Great Tew: Sheepology
4 August 2001
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Great Tew, Oxfordshire, OS Explorer 191 (west). I parked in the village car park in Great Tew and walked all the way to South Newington. There I turned around and took a more easterly route through Grove Ash Farm and over Raven Hill back to Great Tew. |
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Wet at first but clearing up later. | |
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The post office in Great Tew is very cute. Note the sign above the door. |
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Also in Great Tew I found this garden gate set in a wall of mellow Cotswold stone. |
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Great Tew seen through the rain from Cow Hill. |
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| The rain collected in the cup of this ladies mantle. Pretty, isn't it? Medieval alchemists used to believe that dew collected from ladies mantles would help them turn lead into gold. |  |
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Common toadflax, Antirrhinum linaria, is a showy native with yellow flowers. As you can see from the structue of the flower, it's related to the garden snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus. | |
| Looking down the steep hill near High Havens Farm. |  |
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This is the road from the B4031 to Grove Ash Farm. | |
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By the time I reached Grove Ash Farm the sun had come out. |
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I had a picknick under an ash tree, watching the sheep walk to and fro. | |
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As dusk came one sheep was all on its own and feeling lonely. |
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It was getting dark and I still had a bit to go to get to the car but I stopped and snapped this photo of the sky at nightfall. | |