To the north of Ross on Wye is a large meander of the River Wye that embraces Foy and Sellack. This loop of the river has a couple of "sub-loops", meanders that, in the fullness of time, and with the absence of the efforts of man to stop it, may become small, detached "ox-bow" lakes. At the moment the usual deposition of a pebble shoal is taking place on the inside of the meander whilst opposite (from where I took this photograph) the river is cutting into the bank. The thirteen or so acres of land is a common with a number of people able to exercise common rights there such as grazing animals, fishing, extracting stone from the river etc. The common is also designated "open access" land over which the general public have the "right to roam". On the day we visited red Hereford cattle were dotted across the common.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
