The road to nowhere
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The road to nowhere by Gordon Hatton as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 20 Aug 2011
Not quite the road to nowhere as this road does go as far as the entrance to the Army helicopter base at Dishforth airfield, but before 1941 this was the A167 from Boroughbridge to Dishforth, the construction of the airfield permanently closing the road a few hundred metres further on.
Image Location
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