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Green Lane, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5LE

This public footpath leads from Green Lane to Heather Road. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown in places. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the view towards us from across the road, and Image for the next view along the path behind us.

This public footpath leads from Green Lane to Heather Road. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the next view along the path.

This public footpath leads from Green Lane (ahead) to Heather Road. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown in places. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the next view along the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.

This public footpath leads from Green Lane (behind us) to Heather Road. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown in places. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the next view along the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.

This public footpath leads from Green Lane to Heather Road. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown in places. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the next view along the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.

This public footpath leads from Heather Road to Green Lane. It is a narrow, grass/earth track which is quite overgrown in places. Perhaps it is little used because a much better, tarmacked path runs parallel 100 yards or so to the south. See Image for the next view along the path.

Minstead is a New Forest village, as is Marchwood, whose namesake road comes off Minstead Road – but these are the only two roads so named in the area. The sign is from around 2000, and it morphed into another design, in blue rather than green and far more widely seen, including BOURNEMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL in smaller letters at the top, and the borough coat of arms on the left. This is photo no.275 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A short cul-de-sac of maybe 1970s housing off the major side-road, Howeth Road. The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. This is photo no.206 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

The parked van allows us only a glimpse along this snaking no-through road, but that glimpse tells us that it consists of desirable detached houses and is not a modern cul-de-sac like many of the infill developments in the area. The sign also tells us that the road isn't modern: it looks like an ordinary 1980s sign mounted on tubular steel (such as the one at Image), but careful scrutiny will tell us that the lettering and black border is embossed in the metalwork and not put on adhesively like the more modern variety. This makes it one of the older, perhaps 1960s, nameplates. This is photo no.39 of a series of 451 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A short east-west road linking Howeth Road and Green Lane, used occasionally as a sort of cut-through – only occasionally because this is one of those areas where none of the roads goes fully between any of the major roads so you have to keep doing a left-right, and it would possibly have been just as quick therefore to stick to the bigger roads in the first place! The sign is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Many are starting to look a bit shabby now, and the blue border has faded to nothing on this one. This is photo no.145 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.