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This very large wheatfield on the south side of Sandy Lane has an ancient hedgerow running through part of it. The wheat is ripening early due to the chronic lack of rain.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.2km<br/>Presumed to home to a fox, judging by the dog-like paw prints. The racetrack called Sandy Lane runs behind the hedge.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from a triangulation pillar. North Leamington is in the distance.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.2km<br/>OS Explorer shows a mosaic of small fields here: photographed from the Sandy Lane railway bridge while waiting for a train.
©Robin Stott
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©AJD
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking north from the footpath near to the railway line which is behind the trees on the left. The trees and hedgeline in the middle distance mark the route of Sandy Lane.
©David P Howard
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from the north-west corner of New Milverton allotments. Features of this landscape are hedges in various states of repair, punctuated by big old hedgerow oaks.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.3km<br/>A frequent sight on this road - it's probably on the test route.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.3km<br/>The informal footpath joins the public footpath between Bamburgh Grove and Old Milverton Road [[1534033]]
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking towards Leamington Spa on the Coventry - Leamington line.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking NNW from the footpath bridge along the line of the railway towards the Sandy Lane bridge.
©David P Howard
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©AJD
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east along the footpath from just off Old Milverton Road, over the railway bridge.
©David P Howard
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking towards the bridge over the River Avon along the arrow straight, but undulating, Leamington Spa - Coventry line. This railway has had an interesting history. It was originally built in 1844 and doubled in 1884 when the branch to Berkswell was built. For many years it was essentially an LNWR, later LMS, branch line. In the mid-1950s there was a reasonably frequent local service between Nuneaton and Leamington Spa, with the odd through train from Birmingham, serving intermediate stations at Kenilworth and Leamington Spa (Milverton). That all changed in 1965 when the passenger service was withdrawn and the line singled as a freight-only route. The building of Birmingham International station in 1976 forced a rethink and long distance passenger services were rerouted this way between the south coast, Thames valley and Birmingham, also serving Coventry. The importance of the line gradually increased as a major passenger and freight cross country link resulting in Network Rail again double tracking part of the route to increase capacity.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.4km<br/>A Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly train speeds away from the Sandy Lane bridge, Old Milverton. The line descends to cross the River Avon and its floodplain by a low viaduct, marked approximately by the furthest of the three white objects. It straddles a gridsquare intersection. Southern Kenilworth is on the skyline: the spire of St John's church can be faintly seen at the end of the track. The line was opened in 1844 as a branch of the London & Birmingham Railway from Coventry to New Milverton, midway between Warwick and Leamington, and was soon extended. It permits direct services between the North and the south coast via Birmingham, Leamington Spa and Reading. The line currently carries up to 16 Cross-Country trains a day in each direction, as well as the Wrexham & Shropshire service from London Marylebone, and freight. There is a stretch of double track through north Kenilworth, allowing trains to pass or overtake.
©Robin Stott

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