Path to the supermarket, Chase Farm
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Path to the supermarket, Chase Farm
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 30 May 2020
An inanity of the car-based, enclosed area thought behind many modern housing developments. The local supermarket is around 150 metres behind the photographer. Because the estate is surrounded by a fence, the official pedestrian route involves walking up the to point on the main road on the left where some blue flags are visible, before coming all the way back down. From the nearest house this is just over 1 kilometre. The path leads to a gate in the fence which is clearly meant to be a locked access to the area around the catchment pond on the left. (It wasn't locked when I was there, but there was someone working on the 'wrong' side of the fence.) If the fence is intended to protect residents from the perils of the pond, the absurdity of this is that the pond is not fenced off from the road.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.98156
Longitude
-1.087539