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Forest playground, Ruspidge, Forest of Dean
A set of robustly constructed play items make this playground, just off Buckshaft road, ideal for children of all ages. The colour coded logs in the foreground are the results of Forestry Commission 'thinning' operations.
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 18 Nov 2008
0.04 miles
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Looking up Granny Weavings Lane
Standing in Tramway Road looking up Granny Weavings Lane (with Grindles Lane running to the left this side of the hedge). Granny Weavings Lane gets steeper yet and at the top forms the link to the two, otherwise disconnected, portions of Bucskhaft Road ... one of the few roads that is metalled, becomes a hand-railed footpath and then re-invents itself as a rough tarmac/gravel single track road.
You will see that it is 'No Cycling' down this somewhat steep footpath.
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 22 Aug 2011
0.06 miles
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Granny Weavings Lane - Ruspidge
Between the two power poles is the uphill unadopted footpath known as Granny Weavings Lane. It link Tramway at the bottom with Buckshaft about 150 yards higher up the slope. Somewhat uniquely the footpath cuts into Buckshaft (which is shaped like a horizontal Z) and replaces the road surface with this one and a half metre wide hand-railed footpath. You cannot drive from one end of Buckshaft to the other because of the 'footpath' section in the middle !
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 28 Oct 2008
0.08 miles
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Hewlett Way, Ruspidge
Looking down the unmettale portion of Hewlett Way, Ruspidge towards Grindles Lane, which is the local name for the hand-railed footpath connecting Buckshaft Road with Tramway Road.
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 22 Aug 2011
0.08 miles
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Down Granny Weaving's Lane, Ruspidge, Forest of Dean
Granny Weaving's Lane was really important to the community at the top of the hill as it linked them, in days gone by, to Eastern United Colliery,the chapel on Ruspidge road, the village shop and to the three public houses that served the community. Nowadays the only survivors are two of the public houses.
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 18 Nov 2008
0.09 miles
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Buckshaft Road (the lower section)
Buckshaft Road (the lower section) at its junction with Tramway Road
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 22 Aug 2011
0.09 miles
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Buckshaft Road, Ruspidge
Some council semis on the edge of the Forest of Dean.
Image: © Jonathan Billinger
Taken: 30 Nov 2009
0.10 miles
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The Northerly face of Shakemantle quarry
The calcium to magnesium replacement in dolomite produces a shrinkage, shown clearly here as regular cracks between large blocks of rock.
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 19 Nov 2015
0.11 miles
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Bible Christian Chapel - Ruspidge, Forest of Dean
Originally built in 1857 the Bible Christian Chapel was one of the many small chapels built in the Forest. For a while it housed a mixture of fashion clothes and artworks and received its present name plate of 'Rainforest Chapel.'
Image: © Eric Soons
Taken: 28 Oct 2008
0.12 miles
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Remains at Shakemantle Quarry
A number of structures remain at the derelict Shakemantle stone quarry. The quarry was working up until the 1960s.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 24 Sep 2019
0.12 miles