Viewing bays without a view
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Viewing bays without a view
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 6 Jan 2023
I don't know what these bays are (there are three in total) or what purpose they could possibly serve. They look like viewing platforms, and whilst the small narrow wood they look out onto is pleasant enough, it could hardly be described as anything special. Plus the view from the walkway - which leads from a footbridge over a railway line to a tarmacked path that leads to a main road - is just the same. I did have a silly fleeting notion that they might be some kind of horse passing places. There are a great deal of reasons this can't be the case, the main one being that I have never seen a horse walking up or down a flight of steps.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.894578
Longitude
-3.6104