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The view from Old Widdicombe Lane, Blagdon. This is a quiet, rural valley on the outskirts of Paignton.
©Richard Knights
A pair of semi-detached cottages set against Buttshill Copse. The lane runs along the side of the Blagdon valley to meet Blagdon Road. On the horizon is Hunter's Court, a recent development at Barton Pines.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Seen from Bell Lane near Middle Blagdon. Fields rise beside the back of the woodland that can be seen on the right of [[758149]]. The left-hand tranmission mast at Beacon Hill is just inside the square.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>A tractor climbs the steep gradient (not shown on OS maps) to [[758142]], passing an old stone barn.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view of [[758149]] from Old Widdicombe Lane. Old Widdicombe Road passes the barn and continues below Buttshill Copse to Higher Blagdon.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken from close to [[758311]]. On the left is the edge of the small wood seen on the right of [[759029]], with cattle grazing on the eastern slopes of the valley. Beyond are the farm buildings at [[758794]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Morning sunlight floods the wood, which is also seen in [[1188131]]. Below is [[758149]]. Taken from a gateway on Old Widdicombe Road 40 metres south of [[759038]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>The western of the valleys below the mini-col, that is, completing a reverse S bend as it turns southeast past Blagdon. On the left is [[758149]], with Tongue Ridge Plantation above it. On the right is the small mixed wood seen in [[758752]]. From the same spot as [[758823]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking from Old Widdicombe Lane down the valley shown in [[1188111]] as it skirts the copse and passes [[758149]] on the left.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view from Old Widdicombe Road, from the same spot as [[1185335]], the contents of which are included. So too is part of [[759038]], where the van is parked, Tongue Ridge Plantation above it, and Higher Ramshill Lane slanting down to the right. The large field in the foreground, shown in [[758241]], has yet to be ploughed.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view from the hilltop junction down the field whose far end is shown in [[758029]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking in the opposite direction to [[759029]], with [[758149]] in the foreground now in the shadow of the hillside, and [[758823]] to the left. The farm at Higher Blagdon is on the right.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>See [[758142]]. Perhaps I lied claiming it was impossible to photograph. All five lanes are visible in this image, taken from a few metres up the track to Beacon Hill. The view forshortens the distance between the two parts of the junction, from which valleys fall away on both sides. The farm at Higher Blagdon can be seen in the background.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>See [[758142]]. This view includes four of the five routes that meet here. Taken from Old Widdicombe Road, arriving from the southeast. On the right are Higher Ramshill Lane and the track up Beacon Hill, with the transmission masts above Tongue Ridge Plantation. Old Widdicombe Lane, the lane along the lower edge of the plantation, leads up to the Totnes Road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Not the prettiest of names, overlooked by a dark conifer plantation, and impossible to photograph, but my favourite road junction anywhere! Four lanes and a track meet here at a little col between steep valleys. This image merely shows two of them, the track (followed by a footpath to Marldon) climbing to the left up to Beacon Hill, and [[758118]].
©Derek Harper

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