Lacock, Wiltshire

Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4D lens. f/11.

A ha ha is a ditch with a wall on its inner side below ground level, forming a boundary to a park or garden without interrupting the view. Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4D lens. f/11.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4D lens. f/5.6.

St. Cyriac's, Lacock. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens.

Lacock, Wiltshire. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens.

It is thrillingly octagonal. Nikon D700 + Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

This friendly cat frequents the grounds of Lacock Abbey. Nikon D700 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Canon EOS 40D + Canon 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 EF USM lens.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire: The Brew House. The Brew House, as it is known, in the courtyard of Lacock Abbey was one of the additions made by Sir William Sharington when he acquired the building in 1539. Previously Lacock was a monastery. It was secularised after the Reformation. People of the sixteenth century drank beer in preference to water because it was safer. The Brew House was sympathetically restored during the 1970s, having lain derelict for many years. The equipment would still be capable of brewing beer if desired, but it would not be to the standards of the modern brewing industry. However reviled some of today’s makers of beer have the misfortune to be, the absence of hygiene would not be a criticism they would expect to endure. Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.

Trees on a misty morning photographed at Lacock Abbey with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens on a Canon EOS 20D SLR.

Close up of the bridge over Bide Brook, Lacock, Wiltshire. Nikon D2Xs and 135mm f/2.8 Nikkor. 100 ISO, f/5.6, 1/20th sec.

St. Cyriac's at Lacock, Wiltshire.

Photographed at Lacock Abbey, with a Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro and a Nikkor 35mm DX AF-S f/1.8G lens.

Described in the National Trust leaflet handed to visitors to Lacock Abbey as 'Rockworks: Romantic ruins of an eighteenth century folly'. However, more recently (2015) the Head Gardener of Lacock Abbey has reported some repairs to the rockworks are being undertaken and has indicated that the structure was built in 1740 and formed part of a system of water gardens which were later destroyed (no reason for the ruination is supplied). Originally water flowed through an arch over a stone cascade, but after flooding in the village during the 20th century, the water was diverted to drop its level by over a metre. Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.