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Beacon Hill Junction on the A350
This busy junction is on the A350 between Poole and Blandford, with local roads leading off here to Lytchett Minster, and Corfe Mullen.
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 4 May 2007
0.06 miles
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Former Limberlost Pine furniture company
This company used to produce quality pine furniture, but has sadly closed. This building is on the A350 at the turn into Beacon Hill. The question of which grid square it belongs in could be argued. Where the building is marked on a map, it is in the vee of the two roads and looks to be ‘on the line’. My GPS put it just in this square.
Image: © John Lamper
Taken: 4 May 2006
0.09 miles
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Old Wareham Road descends Beacon Hill
The junction with the A350 Blandford Road North is at the bottom of the hill.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 30 Oct 2012
0.09 miles
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Beacon Hill: postbox № BH16 27, Blandford Road North
The building on this corner was once Beacon Hill Post Office, which closed down in the 1980s. It was then taken over by Limberlost pine furntiture company, earning the junction the soubriquet Limberlost. That name can still be seen in the iron former gateway to the left (which is in the next square east).
The postbox is emptied at 4pm on weekdays and at 9:45am on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 24 May 2009
0.09 miles
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Beacon Hill (district)
The car may be hoping to get to the green traffic light just visible where this road meets the A350 before it changes.
Beacon Hill was noted for its production of sand and lime bricks, using materials extracted from the quarry situated in this square. The bricks were steamed rather than fired, and this produced a very hard, durable brick that was available in a range of colours. Beacon Hill bricks were used extensively throughout the county and may be readily recognised. The quarry is now exhausted and production has ceased. It is now being used for landfill.
Image: © John Lamper
Taken: 4 May 2006
0.13 miles
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St Aldhelm, Lytchett Heath: southern aspect
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 22 Apr 2014
0.14 miles
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St Aldhelm's Chapel, Lytchett Heath
This delightful building is tucked away and easily missed. The tower is unusual in that the bells are visible from the exterior. The chapel was presented with a set of new stained glass windows depicting the life of St Aldhelm in September 2001.
http://www.stained-windows.co.uk/StAldhelm.htm
Image: © John Lamper
Taken: 4 May 2006
0.15 miles
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Lytchett Heath, lych gate
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Apr 2017
0.15 miles
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St Aldhelm, Lytchett Heath: lych gate
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 22 Apr 2014
0.15 miles
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Lytchett Heath, St. Aldhelm's
Late C19 church, now apparently disused - there is no church board, though the churchyard appears tended.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Apr 2017
0.15 miles