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A quietish street near Preston, Torbay
©Richard Knights
Dist:0.1km<br/>The start of one of the main footpaths in Occombe Woods. Unusually for this location, there were no dog-walkers visible when the photograph was taken.
©Paul Hutchinson
Dist:0.2km<br/>A fork in the path running along the steep northern side of the Occombe Valley.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>There must be many worse views from bus stops. Brixham is visible across the blue waters of Tor Bay.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>You can understand why the hills above Paignton are covered in estates when you see the views on a day like this; there is an unfortunate corollary, however. Here, chalet bungalows line a steep hill dropping to meet Albany Road. The woods are in Occombe valley.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>Albany Road drops steeply to meet Occombe Valley Road, which runs (but not for much further) up the valley bottom. Housing occupies the south side of the valley but not the north - strange in view of the sunnier aspect, but explained by the fact that the north side is even steeper.
©Derek Harper
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.4km<br/>A path above the Occombe valley passes a seat with views across Paignton. The sea looks very blue on this clear day.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>These woodlands are full of ferns. The path is climbing steeply straight up the northern valley side from the housing on Occombe Valley Road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>The double bend at the top of Sandringham Gardens, the main road becoming Preston Down Road as it swings left in ftont of the detached house. The latter continues from the further corner to the right as a narrow, steep, one-way (uphill) lane. To the left is Sandringham Drive. A few yards down to the right is the view shown in [[748211]] and [[748267]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>A few yards beyond the scene in [[763912]] is this view. Berry Head is visible across the bay.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The blossom of Prunus spinosa on a bush by a path behind a house on Sandringham Gardens, at the top end of Preston Park.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The blossom of Prunus spinosa on a bush by a path behind a house on Sandringham Gardens, at the top end of Preston Park.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Bus stop on Langdon Road as it joins Coombe Road
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.5km<br/>A reverse view of [[765044]], with the path dropping past oaks and three-cornered leeks to meet the end of Dolphin Court Road as it turns sharply downhill to become Windmill Road.
©Derek Harper

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