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This is the junction with Combe Lane, where a lamp post stands on a substantial lump of rock in an apparently rather hazardous position in the middle of the junction.
©Richard Dorrell
A small triangular playing field between Teignmouth Road and Combe Lane, seen here from close to the entrance in Happaway Road.
©Richard Dorrell
Located within a largely residential area of Torquay, Creative Foods is a speciality division of the Brakes Group. It is a major producer of recipe dishes, puddings and desserts for the catering industry.
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.1km<br/>This housing development has the unusual feature of a brook flowing through a concrete channel across an open grassy area between the two residential parts of the road. The brook appears from and disappears into underground pipes.
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Two water channels converge in the middle of the green at the centre of Firlands Road, Combe Pafford.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>This terrace can be seen on the extreme left of [[754977]]. It breasts the crest of a hill. The traffic light is for [[1330039]], taken just across to the right.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>The lower stretch of Park Road, which descends steeply from St Marychurch to meet Teignmouth Road at the traffic lights.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>This terrace is shown on the left of [[370092]], looking downhill. Seen from the junction with Teignmouth Road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from a path running alongside Happaway Road, across an area of grass.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>The sad remains of a listed farmhouse (described at http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-390602-15-torquay as "A handsome late C17 farmhouse") on Fore Street. A fire badly damaged it in 2006. http://www.torbay.gov.uk/dl/file?file=\Agendas Reports & Minutes\Public Meetings\2009-2010\050 Development Management 26 October\N5 2009-0746-PA Pavor Farmhouse, 15 Fore Street, Torquay.doc discusses plans to renovate it. On the left can be glimpsed an C18 thatched cottage http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-390603-19-torquay .
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>And a bus stop. I think these pale blue flats, and the cream ones beyond, may be a complete new build rather than just an extensive restoration. They can be seen on the left of [[754977]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>A former chapel next to a public house in St.Marychurch.
©Paul Hutchinson
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©John Firth
Dist:0.3km<br/>This terrace overlooks the Fleete valley from the slopes of Lummaton Hill.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>This housing development has the unusual feature of a brook flowing through a concrete channel across an open grassy area between the two residential parts of the road. The brook appears from and disappears into underground pipes.
©Richard Dorrell

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