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©Dominic Dawn Harry and Jacob Paterson
Dist:0.3km<br/>This cottage stands at the top of the very steep hill that plunges down to Lower Writhlington.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>With a very good convenience store on the other side of the A362. Be careful as you cross this road.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along the A362 toward Radstock. Writhlington was a mining village, coal was taken by tramway to Radstock then on the Radstock Tramway to Midford and onward by canal. Traces of mining activity can still be found around the village. http://www.radstock4u.com/villagepages/writhlington/
©Maurice Pullin
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©Phil Taylor
Dist:0.8km<br/>Turning round from [[[1455825]]] it is only half a mile to get out of Radstock this way. A bus stop and shelter belonging to the Norton Radstock Town Council figures. (Norton Radstock! Don't get me going on that one.)
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>Immediately before the bridge in [[[700857]]] the lane crosses the Wellow Brook, seen here.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>To complete the set we should take a look at Mells Lane, even though there is not much there apart from a road sign and an old (repainted) post box - and a few houses.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>The cyclepath follows the Somerset & Dorset Railway line along the valley of the Wellow Brook. Here it approaches the site of Writhlington colliery.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.9km<br/>Looking North-west from the bed of the disused Bath to Bournemouth Somerset & Dorset Railway (now Sustrans NCN24 Cycleway), Tyning Batch (old coal spoil tip, aforested with Scots Pine & Larch in 1950's) in background. "White lias, I wanna lias, white lias, lias I want!"
©Jon Price
Dist:0.9km<br/>Lower Whitelands is seen behind the trees [top left] Woodborough farm nestles between the two evergreen copses in the top right of the picture
©chris wharton n poppi lewis
Dist:0.9km<br/>This is a John Mills "Fossil Tree" style post (see http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1132763167625 ) and is a mile from Radstock.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.9km<br/>The catkins are early this year, hope this doesn't mean another poor year for hazel nuts.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>There was a colliery to the left of this path a little further on. The path/cycleway follows the bed of the old Somerset & Dorset Railway.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:1.0km<br/>The bridge carried the Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the slow and dirty, from Bath Green Park through Radstock and Shepton Mallet and on to destinations in Dorset. It now carries a footpath and cycleway.
©Maurice Pullin

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