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Dist:0.3km<br/>Judging by the brick & cement works surrounding this lake it was created by opencast quarrying of clay and/or gravel. It seemed eerily devoid of wildlife - perhaps they're put off by the stink of smoke and chemicals that pervades the air around these parts.

©Rob Farrow

Dist:0.7km<br/>Long standing terrace of cottages just to the left of the image

©Dennis simpson

Dist:0.7km<br/>This is the same lake seen in [[[155598]]] but taken a little further north along the B530 (Hardwick Hill). Still no sign of wildlife - nor any improvement in the smell !
On the far side of the lake can just be discerned the monumentally vast warehouses of square [[TL0245]]
This is not the most beautiful corner of our "Green and pleasant land" !

©Rob Farrow

Dist:0.9km<br/>At Kempston Hardwick

©Dennis simpson

Dist:1.3km northwest<br/>A Bletchley to Bedford train passing the new industrial units near Kempston Hardwick.

©Martin Loader

Dist:1.4km east<br/>Wilstead Industrial Estate dominates this square and there is very little of anything pleasing on the eye except for the odd plant which is in the foreground of the picture.
The estate is an adaption of an ordnance factory opened after the start of WW2. This is the reason for the many separated buildings and earthworks visible on the maps of the area.

©michael wilson

Dist:1.5km southeast<br/>Track to Little Thickthorn Farm

©Dennis simpson

Dist:1.5km southeast<br/>Corrugated iron buildings close to Little Thickthorn Farm

©Dennis simpson

Dist:1.6km south<br/>The Midland mainline railway runs through an area of clay which has been extracted for many decades to be made into bricks at Stewartby. Clay is now being extracted by two large draglines to the east of the railway. The brick works are the other side and clay is transported to the works by a covered conveyor - crossing the mid-line of the photo.

©M J Richardson

Dist:1.6km north<br/>Of no particular merit apart from the fact that it was in a square that had not been photographed. I arrived a day too late - this is the same field as [[549874]].

©M J Richardson

Dist:1.7km southwest<br/>from level crossing looking towards Stewartby Brickworks. You can see the kiln chimneys smoking

©Marcus de Figueiredo

Dist:1.7km southwest<br/>

©Marcus de Figueiredo

Dist:1.7km north<br/>By the A421 Dual Carriageway; Marsh Leys Industrial Estate in the distance. The London Bedford Railway Line follows the line of trees across the middle of the picture.

©ian saunders

Dist:1.7km northwest<br/>

©John Yaxley

Dist:1.7km west-northwest<br/>

©Sebastian Ballard

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