As always it is so difficult to really give an impression with these before-and-after photos of quite how much has been done. I think everyone was “feeling the burn” at the end of this month’s working party as we cleared the brambles and undergrowth back as far as the estate wall below the stone dial on Penpole Point. Perhaps the most telling of the images are those taken from the wall looking up towards the dial, but we recommend you go and take a look for yourselves now we’ve reached that goal!
- Looking towards the Compass Dial from below. This was the densest part of the job!
- The high isolated location of the Compass Dial is revealed
- Cleared undergrowth revealed a whole new extension to the landscape
- Looking from the Compass Dial back towards the ruins of Penpole Lodge. The wall of brambles and undergrowth can be seen on the left
- Looking from the Compass Dial back towards the ruins of Penpole Lodge. The wall of brambles and undergrowth can be seen on the left
- Looking towards Lawrence Weston from the Dial. Views down to the estate have been revealed and show quite how high you are up here
- The tangle of undergrowth gives way to the open views of teh Point once more
- Looking from the Compass Dial back towards the ruins of Penpole Lodge. The wall of brambles and undergrowth can be seen on the left
- Looking from the Compass Dial back towards the ruins of Penpole Lodge. The wall of brambles and undergrowth can be seen on the left
- Looking from the Compass Dial back towards the ruins of Penpole Lodge. The wall of brambles and undergrowth can be seen on the left
- Panorama along the path to the Dial showing the whole stretch between it and the ruins of Penpole Lodge in the far right
- Panorama along the path to the Dial showing the whole stretch between it and the ruins of Penpole Lodge in the far right
- Looking towards the Dial, before and after work
- Subtle change here, but you can at alst see the dial from the ruins of Penpole Lodge.