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Entrance to Hopewood Hospital from Mansfield Road
There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark
Image on a base stone in the wall (the 10th stone from the left hand edge of the image)
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 1 Apr 2019
0.07 miles
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Joyce Avenue, Nottingham, NG5
The rear of the “Hopewood" NHS hub. The main entrance of this new complex is on Mansfield Road. The development will include in-patient and out-patient mental health facilities for children and adolescents and a new mother and baby unit, together with out-patient perinatal mental health facilities. It is due to open in spring 2018.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones
Taken: 26 Dec 2017
0.07 miles
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Benchmark on Mansfield Road wall bounding Hopewood Hospital
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm114816
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 1 Apr 2019
0.09 miles
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The Day Brook in Valley Road Park
A pond-like section with wetland characteristics.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.11 miles
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Wildlife in Valley Road Park
I was very surprised to find a Little Egret and a pair of Teal (note the green flash of the male top left) in what is still very much an urban environment.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.11 miles
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The Day Brook in Valley Road Park
A pond-like section with wetland characteristics.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.12 miles
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Valley Road Water Meadow
Created by diverting the Day Brook to a meandering course with small ponds in around 2008 as a flood alleviation scheme, the area has developed more of a wetland ecology with extensive reed-beds. The intention of attracting more diverse wildlife, as indicated on the board, has however been fulfilled.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.12 miles
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Pond in Valley Road Park
Part of the most easterly section of this linear park which has been allowed to develop a natural wetland habitat.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.13 miles
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Typha latifolia and phragmites australis
Growing close together in Valley Road Park – a view for comparison of the two species. Typha in the foreground with phragmites behind.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 26 Jan 2022
0.14 miles
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Hazel catkins
Due to the warm autumn, the catkins are well advanced even before all the leaves have fallen.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 2 Dec 2022
0.14 miles