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2024-03-28T18:52:24+00:00text/html2018-01-03T12:58:17+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.188828 -2.505491SO6554 : Former inn now licensed premises again
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This early 17th century building was for many years the Red Lion, or Lion, Inn. It closed in 1938 and was used first as a bookshop, then for a variety of commercial purposes. In 2017 it opened again as licensed premises, but as a café with flats above.text/html2018-01-03T12:49:18+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.188552 -2.507096SO6554 : Former bank now flats
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This was built for the Midland Bank in 1922 and is typical of the style of single storey pavilions with classical detail which that bank put up in many towns. Brick with stone dressings is common; the stone here is a beach deposit, sandy with shells. Later it became the HSBC Bank and closed in 2016 (leaving only one bank in the town). It has now been converted to flats. [[3186465]].text/html2015-01-09T20:44:02+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.191438 -2.504935SO6554 : Exposure of Old Red Sandstone
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When the Worcester- Bromyard railway was extended to Leominster in the 1890s they had to cut through a projecting slope of the Old Red Sandstone ledge on which the town was built. The railway is now a road, and alongside it there is an excellent exposure of the St. Maughans Formation, showing clearly how it was laid down in shifting braided river channels, with sandstone alternating with a rubbly conglomerate.text/html2015-01-09T15:33:59+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.181799 -2.488006SO6653 : Former quarry at Linton
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This quarry was started about 1876 by the entrepreneur William Finney, a former London coal merchant who had taken an interest in the projected Worcester-Bromyard railway and bought an eight acre site, Stream Hall, near the line of the railway. Although he had been assured that the site could be quarried for excellent building stone, he soon worked it chiefly as a brick and tile works. This photograph shows that there were in fact some good beds of Old Red Sandstone as well as the more marly deposits from which the tiles were made. Finney himself soon went bankrupt, but the tile works continued until the late 20th century. The portion of the site along the road is now an industrial estate; this lake is the south part of the site, behind the recycling centre.text/html2015-01-09T15:19:17+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.189811 -2.506965SO6554 : Stone wall along path between churchyard and Rowberry Street
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Bromyard has a remarkable number of late 19th or early 20th century stone walls characterised by fine large coping stones. The material all comes from the many quarries in the Old Red Sandstone (St. Maughans Group) around the environs of the town.text/html2015-01-09T10:03:38+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.191168 -2.505078SO6554 : Remains of dry stone retaining wall
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When the Worcester-Bromyard railway was extended to Leominster in the 1890s a cutting had to be made north west of the station through a projecting portion of the Old Red Sandstone ledge on which the town was founded. Above the west side of the cutting a footpath joined Church Lane with Church Street. This was given a dry stone retaining wall on its upper side, which over the years, with no maintenance, has slipped and been covered with earth and plant debris from above, so that few people now recognise it for what it was.text/html2015-01-09T09:47:10+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.190741 -2.478011SO6754 : Closed quarry, closed landfill site
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This signboard, now blank, is the only reminder on the ground that there was once a quarry mainly on Warren Farm land but encroaching onto the Bromyard Downs. The outline of the quarry can still be seen on Ordnance Survey maps. The quarry was in the lowest Devonian formation, now known as the St. Maughans Formation, and is in the traditional Old Red Sandstone group of sedimentary rocks. When the quarry was closed, decades ago, it became a council landfill site, and when it was full this notice was put up to ask people not to dump anything more there.text/html2015-01-08T19:01:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.189489 -2.476242SO6754 : Dry stone wall on Bromyard Downs
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There are not many free standing dry stone walls surviving in N E Herefordshire, and only fragments survive of this one which was built in the 19th century to separate the Downs from the Brockhampton Estate (this is in the background, part of Warren Farm). The wall ran from where Brockhampton School was later built up the hill to Warren Wood, and the stone used came from small quarries very near by.text/html2012-10-12T21:38:07+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.001075 -3.336746SO0834 : Trawscoed - a former monastic property
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The Cistercian abbey of Dore was given land in Cantref Selyf, Brycheiniog, to found a new daughter abbey around 1170. They did so at Trawscoed, but within twenty years had abolished the foundation and taken the lands into their own hands as three granges - Trawscoed, what is now Llaneglwys to the north, and Gwenddwr, further north again.
This picture is taken from beside the road leading from Llaneglwys and Wernddyfwg (a farm on the Trawscoed grange, possibly the actual site of the grange) to the hamlet called Trawscoed, where there is now no sign of any monastic building.
But the land is still used for sheep farming, as it was under the monks.text/html2012-09-10T21:29:04+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.011889 1.162261TM1739 : Grave stones in Freston churchyard
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These are the grave stones of an early 19th century farmer and his wife.text/html2012-09-10T21:03:05+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.189819 -2.505063SO6554 : New garden wall
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This garden wall in Church Street was rather boring, rising straight up from the small yard at the back of the house, with steps up right at one end. Setting the wall back in a semi-circle at half height, with steps going up the middle, has made it a far more attractive introduction to the garden. The work was carried out as an informal training day, under the supervision of a qualified instructor, a former professional dry stone waller.text/html2012-08-29T17:15:36+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.189364 -2.506228SO6554 : Tudor house in Rowberry Street
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This house is probably a rebuild in the reign of Elizabeth I of an earlier "hall house", the central part of it open to the roof. It had probably been chantry property before chantries were abolished in the late 1540s, and may have been rebuilt to provide a larger income when it was still government property but the revenues from the site were still going to support the town's school.
It has been three properties for much of its existence. The nearer gabled end is known as the "Old Record House" because the Bromyard Record was printed and published there from the end of the 19th century for several decades.text/html2012-08-29T16:53:26+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.188916 -2.506077SO6554 : Hardware shop
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This busy hardware shop in Rowberry Street sells everything - for horse riders as well as householders and gardeners. Go through to the Broad Street frontage and it's a greengrocer, grocer, florist. Like many of the premises on the north side of Broad Street and High Street, it goes right through to Rowberry Street, preserving the old medieval burgage plots.text/html2011-09-27T13:08:00+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.039369 -3.368798SO0638 : Rounding up sheep
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Two Welsh collies, a landrover, and a very experienced farmer - a familiar sight across Brecknock and Mid Wales.text/html2011-09-15T21:20:26+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/29000CHARLES GORDON CLARK52.078058 -3.319199SO0943 : Bridge over the Clettwr
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The Clettwr stream divides the village of Erwood in two, Crickadarn to the south (left in the photo), Gwenddwr to the north (right). This is taken from the bridge on the A470, which may be the “monks’ bridge” where a conference was held in September 1268 between rival local powers. The stream had small mills until the 19th century.