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Dist:0.1km north<br/>St Mary's Church photographed from the A595. Black Combe's lower slopes are in the background and the former Whicham School playing fields in the foreground.
©Mark Jenkinson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The flank of Black Combe in the background is called Parsonage Breast on the OS 1:25,000 map.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Photograph taken from the A595 in front of St Mary's Church, Whicham.
©Mark Jenkinson
Dist:0.5km north<br/>At first glance a 'tin tabernacle' corrugated iron building, but closer inspection showed it to be clad in asbestos concrete.
©David Long
Dist:0.6km south<br/>Black Combe rising beyond.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.7km south<br/>An "up" train of reprocessed nuclear material from BNFL at Sellafield (perhaps destined for a Polaris refit at nearby Barrow shipyard) awaits a green light at Silecroft station. The spectacular Furness line from Barrow to Carlisle might have disappeared long ago but for Sellafield's economic significance in West Cumbria.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Narrow footpath from Fell Brow to Sledbank
©Chris Upson
Dist:0.9km east<br/>View of the lane from Po House to the main road.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:1.1km east<br/>
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>
©David Long
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>Small disused quarry on the NW side of the A595(T) 400m SW of Hill End. According to the 1940 OS map the A595(T) was the B5253
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:1.3km east<br/>
©Andrew Hill
Dist:1.4km north<br/>
©Chris Upson

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