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Romney Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 6JR

This photo was taken in December 2005 and looks out onto Romney Road from the Aberdare Road end. On the other end is Saxonhurst Road. The houses are predominantly detached with a smattering of semi-detached. Most of them were built in the 1930s. Prior to the housing development the area used to be the grounds of the Ensbury Race Course.

A tree on the junction of Headswell Avenue and Deanscroft Road.

Peering around the corner from Saxonhurst Road into this short, one-segment road with desirable detached houses typical of this part of Northbourne. Like many roads, this junction has a broadened triangular shape at each corner. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. This is photo no.105 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.

Alphabetically the first of the 451 roads within 2km of my home, Aberdare Road is in the relatively well-to-do Northbourne area and consists of bungalows. We look across its one midway junction, with Romney Road to the left and Romney Close to the right. 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 but this one is still in pretty good nick. This is photo no.1 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.

Sandy Way is a lane some 630m in length which forms public bridleway O07 between Wimborne Road and Headswell Avenue. At each end, it is a gravel road with a few dwellings but the majority of it is a very rural feeling track in a steep sided, linear wood. Here, we pass a couple of garages at the backs of Headswell Avenue gardens, which are accessed via Sandy Way. The bridleway continues down the right fork. See Image for the next view along the route ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each giving links to further photos all along the route.

Sandy Way is a lane some 630m in length which forms public bridleway O07 between Wimborne Road and Headswell Avenue. At each end, it is a gravel road with a few dwellings but the majority of it is a very rural feeling track in a steep sided, linear wood. Here, we are towards the southern end and it is still motorable at this point, as there are a couple of rear garages behind us accessed along here before the track becomes a path through the woods. See Image for the next view along the route ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each giving links to further photos all along the route.

Sandy Way is a lane some 630m in length which forms public bridleway O07 between Wimborne Road and Headswell Avenue. At each end, it is a gravel road with a few dwellings but the majority of it is a very rural feeling track in a steep sided, linear wood. Here, we pass the last access to rear garages of Headswell Avenue (left) as the bridleway bears right into the wooded section. See Image for the next view along the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each giving links to further photos all along the route.

Sandy Way is a lane some 630m in length which forms public bridleway O07 between Wimborne Road and Headswell Avenue. At each end, it is a gravel road with a few dwellings but the majority of it is a very rural feeling track in a steep sided, linear wood. Here, we head north along the section from Headswell Avenue, passing an old freezer and some breeze blocks which have been dumped at the side of the track. See Image for the next view along the route ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each giving links to further photos all along the route.