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Maple Close, NEWPORT, NP19 0RF

Located at the SW corner of an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. Louis Blériot (1872–1936), a French aviator, made the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed the English Channel in 1909.

Looking south along Orb Drive past the right turn into St Andrew's Place.

Recently-built houses located between a Morrisons superstore behind the camera and a B&Q store http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1621542 ahead. Part of the B&Q is at the left edge of the view. This location is on the east side of Corporation Road.

Viewed from Orb Drive. The channel runs past the eastern edge of this http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1621542 Corporation Road B&Q.

Located at the SE corner of an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. The close is named after Arthur Whitten Brown, who, together with John Alcock, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland. The flight of 3,186 km (nearly 2,000 miles) in 1919 lasted 16 hours. Both men were knighted by King George V a few days later.

Looking towards houses in Bleriot Close from a footpath http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2626365 along the edge of Liswerry Pill Reen.

Viewed from Kitty Hawk Drive. Alcock Close is part of an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. The close is named after John Alcock, who, together with Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland. The flight of 3,186 km (nearly 2,000 miles) in 1919 lasted 16 hours. Both men were knighted by King George V a few days later.

Located in an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. Kitty Hawk, a small town in North Carolina, became famous after the Wright brothers used a site 6km from the town to make their first controlled powered aeroplane flights on December 17, 1903. Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) achieved worldwide fame in 1927 after his solo non-stop flight from Long Island, New York to Le Bourget Field in Paris, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.

Viewed from the footpath http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199166 along the northern edge of the recreation ground, which measures about 250 metres by 130 metres, and contains three association football (soccer) pitches.

Viewed from the Corporation Road end. Orb Drive is the newly-named road between a B&Q superstore http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1621542 on the left, and a Morrisons store http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2651729 on the right. This view was taken 15 minutes before the 9am official opening of the new Morrisons on Monday October 17th 2011.