Gloucestershire in pictures: Sunny skies and lavender

Maddie Simpson
Journalist
SantaSusie Sunrise at Berkeley with an orange sky across fields of grass and a sepia tone across the image. SantaSusie

Yet another heat wave hit Gloucestershire this week - and the views have been beautiful.

We have seen golden hours, charity walks and fields and fields of lavender. Take a browse through some of our favourite moments of the week in this corner of the world.

Rows of lavender in the field.

Golden hour: What a beautiful start to any day! This photo was taken at the start of the day this week at Berkeley by our weather watcher, SantaSusie.

Nothing beats a sunny Gloucestershire morning, does it?

Wild flowers on a large scale.

Among the wildflowers: What a stunning view at Cotswold Lavender. It is now peak season for them as visitors from all over the world come flooding in.

They opened up early this year because of the heat. It meant that the lavender came out early so they had to get the gates open slightly earlier than normal.

A lady waving a flag and people cheering in the background as someone walks off the screen.

One foot in front of the other: GWR colleagues have been walking up and down Gloucester train station's platform through the night in pairs to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK and support colleagues living with the disease.

Still Photo Malone A brick dome with swirly lights in the sky surrounding it. Still Photo Malone

Clever work: This picture — taken by photographer Still Photo Malone — is essentially lots of photos stacked on top of each other, 217 photos to be exact, with a 30-second exposure on each.

The photos were taken over a two hour period between midnight and 0200 BST at the Old Severn Railway Bridge.

Martyn Carrington An aerial view of the construction of a new road seen from the yellow biplane.Martyn Carrington

Up in the clouds: This is how the Missing Link project is looking on the A417 - taken from a 1940s Boeing Stearman biplane by Martyn Carrington.

The £460m scheme will end up being a three-mile dual carriageway between Gloucester and Cirencester.

Stormin Orange sky and flowers in front of the lens.Stormin

Never enough: We are loving the sunrise photos this week. Look at this sky in Colesbourne earlier this week.