Footbridge to the church

I am standing on the road bridge over the stream to take this shot of the footbridge. During the early part of the twentieth century the church access was via a ford. The road was a dirt road and quite a bit lower than today. It all flooded regularly and the newly installed vicar's wife who arrived in the winter of 1904/5 to view the accommodation (directly opposite on the other side of the road) was appalled. She was relocating from Bristol. Here in Marston the roads were rutted and muddy, there was no street lighting and the Rectory was a horror! She spent her first hour brushing mud off her skirt.
Nowadays, despite the higher macadamised road, it is still prone to flooding at this point.




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