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Dist:0.2km<br/>
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Well designed in the 70s and 80s, with cul-de-sacs linked by footpaths running across large landscaped areas, this part of the vast Beaumont Leys estate still has a run down feel.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>A small amenity area created from old farm buildings tries to create an attractive focal point with some success for this part of the Beaumont Leys estate. There is a small market square with a few shops up the steps to the right.
©Kate Jewell
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©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.8km<br/>This road is the main artery through several large industrial estates which spread into the next square west.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.8km<br/>The centre of Stocking Farm is approximately 90 metres above sea level and there are fantastic views east, across the city centre.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:1.0km<br/>At the junction of Somerset Avenue and Wiltshire Road.
©Mat Fascione
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Photographed from its junction with Burnham Drive.
©Mat Fascione
Dist:1.0km west<br/>
©Steve Fareham
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Photograph taken from Gorse Hill City Farm car park to give an elevated view of the roofscape of this estate. The trees are on the edge of Blackbird Road playing fields which dominate the NW quarter of the featured square. Anstey Lane just clips the square in the foreground.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:1.1km east<br/>The Ivy covered remains of the original GCR bridge. If the heritage line is to realise its goal of extending a mile south to Abbey pumping station and the space centre then this will be rebuilt.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:1.1km west<br/>This large shopping centre is to the NW of the Leicester outer ring road. The residential areas that it serves are in several squares to the SE.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:1.2km east<br/>The area in the foreground once hosted a massive embankment, taking the GCR railway into Leicester. The railway plans in the future to extend a mile to the space centre and Abbey pumping station. The embankment and a bridge will have to be built.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:1.2km south<br/>
©Alex McGregor

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