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Ripplesmore Close, SANDHURST, GU47 8PE

Longdown Lodge was a large stately home built after the arrival of the railway in Sandhurst in 1849. This house was built around the 1860s with the development of the area with Broadmoor Asylum and Wellington College being built. It is one of the few large houses to remain in Sandhurst, with most being demolished for the land to be redeveloped. The gardens of Longdown Lodge were developed in the 1950s to form the Longdown Lodge Estate, which is to the north. Roads such as Greenways, Beech Ride and Broom Acres are part of this estate. The lodge itself has been converted into flats.

A house next to Longdown Lodge Image], perhaps originally part of the lodge or ancillary accommodation as it shares the same architectural style. The house is built into its retaining wall on Crowthorne Road.

A street party on Broom Acres on the Longdown Lodge Estate in Sandhurst, to celebrate the Royal Wedding on Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Crowthorne Road, Sandhurst, with a view towards Crowthorne, showing a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights and a bus stop.

The one way section and junction to Wellington Road off Crowthorne Road in Sandhurst. This section of the road used to be open in both directions with a priority to traffic from Crowthorne Road, but after numerous accidents it was changed to one way. If the large white wall to the right was demolished (there is a pavement behind leading to the gates of the properties there) and the road expanded, it could be used as a two way street, although it is likely a traffic calming measure nowadays to prevent it being used as a bypass to avoid the high street.

Looking past the stop sign on Harts Leap Road, over Crowthorne Road to Wellington Road. The junction is quite difficult to exit as there are high fences on both sides.

A footpath between the corner of Beech Ride and Orchard Gate, and Wellington Road. The footpath is called Calvert Walk as underneath it (and under most of the Longdown Lodge Estate) is a culvert or underwater stream, which appears in ditches on Wellington Road. During heavy rainfall such as the day this photograph was taken, the lower half of the footpath becomes part of the stream, as water spurts from below.

On a gentle slope, the north side of the Blackwater Valley.

Flooding on Calvert Walk - a footpath between the corner of Beech Ride and Orchard Gate, and Wellington Road - following heavy rain. The footpath is called Calvert Walk as underneath it (and under most of the Longdown Lodge Estate) is a culvert or underwater stream, which appears in ditches on Wellington Road. During heavy rainfall such as the day this photograph was taken, the lower half of the footpath becomes part of the stream, as water spurts from below the path and rushes down to Wellington Road.