IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Somerford Close, SANDBACH, CW11 1YL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Somerford Close, CW11 1YL 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 (88 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Weeping birch (betula pendula)
This example is at the end of Capesthorne Close.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 6 May 2023
0.03 miles
2
Footpath off Doddington Dive
The path, in a strip of grass, runs for several hundred metres along the back of the houses the length of Gawsworth Drive. It also gives access to a larger open space on the edge of the estate Image
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 29 Dec 2015
0.05 miles
3
Doddington Drive
Doddington Drive was originally a short, dead-end road like others on the Offley estate (hence the turning area in the photo), but when the adjacent Parkhouse estate was built, it was extended through to link the two.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 14 Oct 2017
0.06 miles
4
Unusual sign by Doddington Drive
The sign forbids horse riding, cycling and golf practice in the open space off Doddington Drive. Cycling, I can understand, but horses must be pretty rare here, and the specific reference to golf is unusual. See Image for context.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 14 Oct 2017
0.06 miles
5
Park House Drive, Sandbach
From the junction with Henshall Drive.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 29 Dec 2015
0.06 miles
6
Christmas apples
Set in front of a south-facing wall, this tree retained some of its autumn crop even at the end of December.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 29 Dec 2015
0.07 miles
7
Henshall Drive
Typical of the short side roads on the 1980s Parkhouse estate.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.07 miles
8
Doddington Drive, Sandbach
Part of the Park House estate (1970s).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 29 Dec 2015
0.08 miles
9
Urban footpath through the Parkhouse estate
The public right of way that ran across the land where the Parkhouse estate was built in the 1980s survives as a series of short urban footpaths like this.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.09 miles
10
Old oak behind the Parkhouse estate
Most of the trees in this view date from when the Parkhouse estate (left of shot) and bypass (to the right) were built in the 1980s, but a solitary old oak tree survives from an earlier age.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.11 miles