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Dist:0.2km<br/>In the part of Bristol called Ridgeway, on the A432 (Fishponds Road), looking WNW. The junction with the B4048 is next to the tall cream coloured building visible above the traffic island. The turning immediately on the right (at bottom of picture) is into Alcove Road at its western-most end.
©Colin S Pearson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Heading north east toward Fishponds and Downend. The corner shop with the yellow frontage is at the end of Ridgeway Road. The trees are London planes, planted around 1900. They lose their bark in patches each year, at one time it was an annual event for concerned persons to write letters to the local papers complaining of "vandals stripping the bark and why do the police do nothing about it." The following is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_plane "The London plane is very tolerant of atmospheric pollution and root compaction, and for this reason it is a popular urban roadside tree." and "The London Plane is a large deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (exceptionally over 40 m) tall, with a trunk up to 3 m or more in circumference. The bark is usually pale grey-green, smooth and exfoliating, or buff-brown and not exfoliating. The leaves are thick and stiff-textured, broad, palmately lobed, superficially maple-like, the leaf blade 10–20 cm long and 12–25 cm broad, with a petiole 3–10 cm long. The young leaves in spring are coated with minute, fine, stiff hairs at first, but these wear off and by late summer the leaves are hairless or nearly so. The flowers are borne in one to three (most often two) dense spherical inflorescences on a pendulous stem, with male and female flowers on separate stems. The fruit matures in about 6 months, to 2–3 cm diameter, and comprises a dense spherical cluster of achenes with numerous stiff hairs which aid wind dispersal; the cluster breaks up slowly over the winter to release the numerous 2–3 mm seeds."
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Yellow sign on the right explains that this car park will be closed from October 2010 for 12 months.
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>Viewed from a path in Eastville Park
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>At the end of Alexandra Park. The car park is currently closed.
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>Leading to Channon's Hill.
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>Approaching and estate cul-de-sac called Colston Dale from Eastville Park. A steep climb out of the valley formed by a small brook. The brooks sweetish smell indicative of an urban stream feed from surface drains, reminded me of a childhood spent making dams in the stream through [[938173]]
©David Lally
Dist:0.5km<br/>An estate cul-de-sac in the Meadowseet area. In the distance is the steeple of [[141784]].
©David Lally
Dist:0.6km<br/>Closed pub on Fishponds Road, next to a large Morrison's supermarket.
©David Lally
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking west at the end of Drummond Road. A No.48 First Direct bus from Emersons Green and Downend heads toward Eastville and the city centre.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Now in the grounds of the Glenside Campus of the University of the West of England (UWE) the former Stapleton Asylum Church (later Bristol Mental Hospital, and before its closure Glenside Hospital) is a picturesque Victorian Gothic structure and is now in use as the museum with artefacts from the former hospital. It is open on Weds and Sat mornings, free admission.
©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.7km<br/>Pub on Fishponds Road, opposite Morrisons. The building next door was photographed by a fellow geographer a few days earlier [[2535061]].
©David Lally
Dist:0.7km<br/>On Fishponds Road; now residential.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.8km<br/>In Eastville Park.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.8km<br/>On Fishponds Road.
©Mike Faherty

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