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This sign misled me into following a small path into an area of scrub land beside the track. Fortunately I wan't led into the sewage works, and it did mean I found [[1546410]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Not IN, I hasten to add. This is beside the Stour Valley Way. What looks like frost must be a deposit of some sort of salt on the surface of the cap.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Here, the path leaves the river bank, presumably to avoid the flood plain to the north & sewage works [[1074702]] to the east, and passes between fields before rejoining the river at Muscliffe.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.1km<br/>That is the name of this plant operated by Wessex Water. I assumed as I walked past, increasingly hastily, that "Biosolids" means "things that don't smell very nice". These works are unusual in that they are afforded the label "Sewage works" twice on the 1:25,000 map.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.1km<br/>Aka Sewage works (OS), Purification Works (the local A-Z), or Sludge Treatment Works (OFWAT). Take your pick!
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.1km<br/>A horse grazes between two power lines in Throop.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>The entrance to [[1074702]] (also seen in [[734990]]) and this time, the gates are open - but I wasn't tempted to cross the threshold. On the Stour Valley Way.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Well, I assume that is the case, given its proximity to [[734990]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>View across grazing land from the Stour Valley Way [[1074894]] north towards the River Stour. In the far distance can be seen a hangar at Bournemouth Airport.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>Here the Way has left the riverside and is cutting across the floodplain to rejoin the river near Throop.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>The path from the Stour to Throop has been diverted from the route suggested on the map, for 15 years to my knowledge. From the river, the inland stretch continues in its initial direction, meeting up with the lane alongside the works. The pink diamonds on the map, denoting the Stour Valley Way, more correctly indicate the path. The pictured part, however, follows the original route as shown on the map. The mighty Berry Hill is certainly not of mountaineering proportions; it reaches the dizzy heights of 15 metres above sea level. Its summit is not really discernible and, even compared with its immediate surroundings, it is surprising that it is given a 'Hill' name!
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking north along the part of the path that has been diverted from the route suggested by the map. A plane, standing alongside a wind-sock at Bournemouth Airport, can be seen in the centre of the picture.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>A line of pylons which roughly follows the course of the River Stour.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>A leaning tree on the far bank, one of those pictured from a slightly different angle in [[1546323]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>From the Stour Valley Way just as it leaves the riverside to cut southeastwards towards Throop.
©Derek Harper

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