A STUNNING new floral display has been added to a popular Swindon park.
The flower bed installed on the grass near the main entrance to Coate Water to mark the beauty spot's 200th anniversary looks rather different now.
Purple and white flowers have been arranged to create the royal crest of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Photographer Royston Cartwright noticed the eye-catching pattern.
He said: "The gardeners have done another wonderful job and even though not all the flowers are out, yet you can see the beauty of it.
"Walk up past the flower bed and you come to the plaque that commemorates the lady that did so much to promote the Richard Jefferies Museum.
"The stones along the road, now used to stop people parking there, are remnants from the Bronze Age Sarsen Megaliths that formed two circles in Day House Lane which had a diameter of 69 metres, with well over 30 stones in them.
"They can be found all over Coate. Some say that two of the complete ones are at the bottom of the lake - that would be a great find if it were true!
"There is so much more to Coate Water than just the lake."
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