Glastonbury Abbey duck pond

What a buty of a shot Amelia from that Glaston place on title :))

Saved in fav's by me

Best wishes ... Steve

Glastonbuty Avvey was rather special, Steve, and this little duct pind was so claming. Typo now corrected. ;-)
Thank you.

A very attractive shot, Amelia. You were no doubt waiting for it, so I feel no shame in being the first to ask whether this duck house is one of those famous tax-deducktable ones.

Definitely tax deducktible, Andy. The monies were used to buy more herbs to cure various mallardies.

The first monks were Catholic and couldn't eat meat on a Friday. The abbeys had fish ponds and stocked them with carp for the table. I presume this was the original fish pond that supplied fresh fish to the monks before the Abbey was dissolved. The carp were not native to England and were brought in from the continent. There is an old rhyme that goes hops and barley, carps and beer were brought into England all in a year.

The Fishpond is separate there... I gave Amelia the link www.ipernity.com/doc/pamj/22274485 and the Carp info yesterday. Coincidence !

Beautiful place !

Looke like a very quiet and peaceful place; well taken.

Such a lovely place, Amelia ! Have a nice week !

You show what we missed on our visit to the abbey! I wish I had taken the time to see the pond...