Former Golf Course, Billingham
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Former Golf Course, Billingham
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 12 Dec 2005
In the mid 80's this land was a golf course belonging to ICI's recreation club, Synthonia. Now it is inhabited by the occasional tethered horse. It may be that the intention is to expand the adjacent Charlton's Pond Nature Reserve by allowing the land to revert back to nature. Who knows?
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Image Location
Latitude
54.600888
Longitude
-1.27245