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Looking north east from the road junction on Upholland Road in the south western corner of the square.
©Gary Rogers
At the edge of Moss Wood near Winstanley College.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>Hesketh house once stood here. Remains of the old stonework can be found but the area is now the home to a mobile phone mast. Whatever happened to hesketh House?
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>Bluebells growing in a narrow strip of woodland that links Greenslate Water Meadows with Longshaw
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>Hesketh House once stood on this spot to the east of Upholland Road, Billinge. There's still some evidence of the outline of the perimeter of the building but now the site is overgrown and occupied by a mobile communication mast.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>On the morning of 5th January 2010 after an unusually heavy night of snow.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>after heavy snow (for these parts anyway) overnight.
©Gary Rogers
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.3km<br/>most of Billinge hospital's grounds lie in the adjacent square to the west but the pic shows the rear of the hospital from the abandoned field behind it. The Hospital closed in 2004 and all this area is planned for residential redevelopment.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>Park Road in Longshaw, Billinge. The OS map calls this track Park Road even though the surfaced road that it crosses is also called Park Road. The track leads to Moss House and Moss Wood.
©Gary Rogers
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>In woodland at Longshaw
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>The area around this stream that drains the surrounding fields and leads to Orrell Water Park has been extensively re-worked recently.
©Gary Rogers
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©Ian Greig
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©Gary Rogers

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