IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
West Gomeldon, SALISBURY, SP4 6LS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to SP4 6LS by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (26 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Footpath and stile, West Gomeldon
For the other end of the footpath see Image
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.06 miles
2
Footpath, West Gomeldon
The footpath cross the corner of a small field to join a small lane near the river.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.09 miles
3
Footpath, West Gomeldon
The footpath takes walkers to the A338.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.11 miles
4
Mistletoe (Viscum album)
This evergreen lives as a semi-parasite high in the branches of broad-leaved trees in the southern half of Britain. It draws root-sap from its host tree, causing no real harm, and gets carbon dioxide from the air through its own leaves.
Its soft, white, sticky berries are often rubbed on bark and into crevices by birds. The single, round seed sprouts, invading the tree of nourishment. A green shoot develops, puts out a pair of slender, pale green leaves and eventually becomes woody. Branches divide repeatedly, making bushes that can grow three feet across, with life-spans of many years. Each mistletoe pant is either male or female. The tiny, yellow-green, wind-pollinated flowers, which open on the joints in March, have four sepals, four petals and either four minute anthers or a hidden ovary. The juicy white berries ripen in the following winter, attracting mistle thrushes and other birds.
Mistletoe growing on oak denoted a sacred tree to the Druids, and the mistletoe was carefully cut down with a golden knife in a magic ritual. The custom of kissing under the mistletoe may be linked with a fertility rite, although it may be connected with the old custom of hanging mistletoe in a porch to denote peace and hospitality. A sprig in a cradle warded off fairies, and a sprig worn under the hat gave protection against witch-craft.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.12 miles
5
Ford, River Bourne
A small ford crosses the River Bourne that takes off-road vehicles to the A338. There is a large bunch of mistletoe hanging in the tree on the opposite bank.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.12 miles
6
River Bourne, West Gomeldon
Looking downstream.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.12 miles
7
Sluice in former mill leat on the River Bourne
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 14 Dec 2020
0.13 miles
8
Mill lade, River Bourne
Lots of ice around the workings.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.13 miles
9
Gomeldon Ford
This ford on the River Bourne is found at West Gomeldon. A video of the ford can be seen at:
https://youtu.be/FMbQizsOM8w
Image: © John Walton
Taken: 23 Jan 2016
0.13 miles
10
River Bourne
Looking downstream across the ford at Gomeldon, from the footbridge which carries the path to the A338 at West Gomeldon Farm, with hemp Agrominy in flower.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 2 Aug 2010
0.13 miles