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Santon Court, NP19 0RP

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.

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.

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 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.

Viewed from Kitty Hawk Drive. This is an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) set many long-distance flying records in the 1930s.

Kitty Hawk Drive is the connecting road for several residential streets named after pioneers of aviation. This view is looking in the direction of Somerton Road. The trees on the right are at the edge of a single-track industrial railway line.

The footpath is between Liswerry Pill Reen (drainage channel) http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199165 on the left, and the tree-lined recreation ground.

The reen (drainage channel) is here at the northern edge of a recreation ground. The houses in the distance are at the southern edge of Downing Street.