IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Birkdale Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG12 4FB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Birkdale Close, NG12 4FB 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.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (63 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
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Footpath at Edwalton
Recreating this 'First' for the square https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/229031
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jan 2022
0.07 miles
3
Footpath at Edwalton
The land on both sides of the footpath dips down as it crosses a former railway line. The gate at the end leads to Edwalton Golf Course.
Image: © Catherine Davis
Taken: 30 Aug 2006
0.07 miles
4
Site of railway bridge
On a footpath near Edwalton which makes use of the site of a bridge over the former Nottingham to Melton railway.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jan 2022
0.07 miles
5
Old railway bed
This was the Midland Railway alternative main line to Nottingham via Oakham and Melton Mowbray.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Sep 2008
0.08 miles
6
Overgrown railway formation, Edwalton
The cutting that once hosted the Midland Railway's line between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray as it passed Edwalton is now almost invisible beneath foliage. Only a little way south of here, the railway is still present, in the form of the Old Dalby test track.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 29 Nov 2014
0.08 miles
7
Edwalton: where the footpath once crossed the railway
In the centre of the picture are the remains of the red-brick parapets of an occupation bridge - now filled in - over the Midland main line from Nottingham to Melton, Oakham, Corby and Kettering, which closed in the 1960s.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 2 May 2016
0.08 miles
8
Edwalton: once the Midland main line
Until the 1960s expresses from Nottingham and the North took this line through Edwalton to Melton, Oakham, Corby and Kettering on their way to St Pancras.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 2 May 2016
0.11 miles
9
Edwalton Golf Course
The west side alongside the former railway line. There is a public footpath along here.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jan 2022
0.11 miles
10
Edwalton: the Hind Almshouses
These almshouses were built in 1927 by Oliver Hind of Edwalton Hall. Plaques either side of the gate record that they were built in memory of his parents and of his brother, Lt Col Lawrence Hind MC, killed leading his battalion on the first day of The Somme, and a nephew, Lt Jesse Hind, wounded at Gallipoli and killed at Thiepval on The Somme.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 25 Sep 2013
0.12 miles