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It looked to us as though the thunder storm ahead was moving away so my pilot set the airboat in motion once more and we bounced across the water and grass towards the clump of trees in the middle of yesterday’s photo. In today’s image you can see how the frequent passing of the airboats has worn a trail through the sawgrass.
I noticed an observatory on the top of ‘The Villa by Barton G’ as it is now officially titled, originally the Casa Casuarina and more commonly known as the Versace House. I thought it quite curious that there was an observatory here. I doubt there’s still a telescope there and I’d wager the light pollution from the local neighborhood would render all but the brightest stars invisible if there is.
So the Four Barrows are on the ridge that separates Aldbourne Warren from North Farm. In this photo you can only see three of them, the fourth is hidden behind the stand of trees on the hillside.
The North Wessex Downs are the creation of some faceless, nameless, bureaucrat collecting together as a group downland better known by their local names such as the Berkshire Downs, White Horse Hills, Lambourne Downs, Marlborough Downs, Vale of Pewsey and Savernake Forest
Quite why this particular combe picked up the moniker of Hellscombe is lost to me. It doesn’t look particularly hellish.
Late winter and the grasses are recovering, still no leaves on the trees but the fields are being prepared for spring wheat.
