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Footpath between houses, off Almond Tree Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.11 miles
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Single-storey dwellings by Almond Tree Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.12 miles
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Bus stop on Almond Tree Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
The road opposite is Honeysuckle Drive. The style of the housing is council-built. Behind the camera is open space in the floodplain of the River Sowe.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.15 miles
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North end of Roseberry Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
Almond Tree Avenue joins, left, and continues north. The building on the right is Hall Green Methodist Church. The sign at the left edge directs to 'Spirit Quarters – new 2, 3 and 4-bedroomed homes' by a developer called Keepmoat.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.15 miles
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Open space by Almond Tree Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
The River Sowe is behind the camera. Much of its floodplain through Coventry's suburbs is public open space managed in a variety of ways.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.16 miles
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River Sowe by Hall Green Road, Hall Green, north Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.17 miles
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Lime tree coming into flower, Almond Tree Avenue, Hall Green, north Coventry
The glossy leaf suggests Caucasian Lime, Tilia euchlora. Alan Mitchell comments that it has been much planted because it is free of the aphids that infest other limes; on the other hand, in the long term, it does not form a pleasing crown as other limes do.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.17 miles
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Open space by the River Sowe, Hall Green, north Coventry
The river winds among trees, right and middle distance. The footpath is a puzzle. It does not lead to a footbridge over the river. It may mark a boundary with housing land. In the distance is Dewis House, the tower block of flats at Riley Square, Bell Green.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.17 miles
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River Sowe downstream from Roseberry Avenue, Bell Green, north Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 11 Jul 2016
0.17 miles
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Hall Green cottages, Windmill Road, Foleshill
Foleshill was a large parish of scattered settlements, with houses built around greens or spread out along roads. Coal mining, ribbon weaving and agriculture dominated the local economy. The parish fields were enclosed in 1775 and Windmill Lane, today Windmill Road, was laid out at this time. These cottages, part of a settlement historically known as Hall Green, would have been built alongside the road some time later. The change of name to Windmill Road reflects the spread of Coventry suburbs into the area at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. See David Fry & Albert Smith, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 22 Mar 2023
0.18 miles