With time on our side a corporate decision was made to halt progress and take a half mile walk away from the cut to visit the village of Yardley Gobion...
There is tasteful new housing projects going ahead but what caught the eye was the diversity of old house designs all within a three quarter mile stretch of the village...
What you would expect....
Houses with the Thatch top....
One from....
Wisteria Lane...
On the outside...
Contemporary Family home...The "S,es" on the wall attach to the steel rods that run to the other side of the building to stop the walls from falling out...
Standing alone and in peace...
The old church built 1864...
Looking up...
The under side of a thatch porch...
Always pleases the eye....
Espalier trees.....
Now a family home....
The sign on the wall... The Old Hall... probably the place of old time dance and the start of many a village relationship...
Bit of a crossbreed....
Thatch and slate.... still nice...
Interesting....
Detail with the brick ends protruding on the gable face....
This was one of the earliest....
"Boarding Houses"....
You just gotta have ......
A Front Door....
If the village has "Class" and this one does...
Then it's got a....
Kombi... Camper... Lowered suspension... and look at the security pole in the ground... Stop Thief.....
A house with a......
Early example of a "Bay Window"...
Then there's the....
Castle look......
A village worth a look....
Back to the canal and bridges come and go very regularly but this one...
At Cosgrove is of a unique Gothic style... 1800,s....
And these....
Abutments are part of it as well....
Crossed over the....
Great Ouse Aqueduct... A square cast iron trough on stone pillars built in 1811.. Done away with 9 locks that were once used to get there....
And finally this weeks.....
Piece Of Shit... Yep passed the guy that lives on it pushing that bike on the tow path earlier and he stunk like a "Polecat".... Another disgrace to the canal system....
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