IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wickersgill, PENRITH, CA10 3QJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to CA10 3QJ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (14 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Settling Ponds
Ponds used by Shap Granite Works to separate water and solids before its released into the environment.
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 18 May 2006
0.07 miles
5
A6 near Shap Blue Quarry
Looking north - direction Shap.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 22 Oct 2016
0.10 miles
8
Small reservoirs by the A6, south of Shap
Image: © David Purchase
Taken: 15 Jul 2013
0.14 miles
9
Entrance to Shap Blue Quarry
Off the A6.
West Coast Main Line runs to the rear.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 22 Oct 2016
0.14 miles
10
Telephone Trunk Repeater
Back in the years BS (before silicon) long distance telephone circuits or trunk lines needed valve amplifiers to maintain the signal strength. In rural areas repeater buildings such as this were built at intervals of about 18km. As well as the amplifiers themselves it housed a battery room and a standby generator. At about 6km in either direction were subsidiary repeaters such as Image They housed amplifiers only, power being fed to them over the telephone cables from main repeaters such as this.
See Fenny Stratford repeater station http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/bpt/vdocs/fnrrptr.html and, an unlikely source, Riverside Church http://www.riversidechurch.co.uk/ourbuilding.htm a trunk repeater turned into a church (with bomb-proof rooms to protect them from the wrath of God).
Nowadays a fibre optic cable can go as much as 100km without needing regeneration so repeater equipment can be located in telephone exchanges. Or on the rare occasions where separate repeaters are needed, they are small enough to fit down a manhole.
Image: © Roger W Haworth
Taken: 24 Dec 2011
0.15 miles