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Asfordby Road, MELTON MOWBRAY, LE13 0HT

A short terrace of houses served only by a path sit on a triangle of land between the old Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway embankment and Asfordby Road. The terrace was built in 1878.

The embankment of the former Great Northern/London and North Western Railways' joint line provides a useful walkway through the western part of town, including a river crossing Image Not a formal right of way, it is signed as a permissive footpath

The A6006 Asfordby Road heads away from the town centre.

A classic Jaguar heads out of the town on the A6006.

And no sign of the houses of parliament anywhere! This view is taken from the permissive path on the old Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway Line embankment that served Melton Mowbray North station. The foreground houses are on a triangular plot of land beside Asfordby Road. The houses beyond are on Brightside Avenue, Dorothy Avenue and Rudbeck Avenue. Hawthorn and Elder frame the photo.

The stile marks the point at which the footpath leaves its alignment along the old railway embankment (right). It used to head across fields at this point, but these have now succumbed to housing development Image where the right of way has become a road for a short distance.

Looking upstream from the footbridge that has replaced a former railway bridge that once carried the Leicester - Newark railway, the remains of which can be seen in the foreground. The Wreake is a tributary of the River Soar which it joins at Rothley.

This footbridge has replaced a former railway bridge, the piers of which can still be seen. The line that once ran here was part of an extensive network that connected Nottingham, Newark, Leicester, Market Harborough and Peterborough, originally operated jointly by the Great Northern and London & North Western Railways and now all gone. In fact, regular passenger services were withdrawn as long ago as 1953, although the line continued to be used for freight and the occasional summer holiday special into the 1960s. An excellent account of this fascinating line - the reasons it was built and why it declined - can be found in P. Howard Anderson's book 'Forgotten Railways - The East Midlands', published by David & Charles in 1973.

The footbridge crosses the River Wreake along the line of a dismantled railway. The Geographers visible are Julia Hood (at time of picture not a geographer!), Martin Addison (just), Alan Murray-Rust and Stephen McKay.