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Cotch: Brean Down

This entry was posted in cotch dot net and tagged brean brean down bristol channel coastal good locations hills locations photography rural somerset uk westcountry on March 1, 2011 by Joe

A great limestone scarp runs the breadth of Somerset, the Mendip Hills, famous for their karst landscape — the gorge at Cheddar and the caves at Wookey Hole. Continue reading at cotch dot net…

AWWTM: Shared space in Portishead

This entry was posted in at war with the motorist and tagged bristol drachten groningen netherlands portishead shared space somerset street furnature traffic lights urban planning westcountry on September 5, 2010 by Joe

Every journalist and cycling campaign group can cite one great example of a town where the simple switching off of every set of traffic lights has transformed it overnight into a transport utopia: Drachten, half way between Amsterdam and Groningen in the Netherlands. Here in the UK, Drachten’s experiment is […]