Looking east-south-east near Castle Ring Lodge, this footpath leads along the base of the outer embankment of the Iron Age hill fort. Some maps still mark this as a byway open to all traffic. Whether ...
There has been fairly significant changes in the area, with new points starting to form, but Far Point being eroded. Access to this area is normally restricted, due to breeding birds in summer and ...
The Royal Gunpowder Mills consists of 170 acres and contains 19 listed buildings. It has been described as the most important site for the history of explosives in Europe. It dates from the Civil War ...
The park today occupies an area of 9.28 hectares, which is about one tenth of its original size. The Grotto is situated in the south-east corner of the park. It was built in about 1724 as one of the ...
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Yopps Green is north of Plaxtol, on the way to Borough Green. The half-timbered house is called White Beam. All images in TQ6053, taken Sunday, 15 September, 2024, by Marathon, near to Plaxtol, Kent, ...
Text © Copyright September 2024, Roy Hughes; licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Licence.
The 13th-century church, standing on the site of two older churches, was restored in the late 19th century and again after a serious fire in 1906. The church overlooks the rear lawns of Preston Manor.
Most land between Dunfermline and the M90 has now been filled in, but this derelict field, well serviced by a roundabout and surrounded by collapsing Heras fencing has yet to be built upon.
At Tyrley top lock the Shropshire Union Canal completes its climb out of the Cheshire Plain: with the exception of a single lock at Wheaten Aston, it is level all the way from here to its south end ...