Tagged: River Brue

Bridges over Troubled Waters

Joining Westhay with Wedmore is a road called Blakeway.  It cuts across the flat ground of the Somerset Levels.  Apart from a couple of sharp bends near Sweets Tea Rooms this is a very...

Flooded Meare Pool - Meare, Somerset, UK. ID JB_5342

Meare Pool

In medieval times Meare Pool was a large fishery pool.  But in the 18th century it was drained and today it no longer exists.  But with all the rain recently we have the chance...

Buzzard on a pile of manure - Westhay, Somerset Levels, UK. ID MG_8555

Westhay Bridge

There is a road that runs north from of the village of Westhay in Somerset.  The OS maps call this Main Road.  While Google maps calls it Blakeway.   Before I noticed this conflict...

Starlings - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_5503

Somerset Year 2022

As is often the case my photograph year started with a sunrise at RSPB Ham Wall. Ham Wall Visits to RSPB Ham Wall to watch the starling murmurations tops and tails each year.  This...

Glastonbury Tor from Westhay Bridge - Westhay, Somerset, UK. ID JB_0037

Morning Brue

The River Brue flows very slowly across the Somerset Levels.  Much of its route is really straight, but a small section between Meare and Westhay is all wibbly-wobbly.  So I started a mini-project to...

Church of St Peter - Lydford-on-Fosse, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_0214P

Lydford On Fosse

West Lyford Tucked away in the countryside, out of sight from the busy cross roads of the Fosse Way (aka A37) and the B3153 is the small village of West Lydford. The River Blue...

River Brue at Tootle Bridge - Barton St David, Somerset, UK.

Barton St David

I recently passed by Barton St. David and saw the pink bales in the fields.  It a small village on my regular cycle route home from work across Somerset. Today I returned to photographs...

Heron in the mist

Meare Morning

Today I went for a walk along the River Brue at Meare before heading off to work. It was very early as I had to be in South Somerset on the Dorset border by...

Turnbridge near flood

Floodwater on the Levels

Flooding across the Somerset Levels.  Here at Spillway near the Ham Wall nature reserve the water levels are at their limits.