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Dist:0.4km north<br/>The very northern edge of built-up London here, where the houses end and the countryside begins. This view was taken looking north westwards from the end of Warrens Shawe Lane. There is a large stream flowing in the bottom of the valley which the Ordnance Survey, for some reason, ignores on both the 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Viewed looking north westwards from Edgwarebury Lane.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km north<br/>A line of hills lies to the north of London, of which Deacons Hill is one. This has long presented a challenge to those building transport links to the north of the capital. The Roman Road, Watling Street skirts Deacon Hill a mile to the west; the Midland main line tunnels directly underneath and the M1 approaches beside the railway before turning sharply west and crossing at the point chosen by the Romans.
©David Squire
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Viewed looking north eastwards, the idyllic rural scene is somewhat marred by the noise from the M1 Motorway just beyond the trees at the top of the hill.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km south<br/>Viewed looking northwards.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The Shell garage at the site viewed looking northwards.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.9km southeast<br/>The services formerly known as Scratchwood...
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km south<br/>Viewed looking northwards from the junction with Parsons Grove. Photography by Darth Vader.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.4km northwest<br/>Overnight dusting in an affluent area of Elstree.
©Vijay Shah
Dist:1.5km north<br/>Academy Court and Footbridge at Elstree & Borehamwood Station in centre. Byron Avenue towards front of picture. Taken September 2004.
©Andy Frary
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>View from the forecourt of the service station Across the A411. Opposite is a Harvester. The police car is attending a minor accident on the roundabout.
©Martin Addison
Dist:1.6km northeast<br/>A sign tells you where you are as you leave the garage.
©Martin Addison
Dist:1.6km southwest<br/>These odd brick remains in the fields east of what is now the A41 Edgware Way are the only surviving civil engineering reminders of the proposed extension of London Underground's Northern Line beyond Edgware to Bushey Heath. The extension was proposed as part of the 1935 - 1940 New Works programme. A reserved corridor for the railway was left between the housing developments north of Edgware station and this viaduct was constructed to carry the railway over low ground near Edgwarebury Brook and up to Brockley Hill. However the onset of the Second World War brought a halt to construction and after the war the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act gave Green Belt status to all the open land north of Edgware which had previously been earmarked for housing. Without the housing it was thought that the railway would have had little traffic and little purpose and the proposed extension to Bushey Heath was truncated to a station at Brockley Hill in 1950, and the entire plan was abandoned in 1953. The reserved corridor was then sold off for housing and the infill estates of Campbell Croft, Shelley Close, and Sterling Avenue in Edgware were built. The viaduct itself has gradually crumbled away leaving only the brick piers and short sections of the arches beyond the springer points, as visible in this image.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.6km east<br/>This is a park with priority given to the scout movement
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.7km north<br/>
©Andy Frary

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