Steps up into Hackwood Park
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Steps up into Hackwood Park
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 17 Apr 2012
Hackwood Park is an up-market housing estate established in the 1980s in the grounds of the old Hackwood House. The estate is built on a steep hillside above the centre of Hexham and is served by a sinuous road whose only exit is at the top of the estate into Juniper Road. This is one of two walkways which have been constructed to provide a direct way through the estate down to the bottom and out onto the Slaley Road. But everybody just jumps into their car - I have yet to meet anybody using the walkway. This particular walkway defies all the normal guidelines for such a feature. There is a blank headwall at the top of the steps where the path turns sharply to the right, and therefore there is no through visibility - essential to provide a sense of security.
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