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Hotwells and Rownham Ferry (painting)

an oil painting on canvas, showing: a ferry boat carrying people, a horse and a dog, arriving at the New Inn on the Somerset side of the River Avon, having departed from the Rownham Tavern on the Gloucestershire side; a ferry crossed this part of the River Avon since at least the 1100s, and a building originally known as Passage House existed on the Somerset side from at least 1746, which later became the New Inn; a vessel is seen in the distance, passing the old Hotwell House

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