Handsome trees at the junction outside The Shire Horse, photographed at dusk on a May evening. The road to the left leads to Osmaston, the one ahead to Wyaston and the lane to the right to Edlaston.

Looking across the pond to the village store.

Alongside Church Lane on the northern approach to the inn. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6163157

Little sign of activity in this hive today.

A pedestal letterbox, a type L or M?

The brick kiln was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. It is a bottle kiln. It is said to be the only estate kiln remaining of its period and of a local design. Nettlebed was known for producing tiles and then bricks from the medieval period until the 20th century. The kiln is a Grade II listed building and sits incongruously between modern surburban homes.

A lot of the expansion into the Stokes area is composed of office and business properties.

Set back from the east side of Church Lane. Built as a mill house in the 18th century. Grade II listed in 1984. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6163163 to the name sign near the camera.

This is just to the west of the Grand Union Canal and is accessed by a footpath as The Coy Carp is reached. A path then passes along a wooded causeway through Pynesfield Lake before eventually reaching Old Uxbridge Road - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6163154 This view is of the southern part of the lake from the causeway.

Essentially a twenty-first century dual carriageway as part of the general expansion of the north Bristol area.

This is just to the west of the Grand Union Canal and is accessed by a footpath as The Coy Carp is reached. The path then passes along this wooded causeway through Pynesfield Lake before eventually reaching Old Uxbridge Road.

Houses in the Rudy Community.

There were once two villages: Bix Brand and Bix Gibwyn. Bix Brand's original parish church of St James is a small Norman building in Bix Bottom, about 1 mile north of the village. It has a nave, chancel and several Norman lancet windows. Later additions include the Perpendicular Gothic east window and another Perpendicular window in the south wall. In 1874 the architect John Gibson completed the village's new Church of England parish church, closer to the centre of the village, also dedicated to St James. The old church was abandoned in 1875 and became ruined and overgrown. Scenes from the 1971 Tigon British Film Productions film The Blood on Satan's Claw were filmed there. Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2015 has stabilised and preserved the ruin.