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Dist:0.2km<br/>On the slightly downhill approach to Brixham, the road curves right and then left. Here the picture shows the approach to the right hand bend. To locals, this is known as "Strawberry Bends", as strawberries were once sold at this point in the summer. To my knowledge this has not occurred during the last 30 years. This has also been an accident blackspot, usually caused by speeding. The road was narrowed some time ago to try to make it safer.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.2km<br/>After a cold winter, the daffodils are bursting into bloom.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.2km<br/>Daffodils rising up the bank on the way out of Brixham near Strawberry Bends are a cheering sight for the pedestrian or the cyclist on the shared footpath.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.3km<br/>Lupton House was the country mansion of Lord Churston. In 1990 it was the site of a boarding school, Gramercy Hall School, which closed in 2004. Starting in September 2002, Brixham Heritage Museum’s Field Research Team (led by Dr. Philip Armitage) has conducted excavations in the grounds, result of which can be seen here. http://www.brixhamheritage.org.uk/arch/2003.htm This photograph shows the imposing twin gatehouses alongside the main Paignton to Brixham road.
©Paul Hutchinson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken at the roadside on the way into Brixham opposite Lupton House entrance.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.4km<br/>It is encouraging to see this part of a bank on the way into Brixham near Lupton House entrance covered in daffodils as the rest of the year it is just grass and shrubby hedgerow.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along the southern edge of the copse in Lupton Park from a point where a permissive path enters it.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>This new track enables cyclists to avoid the very busy and fast main road into Brixham, which is below on the right of this picture. Some controversy has been generated by a local landowner who offered part of a field for the track at no cost to the Council in return for planning permission. This was not accepted and the landowner has now claimed that the cost of the new track was excessive and unnecessary. There is no doubt that this new short stretch off the road is a great improvement for cyclists and likely to encourage new ones.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.4km<br/>This new off road cycle path, rising up to the left in the picture, enables Brixham residents to cycle out of Brixham and back (this shows the way back)in reasonable safety. It is well landscaped, too. No traffic at 8 a.m. on a Sunday, but usually there is a constant stream of traffic travelling at speed. I see the cycle track as the route for the future - no fossil fuel used for short to medium journeys, just calories burned and health enhanced. Back to the future.
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.4km<br/>Southerly end of this village where it meets the Brixham main road. Churston Ferrers still retains some of its village identity and has not yet been swallowed up into the Torbay residential conurbation
©Crispin Purdye
Dist:0.5km<br/>A derelict building by the drive leading northwards from the house towards Barn Copse. The notice on the door says "Dogs must be kept on leads at all times"; this presumably does not refer merely to the structure's interior.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The permissive path across the park passes this pheasant feeder as it goes through a small patch of woodland between Windmill Copse and Barn Copse (ahead across the field).
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Northerly view along the main residential road in this village
©Crispin Purdye
Dist:0.6km<br/>A similar view to [[1189289]], on a brighter winter's day. The building is described at http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-383550-gramercy-hall-school-lupton-house-brixha . There are plans to create a 'community enterprise village' on the site.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.6km<br/>The country house was occupied by Gramercy Hall School, which closed some years ago. Originally built in about 1772 and remodelled since, it was rebuilt after a fire in 1926. Architectural details are at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=383550&mode=adv . Seen from a permissive path crossing the park north of Windmill Copse.
©Derek Harper

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