2020

SO6010 : Cannop Ponds picnic area

taken 4 years ago, near to Coalway, Gloucestershire, England

Cannop Ponds picnic area
Cannop Ponds picnic area
A view through a window in the foliage to the picnic area at Cannop Ponds, busy with families on this sunny June day. In the foreground is a coot nest (not moorhen, as I initially thought). This is yet another Forest of Dean location whose idyllic present belies its industrial past: the ponds themselves are old gravel workings and near here was a wood distillation works and at least one colliery, served by a railway which ran along the flat area of land visible in the clearing behind the people.

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Geographical Context: Public buildings and spaces Lakes, Wetland, Bog Railways People, Events Place: Cannop Ponds Primary Subject: Lake other tags: Cannop Brook Ponds Picnic Area Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Cannop Ponds in the Forest of Dean [13] · Picnic Area [2] ·
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Photographer
John Winder   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 28 June, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 26 July, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 6078 1003 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:47.2526N 2:34.2000W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 6073 1011
View Direction
South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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