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Dist:0.1km<br/>This is a view from the southern end. The flood storage area is nearly 250 metres long and about 100 metres wide at its maximum width.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Construction of this flood storage area off Church Lane began in 1989 to hold back up to 38 million litres of water in a flood event, before letting it out in a controlled fashion down [[2146881]]. This pond with its reedbeds is in the northern half of the storage area and the whole site is also now a Local Nature Reserve known as Church Lane Flood Meadow. North Weald Brook runs in front of the distant trees beyond the bank while on the left the embankment is lowered slightly as a spillway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Situated in Siskin Way on North Weald Airfield
©Lynda Poulter
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©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking across the airfield towards the entrance with the World War II Control Tower and the Hurricane replica.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.3km<br/>Old Ordnance Survey maps show a sewage works for North Weald Bassett to be in existence in this location, although a couple of hundred metres further south towards the village, by 1920. The old site is still shown in operation on 1980s maps, so this site is a comparatively recent modernization of the old works.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards the entrance.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.3km<br/>Memorial at North Weald Airfield.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.3km<br/>North Weald Brook is a tributary of Cripsey Brook and is seen here looking downstream from the bridge on the access road to [[2146854]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>This Hurricane replica is near the original WWII Control Tower.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the Control Tower of North Weald Aerodrome. The goldfish bowl was a post war addition to the typical 1940’s design. North Weald had an illustrious career as a Military base from 1916 when it was known as North Weald Bassett. It was developed as a Sector Station and played a key role in the Battle of Britain. It continued in use well into the “jet age” finally passing to civilian use in 1964. There is a memorial to those who served here at [[268896]]
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across the Hurricane replica with the airfield in the background.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Golf Centre is in Merlin Way on the Airfield.
©Lynda Poulter
Dist:0.4km<br/>These sort of houses are typical of estates built around the 1970s and had the good sense to include a good deal of green space around them instead of cramming them all together.
©David Howard
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©David Howard

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