IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ashley Rise, ALEXANDRIA, G83 9NL

This photograph was taken from the southern end of the street, where it meets Strathleven Drive.

This is a view from the southern end of the street. Directly behind the photographer's position is a meadow crossed by a footpath; in fact, the photograph was taken from the edge of the meadow, which is shown in Image and Image Not far away is Image

The pond is located in a wooded area about 200 metres ENE of Image The houses in the background are in Strathleven Estate. For other views, see Image and Image

Compare Image and Image, which show the same pool. As in those photographs, the houses in the background are in Strathleven Estate.

Stirling Road is in the foreground, and the Mill Fields construction site is in the background. An existing junction here has been given a new roundabout. The red sign says "no right turn for construction traffic".

The stone wall is alongside the pavement on the western side of Stirling Road. The same wall appears on the left in a picture of Image; from the point where that picture was taken, the bench mark is about 100 metres further along the wall. In the present picture, the wooden fence separates an area of housing (Strathleven Estate) from the meadow on the left, just as indicated on the map (the view direction for the picture was chosen to make this correspondence with the map easier to see). A rivet can be seen on the top of the wall, with an arrow-like cut mark pointing at it. According to the Ordnance Survey's own records, this third-order rivet bench mark is 36.023 metres above Newlyn Datum. The following description, written by another contributor, explains the terminology.

The houses in the background, centre to right, are in Strathleven Estate. The structure in the left background is an old doocot that stands near Image; it is shown separately in Image For earlier pictures, see Image and Image

See Image for a view from another angle. The pond is an old feature of the estate: it is represented on the first-edition OS map of 1860. The present picture was taken a few seconds after an autogiro (which I managed to photograph) had flown almost overhead; see the comments at Image

These are Azure Damzelflies, Coenagrion puella, at the margin of a Image There were many damselflies here, and some larger species: see Image

(Libellula quadrimaculata) This dragonfly and many damselflies (see Image) were at the margins of a Image