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Dist:0.1km<br/>The Nottinghamshire village of Granby is visible in the distance.
©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.2km<br/>This tree marks the spot! To the right: Nottinghamshire and to the left: Leicestershire. Plus some typical Vale of Belvoir farmland.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The ambitious plan is to renovate the 33 mile Grantham Canal from the Trent to Grantham and open it to navigation. Work is progressing, but you can see they haven't reached this spot yet.
©Brian Green
Dist:0.3km<br/>In the 1950s, 46 road bridges of a total of 69 over the route of the Grantham Canal were flattened. Like many others, this one was converted to a culvert, instead of the original humped bridge.
©Brian Green
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©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.4km<br/>Formerly the trackbed of standard-gauge GN&LNWJt Northampton-Melton-Bottesford-Newark line. The Eastwell line came down the escarpment on a rope-worked incline and joined the GN&LNWJt at SK759293. This particular view it is used as a footpath; but there are numerous sections where all signs of the railway have been erased. The Eastwell quarry closed in 1958 and rail traffic ceased with it. Harby Hills: site of former ironstone railway incline. The ironstone was then tipped into mainline wagons and taken to Stanton and other ironworks.
©Brian Green
Dist:0.5km<br/>This view is from the top of the old railway bridge, looking towards Plungar.
©Brian Green
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Anchor is on the cross roads of Post Office Lane, Church Lane and Granby Lane
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.6km<br/>This field is right behind the Anchor Pub, [[64086]], in Plungar
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.6km<br/>Now a dwelling
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.6km<br/>Is probably typical of the type of dwelling being built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in this area.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.6km<br/>Decorated 14th century church in local ironstone
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.6km<br/>No longer an active farm with new dwellings in the former farmyard.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of the pleasant characteristics of Plungar is that there has not been too much infilling and so there are still fields within the village.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of the many mile markers along this section of the canal, usually spaced at quarter mile intervals.
©Mat Fascione

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