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Dist:0.2km<br/>It was a runway when this used to be an airfield. Used as a road now but restricted access applies.
©John Holmes
Dist:0.3km<br/>Pair of gates north of Wiggonby on the road to Watchtree Nature Reserve
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>the main runway of what use to be Great Orton Airfield, now used as a road with restricted access
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>The burial place for over 400,000 sheep 12,000 cows and 5,000 pigs, victims of the 2001 out break of foot and mouth. http://www.visitcumbria.com/footandmouth.htm http://www.watchtree.co.uk/ http://www.enterprisingcommunities.org.uk/casestudies/watchtree/chapterone.html
©Alexander P Kapp
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©John Holmes
Dist:0.4km<br/>These structures occupy what was RAF Great Orton airfield during World War II.
©Rose and Trev Clough
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>See separate submission for detail of plaque.
©John Holmes
Dist:0.5km<br/>The wind turbines looking south east
©David Liddle
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©John Holmes
Dist:0.6km<br/>Being landscaped as part of Watchtree Nature Reserve.
©John Holmes
Dist:0.8km<br/>http://www.controltowers.co.uk/G/Great_Orton.htm
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.8km<br/>On the site of an old airfield which was used in 2001 for the mass disposal of animal carcasses slaughtered during the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©phil rayson

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