IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Heron Court, BICESTER, OX26 6XU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Heron Court, OX26 6XU 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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Image Listing (11 Images Found)
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The Langford Brook under Gavray Drive
This is the stream that caused the Environment Agency to put in the flood warning station shown in Image
This is taken after a dry spell. The gauge board is only just in the water.
But you can see the kind of flows that the bridge has been constructed to cater for by looking at the size of the main arch and the side channels.
And Gavray Drive ? Sounds like one of those forename compound words, like it was built by two guys called Gavin and Raymond, but actually it's named after a town in Normandy.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 20 Apr 2010
0.08 miles
2
Langford Flood Warning Station
After heavy rain the Langford Brook, which goes under the road just here, sometimes forgets what its banks are for and spreads out a bit.
The Environment Agency have put in an early warning station which is in the green kiosk. This automatically raises an alarm when the water reaches a certain level.
And changing the subject, wouldn't it be nice if there were more cycleways like this one.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 20 Apr 2010
0.09 miles
3
Sandpiper Close
A short residential street typical of the recent development in this part of town.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 20 Apr 2010
0.11 miles
4
Pond in Langford Village
The developers of the new housing in Langford Village have wisely left a healthy sized flood corridor all along the Langford Brook which flows through the middle.
This has been landscaped into a pleasant linear park. This pond near the north end is one of several.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 20 Apr 2010
0.15 miles
6
Pollarded Willow
Someone's set about this poor old tree beside the Langford Brook.
New housing in the background just raised up slightly, so any flood water spreads out over the football pitch.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 20 Apr 2010
0.20 miles
7
Railway construction northeast of Bicester, 3 August 2014
The immediate view, from a London-bound Chiltern Railways train, is of the site of a new rail link between Bicester Town station and the Chiltern Line. It will allow Chiltern to run services between Marylebone and Oxford. In railway circles, I understand, this link is called the Bicester Chord. Here is the long base layer which must support the inclined embankment up to the junction of the lines.
The bigger picture is that this is part of the EastWest Rail Project to connect East Anglia with central, southern and western England http://www.eastwestrail.org.uk Thanks to Andrew Bodman for information. He is photographing other parts of the undertaking http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=51155856
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 3 Aug 2014
0.23 miles
10
New railway track advancing
The new tracks for East West Railway are advancing eastwards towards the new bridge for Charbridge Lane in Bicester. Hopefully trains will be running here by 2024 for services from Milton Keynes to Oxford.
Image: © Bob Walters
Taken: 25 Jan 2022
0.24 miles