Bitton Park Road, eastern section
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Bitton Park Road, eastern section
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 19 Feb 2012
This was once the main road into the town from the west and must have been used by the clay wagons delivering to the docks. The widening and brutal realignment of the A379 in the late 1980s (deduced from Old Maps) left this severed length of Bitton Park Road accessible only from Fore Street/Exeter Street and Daimonds Lane. On the left are Douglas House flats at the top of Saxe Street, another road severed in the change. The view is from St James's churchyard. A closer view is Image
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Image Location
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50.547907
Longitude
-3.499598