2017

TL5664 : Brick-built cottages, Swaffham Prior

taken 7 years ago, near to Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England

Brick-built cottages, Swaffham Prior
Brick-built cottages, Swaffham Prior
Just north of the Red Lion, in Swaffham Prior High Street.

In this village - and others nearby - most of the older buildings are not brick-built (clunch is perhaps more typical). But the pale-coloured brick seen here strikes me as typical of Cambridgeshire - in places such as March and Chatteris, or along the A1 in the old county of Huntingdonshire. According to Alec Clifton-Taylor (writing in the Cambridgeshire volume of 'The Buildings of England') these 'washed-out yellow-grey bricks' are made from the Gault clay to be found along the left bank of the Cam.

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TL5664, 47 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Stefan Czapski   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 18 May, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 21 May, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5677 6401 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:15.1160N 0:17.7105E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5674 6402
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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