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Dist:0.4km north<br/>Railway line and Askham bogs, taken from A1036.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.7km east<br/>This new college will replace the buildings that were formerly the adjacent York Sixth Form College and York College of Further Education, which were merged some time ago.
©Robert Neilson
Dist:0.7km east<br/>This new college will replace the buildings that were formerly the adjacent York Sixth Form College and York College of Further Education, which were merged some time ago.
©Robert Neilson
Dist:0.9km south<br/>Between Bishopthorpe and Copmanthorpe.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.9km east<br/>Due to open in 2007, this is York College under construction.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.9km east<br/>Taken from the former railway line, with back to the solar system sun.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.9km east<br/>This is the start of a scale model of the Solar System, spread out over 10 km. The scale is 575,872,239:1. This is the Sun and is the start of the trail, however, the photograph is taken looking north with the trail going south. Part of National Cycle Network route 65 and a Sustrans Cycle track.
©Julian Dowse
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Milepost on Tadcaster Road, York, erected by the Hob Moor Lane End to Tadcaster Bridge Turnpike Trust
©Jeremy Howat
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Eastfield Farm has paddocks, horses and stabling and is very close to a significant edge-of-greenbelt housing development to the North side of Woodthorpe Lane, from which this photograph was taken.
©Robert Neilson
Dist:1.2km north<br/>This grid square is almost empty on the 1940s map, but has now been filled with late-20th Century housing developments.
©John Armitstead
Dist:1.3km east<br/>Here the "Trans Pennine Trail" cycle track passes under Sim Balk Lane and runs alongside the A64.
©Sam Kelly
Dist:1.4km east<br/>View along Sim Balk Lane as it passes over the A64 in the distance.
©Darren Haddock
Dist:1.4km southeast<br/>A friendly local farmer suggested I go down by the junction of Town Ings Drain and The Foss on the parish boundary between Copmanthorpe and Bishopthorpe, where I might get some photographs of the kingfishers. I spent quite some time there but didn't see any, so here's a nice picture of a field.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:1.4km east<br/>National cycle route 65. This view is towards the racecourse. The A64 is on the far right of the image.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.4km northeast<br/>Dringhouses Primary School.
©Neil Turner

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  • Scagglethorpe Moor

    Hi interested in the current ownership and history of the unused bit of Scagglethorpe Moor at the end of Parsons Lane 2 miles to the West of Popp. Can anyone help please? Regards, Ed
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