BB Ponds
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:36 am
Reading:
"Be Quiet and Go A-Angling" by BB. Lovely book. In it he talks about a Pond which was on their childhood homes' land.
BB as a child, I think, lived in here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36414 ... 312!8i6656
To the Northwest of this house, (which is next to All Saints Church), feasibly in the Church/Rectory grounds, is a lovely looking pond: I guess this was the pond referred to in the book. Look here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36493 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Zoomed in look of pond.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36676 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Also, in the book above, he discusses a pond he owned referred to as Thorney Pond - I wonder whether this is the same as Wood Pool? He describes it as having woods by it and Blackthorns. (Probably not).
I'm now trying to track down his Uncles 3 acre pond in Oxfordshire which was resurrected by his Uncle after being drained.
I love ponds!
Mark
"Be Quiet and Go A-Angling" by BB. Lovely book. In it he talks about a Pond which was on their childhood homes' land.
BB as a child, I think, lived in here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36414 ... 312!8i6656
To the Northwest of this house, (which is next to All Saints Church), feasibly in the Church/Rectory grounds, is a lovely looking pond: I guess this was the pond referred to in the book. Look here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36493 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Zoomed in look of pond.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.36676 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Also, in the book above, he discusses a pond he owned referred to as Thorney Pond - I wonder whether this is the same as Wood Pool? He describes it as having woods by it and Blackthorns. (Probably not).
I'm now trying to track down his Uncles 3 acre pond in Oxfordshire which was resurrected by his Uncle after being drained.
I love ponds!
Mark