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Dist:0.3km<br/>With Paulton Batch in the distance
©Dominic Dawn Harry and Jacob Paterson
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©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bridge at the bottom over a small brook has caused holdups over many a long year. About time it was widened. [[[1528413]]] gives a far more pleasant view from the other side of the bridge. The old Norton/Radstock railway ran through here, it made a link to Bristol via Clutton and Whitchurch. In the other direction (east) it went through Wellow and Limpley Stoke.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>From a gate on Northmead Road (the B3355) close to Thicketmead Bridge across the brook. A public footpath runs along the linear meadow between the Norton Radstock Greenway (on the left) and the tree-lined brook to the right.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>With a view of Old Mills batch. "Batch" is the North Somerset Coalfield name for a heap of mine waste.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Coming to the bottom of Phillis Hill and the roundabout junction with the A362. The B3355 left Paulton about a mile back.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Langley's Lane is a few yards behind the camera position.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking east.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.6km<br/>This stone building, with pronounced quoins, is at the corner with Chilcompton Road (right), which explains its less than regular shape. Both junction and house also appear in [[126757]].
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.6km<br/>
©Dominic Dawn Harry and Jacob Paterson
Dist:0.7km<br/>Made of cast iron plates riveted together, they made it to last, pity about the railway. The line formerly ran from Bristol south through Whitchurch, Pensford and Clutton. We see the remains of it just before it reaches Midsomer Norton. I should add, this was a single line branch of the G.W.R. (God's Wonderful Railway).
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Not much on Langley's Lane but it is very quiet after the hurley-burley of Midsomer Norton. Wellow Brook runs through this valley, on the other side of the field.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Paulton House was the head office for Great Mills Stores before the company was taken over by Focus.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.7km<br/>A coal spoil heap rises above the greenery. Midsomer Norton and Radstock were important coalmining areas from the late 18th century, and production gradually increased with time up to 1900. However, the complicated local geology and nationalisation eventually led to the closure of all mining in September 1973. The heap is actually a SSSI and contains some interesting fossils, including the world's earliest known damselfly!
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.7km<br/>From a gateway by Boxbury Hill. The heap also appears as "Old Mills Batch" in [[431140]]. Old Mills colliery operated from 1860-1966; Springfield from 1872-1966.
©Derek Harper

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