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This road is neither a horseshoe or a crescent, being a wiggly cul-de-sac. But I suppose it is more memorable than some of the names given to modern housing estate roads.
©Graham Horn
A modern house, but built in the local brick and flint style. Burghfield Common is a rapidly expanding commuter village.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>The ford is now closed off to all except pedestrians and cyclists. I do not know if this is to be a permanent closure. Compare this to Pam Brophy's picture [[[22986]]] taken four years earlier.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>The ford is now closed off to all except pedestrians and cyclists. I do not know if this is to be a permanent state of affairs, but Ash Lane beyond is getting very overgrown.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>This ford is marked on the map, in the north western section (near the centre of the square). The square is about half village and half farmland.
©Pam Brophy
Dist:0.4km<br/>Erected in 1881. Now converted into a private residence.
©Michael FORD
Dist:0.5km<br/>The greengrocers, the bakery and the pet food shop, a choice for everyone. Behind, the building appears to be a telephone exchange judging by the number of attached wires.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>One of the first generation of covered forecourts, still run independently, before the big three oil companies started building their mega-forecourts.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>Currently being extended.
©Michael Robinson
Dist:0.6km<br/>A view over a cereal crop towards the western suburbs of Reading.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of the many modern housing estate roads in this rapidly expanding commuter village.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.6km<br/>Tucked just off the main Reading road.
©Michael Robinson
Dist:0.7km<br/>This field is in the south western section of the square. The view is on a bearing of more or less north west along the road.
©Pam Brophy
Dist:0.7km<br/>Shortly before being rebuilt.
©Michael Robinson
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Michael Robinson

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