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Pete G

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winter-borne break

Dec 14, 2006, 23:36

Rhiannon,
nice quote,
"Folks say that no man ever saw a 'winter-borne break. It is dry one day and running the next, but its first downpour was never beheld. Many years ago watch was kept day and night for a fortnight for the breaking of the Winterborne Abbas stream. One night the watchman on duty found that his pipe had gone out. 'Bridehead-lodge - he bean't 'bove hundred or two yard - can't do any harm to get light there.' But in those three minutes the winter-borne broke unseen."

I've seen it :)

http://aveburytour.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Mac/Winterbourne.htm
PeteG

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Re: winter-borne break (Rhiannon)
Re: winter-borne break (moss)

Topic Outline:

winter-borne break – Pete G, Dec 14, 2006, 23:36
- Re: winter-borne break – Rhiannon, Dec 14, 2006, 23:50
  - Re: winter-borne break – Pete G, Dec 14, 2006, 23:54
    - Re: winter-borne break – Rhiannon, Dec 15, 2006, 00:03
      - Re: winter-borne break – Pete G, Dec 15, 2006, 02:42
        Adams Grave - Knap hill – Pete G, Dec 19, 2006, 22:30
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – Rhiannon, Dec 20, 2006, 14:51
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 20, 2006, 22:36
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – Pete G, Dec 20, 2006, 22:38
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 20, 2006, 22:43
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 20, 2006, 22:53
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – Pete G, Dec 20, 2006, 22:53
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 20, 2006, 23:02
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – tiompan, Dec 20, 2006, 23:08
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – Pete G, Dec 20, 2006, 23:09
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 20, 2006, 23:11
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 24, 2006, 23:23
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – Pete G, Dec 24, 2006, 23:34
        Re: Adams Grave - Knap hill – The Eternal, Dec 24, 2006, 23:50
- Re: winter-borne break – moss, Dec 15, 2006, 07:09
  - Re: winter-borne break – Pete G, Dec 15, 2006, 19:02


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