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Dist:0.4km<br/>Thunder, lightning and heavy rain followed soon after on Billinge Hill as this storm closed in.
©Gary Rogers
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bridge over Black Brook on Rainford Road
©Raymond Knapman
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©Raymond Knapman
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©David Long
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.5km<br/>This bungalow, in a very attractive location, has laid empty and neglected for many years.
©Ian Greig
Dist:0.5km<br/>The picture is taken from the B5205 on the western edge of the grid square looking diagonally northeast across the square across Houghwood and Red Barn Farm towards Billinge Hill. The outline of a cat its tail being a path leading towards the hill can with some imagination be discerned in the wooded/gorse area on the hillside to the south west of Billinge Hill. The cat is most prominent in the reddish colours of autumn and hence the local name for the area and the name of a nearby pub.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.5km<br/>Ripening barley in the fields around Rainford Brook farm, Billinge.
©Gary Rogers
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.5km<br/>The wooded area is known locally as Crank Caverns. The trees on the horizon mark the site of a covered reservoir.
©Gary Rogers
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©Raymond Knapman
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©Raymond Knapman
Dist:0.5km<br/>The name is supposed to be indicative of the depth. Local explanations of the origin of this pool vary from an old mine shaft to an abandoned load of bombs after a wartime raid on Liverpool. My guess is that it's natural.
©Ian Greig
Dist:0.5km<br/>Billinge Hill from Crank
©Galatas

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