Staines MoorStaines,Middlesex. Tue 16 Feb 2016 |
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 The Oast House, now firmly sealed by Surrey County Council to prevent it becoming a community resource  Staines Aqueduct brings water from the Thames to the reservoirs. But it flooded disastrously into the River Ash in 2014  River Colne  The start of the River Ash, a distributary of the Colne which flows into the River Thames in Sunbury   The intake which controls the flow of the River Ash from the River Colne  Staines Bypass  The 'Big Pipe' (now there are two of them) which takes gas across the Colne  and sometimes foolhardy youths across the river  Bonehead Ditch, a stream of the Colne, rejoins it at the base of the tree line. Several trees have fallen across Bonehead Ditch providing a useful short cut to the Moor, though not one I felt up to using today |
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 River Colne and behind the trees the King George VI reservoir  The distant low hill in the centre of the image is landfill after gravel extraction.  Across the Moor is the M25 - with some road signs visible - and the bank of the Wraysbury Reservoir  A row of pylons crosses the Colne on Staines Moor    I tried the panorama mode on the Fuji X-T1 but could not really get it to work well - this was my best result, and none of them are sharp when enlarged.  The Wraysbury River is another stream of the Colne and rejoins it in the centre of Staines  |
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