Harold Hill: Straight Road
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The photograph on this page of Harold Hill: Straight Road by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 26 Aug 2013
It does exactly what it says on the tin..., running dead straight for about 1.2 miles NNW from Gallows Corner, to about where the white car is. However it was not always called Straight Road. Old Victorian large scale Ordnance Survey maps show the thoroughfare as Gallows Lane. The junction of Hailsham Road with Straight Road is in the foreground.