M4 Motorway near Datchet
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M4 Motorway near Datchet
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 7 Dec 2008
Looking straight down the central reservation towards Junction 5 from Image, the B470 Major's Farm Road is on the right and Riding Court Road is on the left. A glance at the 1881 Ordnance Survey map of Berkshire shows that there was a track here then that the motorway now follows. However the major feature on the track then was an animal pound...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.488171
Longitude
-0.554922