Junction of trails
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Junction of trails
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 30 Jan 2018
This junction of trails is in the eastern quarter of Brierley Forest Park. Ahead and to the right is the old trackbed of the Midland Railway's Skegby branch line. Some 1.6km onward it joined the railway's Tibshelf and Pleasley branch line (Now the Silverhill Trail). Ahead and to the left is Image, a track that leads to Brierley Waters (a fishing pond) beyond which is another car park and visitor centre. The track on the right, leading back behind the viewpoint, leads to Image Immediately behind the viewpoint is a footpath in Image that leads to a small car park just off Image The footpath in the bottom left corner of the photograph begins by following the route of some dismantled railway sidings through an area once called 'The Brand' before leading on toward Stoneyford Road. Other routes into Brierley Forest Park also branch off this track.
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Image Location
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53.136435
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-1.28292