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Photo taken from Mercote Hall Lane.
©Simon Jobson
This part of the quarry workings falls in grid square SP2380 but the photo was taken from SP2280, from a bend on Mercote Hall Lane.
©Simon Jobson
This photo was taken near the junction of Mercote Hall Lane with Cornet End Lane. Just visible right in the centre of the photo, above two hedges and to the left of the prominent tree, are the quarry workings which have encroached on this square and which dominate the squares north and west.
©Simon Jobson
Autumn in Cornetts End Lane near Berkswell
©Telf
The bleached cut stalks make rape fields look white from a distance. The ground is green with rape seedlings.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.2km<br/>The footpath past Mercote Mill Farm to Cornets End is diverted at its southern end from a point on Mercote Hall Lane near Park Farm. Here it is squeezed between a hedge and a bund on the eastern side of Coleman's sand and gravel quarry. Left of centre is a tower for (presumably) washing and grading the material. Its location appears to be SP23008127. Judging by old maps, Mercote Hall was a country house at approximately SP224801; possibly an old manor house. It appears on OS maps of 1887 and 1904 but only one range of buildings is present from OS 1937 up to 1986. A local resident believed the site had been used to hold prisoners of war, but did not know which war. There is nothing on the site nor on the map now. The small parcel of woodland south-southwest of modern Mercote Mill Farm is the site of the grounds of Mercote Hall. It was sometime part of the Berkswell Hall estate.
©Robin Stott
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©Keith Williams
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©Keith Williams
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the eastern boundary of Coleman & Co's extensive sand and gravel site. Compare [[50315]]
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.3km<br/>In the distance beyond the farm building is Hampton in Arden.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.3km<br/>This break in the perimeter bund close to Mercote Hall Lane is on the eastern side of Coleman's sand and gravel quarry. In the absence of readily-accessible information my guess is that this land has been worked and restored; equally it may be fallow land awaiting exploitation. To the right is one of two towers for (presumably) washing and grading the material. Its location appears to be SP23008127.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.4km<br/>This footpath starting in Cornets End Lane leads on to various parts of Meriden
©Jim Read
Dist:0.4km<br/>A property of the Berkswell estate.
©Robin Stott
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©Robin Stott
Dist:0.5km<br/>Various warning signs face the footpath from Cornets End Lane, eg, Danger Razor Wire, though none was seen. The chainlink fence had been breached and knitted back together. The extensive quarry is operated by Coleman & Co.
©Robin Stott

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