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Hollow Tree Way, MELTON CONSTABLE, NR24 2SA

None of these country lanes has a name - the road seen straight ahead links with Hall Street further to the east. The bridge seen in mid-distance takes the road over the River Bure which here is nothing more than a small stream > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1278078. The stream here crosses the lane via a culvert which runs underneath it, only to cross underneath another lane at the same junction about 20 metres further to the west > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1278144. The River Bure rises near Melton Constable, 18 kilometres miles upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head of navigation. It flows into the North Sea by Breydon Water near Gorleston, further to the southeast.

The track seen in foreground doubles as a public footpath. It follows an embankment which once used to carry the Midland and Great Northern Railway line. The trackbed has since been dismantled. Briston and Melton Constable merge into each other and if it were not for the village sign it would be difficult to discern where the one ends and the other begins. For 50 years Melton Constable was the hub of a network of railway lines which were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Railway and left from Melton station in four directions. As recently as 1956, 32 trains per day passed through the station. A victim of the Beeching cuts, the last passenger train arrived on 4. April 1964.

This narrow path follows a short section of the former railway embankment which once used to carry the Midland and Great Northern Railway line. The trackbed has since been dismantled. Briston and Melton Constable merge into each other and if it were not for the village sign it would be difficult to discern where the one ends and the other begins. For 50 years Melton Constable was the hub of a network of railway lines which were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Railway and left from Melton station in four directions. As recently as 1956, 32 trains per day passed through the station. A victim of the Beeching cuts, the last passenger train arrived on 4. April 1964.

The small stream seen here is the River Bure which rises near Melton Constable, 18 kilometres miles upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head of navigation. It flows into the North Sea by Breydon Water near Gorleston, further to the southeast. The railings seen in the background belong to a bridge which takes a rural lane over the stream and northwards to the B1354 (Fakenham Road) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1278144.

This bridge used to carry trains of the Midland and Great Northern Railway line over a rural lane. The trackbed has since been dismantled. Briston and Melton Constable merge into each other and if it were not for the village sign it would be difficult to discern where the one ends and the other begins. For 50 years Melton Constable was the hub of a network of railway lines which were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Railway and left from Melton station in four directions. As recently as 1956, 32 trains per day passed through the station. A victim of the Beeching cuts, the last passenger train arrived on 4. April 1964.

It is towering over the surrounding vegetation which is growing beside the River Bure which here is only a small stream > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1278154.