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Dist:0.3km<br/>Grassy, sheep filled fields dominate this area, here looking east from the A535 toward the Peak District. Dingle Bank Quarry (sand) can be seen on the left among the trees.
©Iain McDonald
Dist:0.3km<br/>Pluto the outermost planet in the Solar System has its symbol located at the farthest point within the arboretum scaled from the Sun symbol at the arboretum entrance. I suspect the arboretum had to be extended to accommodate its position.
©Peter Turner
Dist:0.4km<br/>Scattered through the arboretum are symbols and plaques denoting the planets of our solar system located at scaled distances from the symbol of the Sun at the entrance to the grounds. It gives some sort of feeling for distances as the Earth is within touching distance of the Sun but Pluto is a kilometre or more away.
©Peter Turner
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©nick macneill
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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.6km<br/>A view across the fields west of Catchpenny Pool to the sand workings near Dairy House Farm
©Richard Law
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©nick macneill
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.7km<br/>Maybe the limos in my other picture stopped like I did to look across the fields to Jodrell Bank. Wherever you stop in Cheshire for a look at the view the cry always goes up, inside your head or out in the open -'There's Jodrell Bank'.
©Peter Turner
Dist:0.7km<br/>'Mother' and 'daughter', perhaps? They're heading Chelford way but I'm off to Jodrell Bank.
©Peter Turner
Dist:0.8km<br/>Nice shot of the telescope
©Mike McCusker
Dist:0.8km<br/>A fine half-timbered property at Smiths Green, the date on the horizontal timber at the roofline reads '1658'.
©Richard Law
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©Ian Greig
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.9km<br/>Plaque describing the Planet Trail through the arboretum. I found it, as suggested on the plaque, quite a hunt to locate Pluto and the distance away from the sun-symbol gives some idea of the size of our planetary system when you note how close is the Earth symbol to the Sun.
©Peter Turner

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