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Dist:0.2km<br/>This used to be a beautiful back garden with trees and shrubs belonging to one of the cottages on Gillar Drive, until some builders got their hands on it, seeing it not as a garden but as a building plot. The garden had no access, but they have been allowed to come down here and turn our peaceful little close into a building site. It's a disgrace.......
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>I have only just noticed that our little road, containing just 4 bungalows, appears to have been omitted from the Ordnance Survey map, but it IS here, I can assure you, and has been since 1960 !!!
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>This lovely back garden continues to be cleared, ready for a couple of large houses to be plonked on it...see [[2039591]] for a previous view, taken on 27th August. Little do the greedy builders know that this garden is prone to flooding.....
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>This little footpath/bridle path runs alongside the little park, on the left, and the old farmhouse of Studholme Farm. The white cottages on the right are on Giller Drive, and are old farm workers' cottages. The big tree in the middle is a protected tree, of historical importance, and is home to many a magpie !!
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>I took a walk this afternoon across the little park by our bridle path...in the spring, this grass is covered with dandelions. Today it was covered with leaves!
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Each springtime the little park between Sumpter Croft and the bridle path which stretches between Studholme Crescent and Winslow Close is awash with dandelions - no doubt South Ribble Borough Council will come along shortly and chop them all off !!!
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Class 185 units on a Manchester service. Diesels! YEUK!! Nostalgic visit to where I did my trainspotting 40 plus years ago. Coincidentally met another man doing the same!
©Tony Mercer
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the new roundabout on Leyland Road, at its junction with Bee Lane (to the left) and the new road, the Cawsey, to the right.
©Mari Buckley
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©Margaret Clough
Dist:0.3km<br/>Skew Bridge is aptly named, twisting as it does, carrying Leyland Road over the West coast mainline at Farington Curve, Penwortham, Preston.
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.4km<br/>Train at Farington Curve Junction, south of Preston. Diverging double track lines go to Blackburn and beyond. Single to Ormskirk.
©Tony Mercer
Dist:0.5km<br/>I took this photo as I was going to pick up my new car from here yesterday morning! There's been a car dealership here for many years, and I think I vaguely remember buying petrol from here at one time.
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.5km<br/>View, towards Preston and the North on WCML, also Blackpool etc., south side of Preston with Park Hotel visible on the extreme left. The Class E freight is headed by Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48323 (built late 1944, withdrawn 7/68 -one of the last). See also [[[2600541]]].
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>View northward, towards Preston and the North: ex-LNW & L&Y Joint stretch (from Euxton Junction) of the West Coast Main Line. The Up Class H freight is on the Slow lines just south of Ribble Sidings, headed by the usual Stanier Class 5 4-6-0, here No. 45184.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>This public pathway is a convenient shortcut if you need to get from Bee Lane to Sumpter Croft and back again. As it's not lit, it's a bit spooky at night though!
©Mari Buckley

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