IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Mede Close, GILLINGHAM, SP8 5BL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Mede Close, SP8 5BL 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
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (63 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
1
'Is it nothing to you who pass by?'
The inscription on Bourton's war memorial speaks volumes of the brave men of the village.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 6 Mar 2020
0.02 miles
2
Bourton war memorial
The village remembers its fallen close to the main road and the school. Behind it is a stone wall which happens to be built from the rubble of the previous school that was destroyed by fire in 1983.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 6 Mar 2020
0.02 miles
3
The old Red Lion
This handsome house used to be the Red Lion, an old coaching inn dating from about 1830.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 6 Mar 2020
0.03 miles
4
Bourton notices
You would too if you waited at this bus shelter and took a gander at the leaflets.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 6 Mar 2020
0.03 miles
5
War Memorial at Bourton
A view looking south across the old A303 road to the war memorial cross at the junction with the lane to West Bourton.
Image: © Phil Williams
Taken: 16 Jun 2006
0.07 miles
6
Bourton: postbox № SP8 74 and the village shop
This George VI-reign postbox is set into a brick pillar outside the shop which may well once have been the post office. It is emptied finally at 5pm on weekdays and at 9:45am on Saturdays.
Nowadays the post office is a short distance to the northeast - see Image
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 24 Oct 2010
0.08 miles
7
Fields around Bourton
Looking down on St George's Church from the footpath.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 6 Mar 2020
0.09 miles
8
Interior, St George's Church
The eagle is a symbol of the resurrection or ascension of Christ due to the fact that it soars upwards. By extension, the eagle symbolises baptised Christians, who have symbolically died and risen with Christ.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 30 Aug 2010
0.09 miles
9
The Church of St George, Bourton
The church of St George, rebuilt in 1879-1880 is in the perpendicular style and consists of a chancel, nave, south porch and an incomplete tower which contains three bells.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 30 Aug 2010
0.10 miles
