Wotton Hill

The circle of trees here were planted on Wotton Hill in 1887 to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria, having cleared the remains of the original copse of trees which was planted in 1815 to celebrate the victory over Napoleon at Waterloo. I gather the old trees formed a part of the bonfire which burned here as part of a chain of jubilee beacons across the country...

In the middle distance, to the right of the walled copse and past Happy_Janwen, is the village of Charfield. Our home. In fact you can see our house from here, albeit only with a decent magnifying glass!!! And now I know you've gone Large... great!

In taking this photograph I was considering how useful it would be to place Charfield in its landscape, when the Neighbourhood Plan is written. You can see so much from up here, and in a wider but then again insufficiently wide HDR photograph in the extra you can see the wind turbines at Avonmouth to the far left, both Severn Bridges into Wales and to the right of frame Oldbury Nuclear Station (now decommissioning) and the recent solar farm at Huntingford. I guess come springtime I will come back with a wide lens and a tripod.

For those with an interest ;-) the Neighbourhood Development Area falls into consultation in a fortnight, with a decision confirming it and the NDP at the end of January.