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©Trevor Harris
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©Trevor Harris
Dist:0.3km<br/>Not yet derelict, this pair of houses seem to have been deserted for at least one growing season. Remarkably, the short access lane from Dry Street is provided with street lamps, one of which leans in the foreground.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.4km<br/>A beacon and radio mast in Westley Heights Country Park, two contrasting communications systems. The efficiency of the beacon must be doubted, since although it appears otherwise, it is surrounded on all sides by much taller trees!
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.4km<br/>There is a carpet of bluebells in early May each year in this part of the wood.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.4km<br/>The beacon in the centre is below the height of the surrounding trees and cannot be seen outside this field.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.4km<br/>All this technology and infrastructure so we can be told “I’m On The Train!”
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km<br/>On Langdon Hills and near Westley Heights, this pub is now part of the Harvester chain.
©Trevor Harris
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©Mick Clifton
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the entrance to Westley Heights Country Park. The weatherboarded pub in the background was the Crown but all external traces of that seem to have been erased. At 110m above sea level you will have to go a long way to find another pub at this altitude.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km<br/>The pink sacks contain paper, card, cans and plastics bottles while the orange crates are reserved for glass. This house in Lee Chapel Lane is doing its bit for recycling.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.6km<br/>The only indication of ownership or purpose of the large white tower behind locked gates. However, the building is a water tower which Gridcom rent from the water company for their aerials.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.6km<br/>A water tower owned by Essex and Suffolk Water supplying Langdon Hills. It has been adapted into a communications unit for tv, radio, mobile phones and similar systems at high point on the B1007.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.6km<br/>Bluebells brighten a hillside in Westley Heights Country Park.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.6km<br/>Local residents have closed off the entrance to their private road off Dry Street, claiming unauthorised horse riders have caused it to deteriorate.
©William Metcalfe

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