Drowned road at Roadford Lake
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Drowned road at Roadford Lake
Image: © Jon Coupland Taken: 7 May 2007
When the reservoir was created in 1990 a small hamlet called Shop was drowned. This is the road to Shop with the tarmaced road rapidly being overtaken by nature.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.700072
Longitude
-4.235023