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor Road, Swindon
A popular angling venue, it contains some large carp which can be seen just beneath the surface in the right circumstances.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.10 miles
5
Carp (?), Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
One of several large carp, or perhaps tench, that live in the pond. This one is well over a foot (30cm) long. The white specks on the water are from willow trees.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.10 miles
7
Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
This large pond is a well-used facility for anglers. However, it is also an unofficial nature reserve with a varied population of water birds including moorhens, coots, swans and ducks. Also to be seen are dragonflies and damselflies. The pond is tucked away between an industrial estate, houses and allotments. I should know how it came by its name but I don't I'm afraid. It may well once have been a brickworks, or at least a claypit.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.12 miles
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Young coot, Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
I hadn't seen a coot chick before. This is one of three I saw with their parents. I expect its mother loves it.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.12 miles
9
Coots, Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
Feeding time. I'm not sure what it is the parents have provided; it looks like a dead fish. Whatever it was the youngsters seemed to like it.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.12 miles
10
Azure Damselfly, Plaum's Pit, Cheney Manor, Swindon
Told from the Common Blue Damselfly by the rugby-post shaped mark near the wing base. Damselflies hold their wing along their body at rest or out to about 45 degrees, dragonflies hold their wings at 90 degrees to their body. See http://british-dragonflies.org.uk/
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 5 Jun 2007
0.12 miles