Industrial Road

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Industrial Road by Tony Atkin as part of the Geograph project.

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Industrial Road

Image: © Tony Atkin Taken: 21 Jan 2006

This is a private road which used to carry the railway line between Par and Fowey. The china clay extraction company decided that it was easier to use lorries than trains to carry clay between the works at Par and the deepwater harbour at Fowey and so converted it to a road.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.341946
Longitude
-4.645021