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The pub is situated in the north western corner of the grid square.
©Pam Brophy
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the trackbed of the former Lambourn Valley Railway which closed to regular passenger and freight traffic on 4 January 1960, almost fifty years previously to the day that the photograph was taken. However occasional military freight trains used the line to Welford and then to RAF Welford until 1973, before the track was lifted completely around 1976. There were plans to preserve the line as a heritage steam railway, but they did not come to fruition and now any new similar proposals would have several major civil engineering feats to overcome, not least how the line would now cross the new A34 Newbury Bypass which is immediately behind the photographer here. This is the trackbed viewed looking towards the former Speen station and Newbury.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>An overgrown field and footpath between the village and the A34.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bridge takes the bypass over Lambourn Road in Speen. The pale green fence is probably a traffic sound-deadening measure.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>At one time Speen had its own station on the Lambourn Valley Railway. It opened in 1898 and closed in 1960, fifty years previously to the day, bar one, that this photograph was taken. The driveway follows the course of the old railway and the station was on the left where the sunlit hedge is now. The driveway leads to a new private residential estate somewhat tweely called "The Sydings" and odd because contemporary map and photographic evidence shows that of all the accoutrements of railway infrastructure a siding, yet alone more than one, was never warranted here.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The former Lambourn Valley Railway crossed Station Road by a level crossing at the driveway entrance to the left. Up this driveway is [[1668522]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Deanwood Park Golf Course is a well kept, 9 hole venue. Although short in yards it is long in interest due to water features and attractive trees. This is the easiest hole stroke index 17/18 of 122 yards par 3. In the foreground is one of the 4 protecting bunkers.
©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is part of the A34 Newbury bypass, one of the sections that had large numbers of protests including tree-dwellers when being built in the 1990s.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a Greene King house. They are large regional brewers based in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. [[2015212]].
©P L Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>A rural pub located between West Speen and Speen, on an unclassified road. [[2015230]].
©P L Chadwick
Dist:0.6km<br/>Part of Donnington Grove's parkland, now a golf course and leisure resort. The lake is alongside the River Lambourn.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.6km<br/>View West over the river Lambourn, at Donnington Grove Country Club.
©Tim Booth
Dist:0.7km<br/>Grade 2 listed building erected in the 14th century.
©Michael FORD
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is just within the appropriately named Castle Wood. The path is popular with dog walkers and has had boards installed in various places to minimise the mud.
©Graham Horn
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©Alexander P Kapp

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