Friday, 23 August 2013

Windsor castle - and Long Walk

The Long Walk in Great (deer) Park - with deer



Anyone in the UK, and many people abroad , will know OF Windsor Castle - and some will know of Windsor Great Park - because of their Royal and historical associations. Thousands of visitors will go to Windsor this Bank Holiday weekend, many day-trippers from London. Little you know of in advance can prepare you for the size and impact of the arrangement - truly on a landscape scale. The directness of the  "Great Walk" from the centre of the Great park emphasises the power of the castle - which forms a barrier to the westward expansion of urban sprawl of London and its satellite commuter towns. But if we got rid of the monarchy, what would we do with this?
Windsor-Castle-England
To castle from the Great Park http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0c/0d/64/0c0d64a5a7bfcb1c8b620a8f8f6bade2.jpg

Quite different but no-less impressive from the Thames - the way most monarchs would have visited in the past
From the Thames original file
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