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Dist:0.2km<br/>Birch trees line a public footpath running through the garden of Kon-Tiki near Oxspring.
©Jonathan Clitheroe
Dist:0.2km<br/>Path through barley.
©Wendy North
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.3km<br/>There are Elizabethan features present on some of the farm buildings including stone mullioned windows and a Dove cote. Though these features are not present in this photograph.
©Wendy North
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Stone was a common roofing material in the Upper Don Valley. It's not often that there is a chance to see them stacked ready for use.
©Wendy North
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©John Slater
Dist:0.3km<br/>Roughbirchworth is a very ancient settlement and formed one of two Manors that are now part of the parish of Oxspring.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.3km<br/>Our walk took us through the gardens of a bungalow that is now called 'Kontiki'. 'This was the site of the former Dawsons Mill which is thought to have been the corn mill for the Manor of Roughbirchworth.' (Oxspring Heritage Group) On the mill pond approximately twenty five fledgling mallards were all thriving.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.3km<br/>Welcome sign just outside the village of Oxspring.
©Dave Pickersgill
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.3km<br/>Old farm buildings in this hamlet close to the historic village of Oxspring. It has an interesting pigeon loft with holes and stone ledges set into the gable of a barn.
©Chris Yeates
Dist:0.4km<br/>In medieval times the Manor of Roughbirchworth existed as a separate entity to the Manor of Oxspring. Today they are both subsumed into the Parish of Oxspring.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.4km<br/>From Park Lane.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was one of those days of sun and showers when the rain clouds blow in quickly from the west. Again the electricity pylons dominate and are a much more striking feature of the landscape than the rainbow. See [[929267]]
©Wendy North

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