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This is the gate to Paddock Copse, nearly 3 acres of new woods were planted by the Woodland Trust as part of their “woods on your doorstep” programme see http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/our-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=5041&site=Paddock-Copse for more information
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is Paddock Copse, nearly 3 acres of new woods were planted by the Woodland Trust as part of their “woods on your doorstep” programme see http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/our-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=5041&site=Paddock-Copse for more information (I sampled a couple of the blackberries and they were some of the tastiest I have ever come across)
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is Paddock Copse, nearly 3 acres of new woods were planted by the Woodland Trust as part of their “woods on your doorstep” programme see http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/our-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=5041&site=Paddock-Copse for more information. The flowers are Common Fleabane (Puilcaria dysenterica)
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the guardhouse to RAF Canewdon in Gardner’s Lane it is now a private property called “Rosewood”. The site was part of the chain home radar system from WW2 that was used for many years after. However this site closed not long after the end of the war. The aerial masts were sited to the north. One of the masts was bought by Marconi and still exists. See [[TL7203]] A second mast was also reused somewhere on the Welsh coast although in cut down form. There are some that think the site was used into the cold war for some reason see http://www.ukcoldwar.org.uk/index-can.asp
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.3km<br/>[[903981]] Gardiners Lane Pillbox in Canewdon features a rare mount for what I believe was a Vickers pompom AA gun. See the other shot for more information and another view. There are many pillboxes around here, built to guard the former radar site on the same road. Unfortunately someone has put a tyre over the AA turret. A friend of mine tried to pull it off, but it is stuck fast. This pillbox is very rare.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.3km<br/>Unusual type of pillbox situated at Gardiners Lane, Canewdon, with a Vickers quick-firing anti-aircraft gun emplacement on top. It would have formed part of the defences around Canewdon radar station during the war. This type of pillbox is extremely rare.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.4km<br/>Canewdon can, as a small village and not that far from larger places, count itself lucky that its post office still survives. It is incorporated within one of the village stores, which are diagonally opposite one another. A long-disused stamp vending machine is affixed to the wall of the shop, extreme right.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>I had thought this pub was still in operation, but then discovered the notice outside: the "former Chequers Inn" subject to an application for conversion to a dwelling house.
©Trevor Harris
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along the High Street from the corner of Anchor Lane (left) which clearly is named after the pub on the corner.
©Chris Downer
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©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the eastern end of High Street. Taken from the corner of Lambourne End Road and Anchor Lane.
©David Kemp
Dist:0.5km<br/>A tiny pathside pond, currently completely dry.
©John Myers
Dist:0.5km<br/>The other pub in the village, also on the Roach Valley Way.
©John Myers
Dist:0.5km<br/>Near Canewdon Wick
©John Myers
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of two pubs in the village, both on the Roach Valley Way.
©John Myers

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