Marine Drive
Introduction
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Marine Drive
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 26 Aug 2012
The only vehicular entrance to the Rookery Hill estate. The road was laid out in the late 1930s as part of a plan to build a new coastal town around the village of Bishopstone. However, the outbreak of the war halted proceedings and a mixture of material shortages and tougher planning laws prevented the original plans from being implemented. During the 1960s vacant plots along this road, Bishopstone Road and Rookery Way were filled in and in the following decade the rest of the estate was completed.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.783381
Longitude
0.078645