IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Roman Road, COLCHESTER, CO1 1UP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Roman Road, CO1 1UP 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
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (243 Images Found)
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This partly covered OS cut mark can be found on No50 Roman Road. It marks a point 15.892m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 8 Jan 2020
0.00 miles
2
Victorian terrace in Roman Road
Convenient for the town centre yet tucked away, this street comprises mostly terraced and semi-detached houses from the Victorian era. The pale green house was once a pub - The Roman Urn!
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 3 Sep 2007
0.01 miles
3
Night-time snow scene in Roman Road (2)
Contrast Image - a similar angle but up one level and by day - also not so cold! Note (centre) the drain cover, which has melted off the snow over it: someone's been having a hot bath, maybe. The view is downhill, northwards.
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 1 Feb 2009
0.02 miles
4
Roofscape of Roman Road
Once you're up on the roof to fix a new aerial, you might as well take a picture of the elevated view while you're up there - and so I did.
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 19 Dec 2008
0.02 miles
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Night-time snow scene in Roman Road (1) ...
... looking uphill from a first floor window.
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 1 Feb 2009
0.03 miles
6
Hoverflies feasting on fennel
For a certain space of the day, these fennel flowers were teeming with busy hover flies - two varieties visible here. Although they resemble wasps - for their own protection - once you know they are harmless they appear safely fascinating. For close-ups, see Image and Image
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 9 Aug 2009
0.03 miles
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Larger hover fly
This larger species stood out among its smaller cousins: Image
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 9 Aug 2009
0.03 miles
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Insect on daisy
Suitably camouflaged, this insect seemed to hang around this daisy flower head, even when not feeding.
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 5 Jul 2009
0.03 miles
9
Moth on interior wall
At the risk of turning Geograph into Biolog, can anyone identify this fine moth, photographed on an inside wall of one of these houses: Image?
Thanks to Keith Edkins for this: Twenty-plume moth (Alucita hexadactyla) - compare http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/alucitidae.htm
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 1 Jul 2008
0.03 miles
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Hoverfly cousins
The hoverfly on the right (black with yellow apostrophe markings) was the Image among the Image The species on the left was smaller and closer in markings to a wasp: orange-yellow with wide and narrow black lines.
Image: © Zorba the Geek
Taken: 9 Aug 2009
0.04 miles