Hill Pond, Oxfordshire

Swift ditch from the bridge

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Swift ditch which used to take goods via small barges from the Thames near by to the Thames again the other side of Abingdon thus bypassing the shallows which were at Abingdon and caused problems with navigation in the Middle Ages.

Uploaded to Geograph by Bill Nicholls on 28 November 2010

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