66559 passes Baulking with the 6B11 12:30 Thorney Mill to Pengam empty stone hoppers on 24 March 2009. To anyone visiting this rural spot today with its handful of farms and cottages, it is hard to imagine that several hundred years ago it was a much more important settlement with a thriving market. Perhaps the last straw was when the Great Western Railway removed part of the village's large green to make way for their pioneering line to Bristol in the 1840s! |