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Seen from its junction with Bankside Lane, Newchurch Old Road, although narrow, looks driveable, but motorised access is not really possible beyond Huttock Top Farm, where there is a small car park for visitors to 'Animal Quackers', a sort of children's zoo. Drivers of 4x4 vehicles may imagine they can make further progress beyond here, but this is possible for only about 100 yards to a point where the Old Road has become completely filled with vegetation, and even pedestrians have to leave the 'road' and walk along a footpath over the rough moorland ground alongside.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This brilliant show of foxgloves shows that wildflowers can provide just as attractive display as cultivated varieties. Photographed in an untended garden at the end of Newchurch Old Road.
©Dr Neil Clifton
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©robert wade
Dist:0.2km<br/>At 867227 a right of way crosses Bankside Lane; to the west it is a public bridleway, and gives access to Maden Recreation Ground. It appears to be perfectly passable, but I have never seen a horse on it.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Bankside Lane is a quiet and peaceful place to live, as there is no through traffic - no vehicular exit at the southern end is physially possible, so effectively it is a long cul-de-sac. Even the northern entrance is up a steep and twisty hill, so no cars come up here unless they need to.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The eastern arm of the right of way which crosses Bankside Lane at 867227 has no bridleway rights and is a footpath only; it appears very overgrown. If passage is possible, it would emerge onto Plantation Street and Market Street.
©Dr Neil Clifton
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©robert wade
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Now in private ownership
©robert wade
Dist:0.3km<br/>On a day when schoolteachers were on strike, I would have expected there to be lots of children here enjoying their freedom: apart from one solitary pensioner practising his bowls, the entire place was deserted.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>The houses seen beyond are Bankside Terrace, a have separate access.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This house was originally built for the Supervisor of the Maden Recreation Grounds. It is now privately occupied.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>On the day of the schoolteachers and other public services strike, the sole occupant of Maden recreation ground was one solitary pensioner, practising his bowls on the flat green.
©Dr Neil Clifton
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©David Dixon

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