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Dist:0.2km<br/>A frustrated allotment holder resorting to irony to make a point about fly tipping at the entrance to Islip allotments.
©Michael Trolove
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©David Purchase
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©Peter Whatley
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking south-east down Lowick Road to the Rose & Crown PH (closed at present) which stands at the junction of Mill Road and High Street. The Nene Way footpath goes down the pub garden.
©Will Lovell
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.7km<br/>The footpath runs through a field that has been taken on as a garden extension, hence the close cut grass.
©Michael Trolove
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.7km<br/>No doubt waiting for the developers hand to craft some much needed tlc.
©Michael Trolove
Dist:0.7km<br/>The Church has American connections - in the chancel is a monument to Mary Washington, whose husband John was uncle of the John Laurence Washington who sailed to America in 1657, becoming the great-granfather of the President.
©Will Lovell
Dist:0.8km<br/>Viewed from High street.
©Michael Trolove
Dist:0.8km<br/>Privately owned. This view is from the river side, upstream.
©David Bartlett
Dist:0.8km<br/>The mill is now a private house.
©Will Lovell
Dist:0.9km<br/>This farm track leads to Colpman's Farm (centre middle distance) and this part of it is shared by the footpath to Islip. This was once a stiff climb for the small locomotives of the Islip Iron Co (later Stewarts & Lloyd's). In Eric Tonks' "The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands, Part 5: The Kettering Area" there is a 1950 photograph of a train of loaded wagons climbing this gradient with a hard-working locomotive at each end. Opencast quarries active in the first third of the 20th century were to the right. Iron ore quarrying in this part of East Northamptonshire resulted from the opening of the Midland Railway Kettering-Thrapston line in 1866. The Islip Ironworks (now the site of the industrial estate in gridsquare [[SP9678]]) opened in 1873, supplied by opencast quarries (and later mines) at Slipton, Twywell, Lowick and Sudborough. The ore was brought to the furnaces by 3ft-gauge steam railways. The quarries and tramways at Lowick and Sudborough were in use for about fifty years until closure of the last pits in 1952. For pictures of railway and quarry vestiges in Slipton, see [[SP9479]] and [[SP9579]]].
©John Sutton
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©Peter Whatley

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