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©John Phillips
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.4km<br/>This pub and restaurant is on Station Road Whitacre Heath.
©Carl Baker
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©Mick Malpass
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©Mick Malpass
Dist:0.6km<br/>See the orange lorries? This incredible building, over 500 metres long, closes the eastern end of Canton Lane, Hams Hall National Distribution Park, near Coleshill, North Warwickshire. Excellent bird's-eye views at http://maps.live.com, which show about 150 lorries loading. Tim Marshall's picture from the opposite direction, 'Fields near Whitacre Junction' [[SP2191]] shows the Hams Hall power stations on this site in 1984. The last one was demolished in 1993.
©Robin Stott
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking towards Hams Hall Power Station in August, 1984
©Tim Marshall
Dist:0.8km<br/>A great place to see wild birds.
©Peterson Cobbett
Dist:0.9km<br/>Two of a convoy of five lorries parked in Canton Lane on the north side of the National Distribution Park near Coleshill, North Warwickshire. The park was developed in the 1990s on the site of the Hams Hall power stations, which were themselves built on the Hams Hall estate by Birmingham Corporation, beginning in the 1920s. It was (and still is) a strategic location close to a railway and the River Tame (and today the M6 and the M42). Apart from the sky it is an entirely man-made landscape: even the plants are cloned. The evergreen oak, centre, is one of the few surviving trees from 1,000 hectares of parkland. Early OS maps show the 18th century house at SP 205922, out of shot, left. The steam rises from a factory that makes lightweight concrete blocks. It is probable that it was sited here to use the pulverised fuel ash from the power stations.
©Robin Stott
Dist:1.0km<br/>Looking into the pool at SP208929 from Bird Hide
©John Phillips
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©John Phillips
Dist:1.0km south<br/>But the bizarre Victorian Water works at Whitacre Junction SP217912
©John Phillips
Dist:1.0km west<br/>A view inside the former two-acre walled kitchen garden of Hams Hall, a remnant of the 100 hectare estate acquired in 1919 by Birmingham Corporation, who needed it as a strategic location for a power station. The garden is now an environmental education centre owned by E-on and is not open to the public. The head gardener's cottage is being restored and extended to accommodate the centre, now housed in temporary classrooms. The brick wall with recesses was probably the rear wall of a lean-to (south-facing) greenhouse. The yew trees in the background are in the churchyard of Lea Marston parish church, at [[SP204927]].
©Robin Stott
Dist:1.1km east<br/>A shrubbery feature on the lawns leading down to Bakehouse Lane. The timber framed farm building can be seen through the trees.
©David Stowell
Dist:1.1km east<br/>An interesting rambling old building currently up for sale.
©David Stowell

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