Racecourse Lane
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Racecourse Lane by Basher Eyre as part of the Geograph project.
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Racecourse Lane
Image: © Basher Eyre Taken: 16 Nov 2007
At first glance this seems a most improbable title for such an urban photo but from the 1890s to 1925 there was a racecourse at Paulsgrove, and it was here that visitors alighted at a specially built halt between Portchester and Cosham.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.846676
Longitude
-1.094293