IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Colthurst Crescent, LONDON, N4 2DS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Colthurst Crescent, N4 2DS 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 (167 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Myddleton Avenue / Green Lanes, N4
The roughly square area to the west of Green Lanes, bordered to the north by Gloucester Drive and to the south by Digby Crescent, which used to contain filter beds for the New River waterworks in Image (photographed by Malc McDonald), has been redeveloped into housing - see the map and satellite image http://mortimermaps.appspot.com/wtp3/wtp3.htm?lat=51.565102&lon=-0.095456&lz=17&rz=17<=OS&rt=satellite&lov=None&rov=None .
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Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 18 Jun 2015
0.04 miles
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Blossom on Green Lanes
Green Lanes is an ancient thoroughfare which was originally a drovers' road along which cattle were walked from Hertfordshire towards Smithfield Market. It is plural because it was originally a number of lanes. This is just past Clissold Park, looking in the direction of Manor House and Finsbury Park.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 18 Mar 2015
0.05 miles
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View up Tauheed Close from the entrance to the Castle Climbing Centre car park
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 29 Mar 2014
0.05 miles
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The New River north of The Castle
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The New River is neither new (having been built at the beginning of the 17th C) nor a river (it's an aqueduct supplying water to London, taken from the River Lea near Hertford and from Chadwell Spring, Amwell Spring, and other springs and wells along its course). For further info, see the Wiki entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(England) .
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 18 Jun 2015
0.06 miles
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The New River looking towards Green Lanes
The New River was completed between 1609 and its official opening on 29th September 1613. It was designed to bring clean water to London at a time when the heavily-polluted River Thames was the main source of drinking water. Sir Hugh Myddleton devised a 40 mile course that followed the contours of the land and only dropped about two inches every mile. It ran from springs near Ware in Hertfordshire to New River Head near the Angel, Islington but now finishes at Stoke Newington.
Stoke Newington Reservoirs were constructed in 1833 to purify the New River water and to act as a water reserve, but since 1946 the New River's main flow has ended at Stoke Newington Reservoirs. The West Reservoir is now a leisure facility, offering sailing, canoeing and other water sports.
The New River remains an essential part of London’s water supply. The part to the south of Stoke Newington, where it survives such as here looking towards Green Lanes, is more like a linear pond, but from Stoke Newington Reservoirs upriver the water still flows as it has done for over 400 years. Much of it is followed by the New River Path and here also by the Capital Ring.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 18 Mar 2015
0.07 miles
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The New River north of The Castle (2)
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Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 18 Jun 2015
0.08 miles