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Parking - Aust, Bristol BS35 4BA
Another week, another walk, today blue skies greeted me and decided to start at Aust close to the Severn estuary. The noise from the motorway started quite loud but as the walk left the M48 behind it became a distant hum.
Muddy fields and the towers of the M48 or Severn bridge almost always in view.
Oldbury Power station, this is what i was heading towards.
The span of the Severn bridge is 1.03 miles from shore to shore with Beachley making up another 0.16 of a mile.
It took three-and-a-half years to construct at a cost of £8 million.
The bridge was opened on 8 September 1966, by Queen Elizabeth II.
St. Arilda's Church at Oldbury on Severn.
Oldbury Pill with Wales in distance.
Oldbury Nuclear Power Station now closed, it closed in 2012.
Oldbury was used as a filming location for Doctor Who, The Hand of Fear.
The rock band Slade recorded a performance for Top of the Pops inside one of the reactor buildings.Also the power station appeared in several episodes of Blake's 7 . WIKi
Had a sandwich and sit down for 10 mins here.
Following on the Severn Way the first hill of the day heading towards the Motorway service station.
From here i got the best views of the bridge.
The small white house is the old Beachley ferry terminal see here
Still a few Red Admirals about feeding on Ivy flower.
Made a slight detour from my planned route crossing over the top of the toll booths, the toll stands at £6.70 as of 2017.
I shall be driving underneath tomorrow morning on my way to Forest of Dean! Always good to get another perspective.
Followed on and soon back into Aust and where i parked,
I met these 2, it's halloween after all.
That's all folks a pleasant walk was some interesting points, next time .......watch this space
That's all for this week, join me again next week :)
You must have passed near the Littleton ringing station. I've only looked dat the views from Aunt services
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