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Orchard Close, BOURNE, PE10 9DF

The plot of land at the end of Stanley Street was a former commercial orchard. In the late 1980s Beech Avenue was joined up with Stanley Street, and the area was redeveloped. The roads have been given names appropriate to the old land usage.

The footpath alongside the stream in Christopher's Lane used to run all the way to Bourne Woods. It is, in law, a restricted byway (the main limitation being on the use of powered vehicles and horses). Here is the sign at the Northern end of Christopher's Lane. The fingerboard pointing back over my right shoulder is along the narrow footpath. The other half is actually pointing along the estate road and footpath in the foreground (the original path was slightly diverted along the pavement of the road). There cannot be many places where a pavement next to an estate road is separately defined as a restricted byway. This suggests that the Bureaucratic mind is not to be trifled with.

This is what we see over the fence at Image] , as best we can.

Warning notice on Image I think this is a warning to maintainers, not to the general public. See this link for details of the risks: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/msa19.htm Giving a quantity as a percentage of weight is disingenuous when dealing with iron-cored, steel cased transformers.

This small distribution unit does not look unusually dangerous to me, yet it has far more warning notices than most, and is decked in barbed wire. There is a small, locked, green pillar outside it marked with a single reflective triangle, arranged as a down-pointing arrow. I've never seen anything like it before.

Gladstone Street doubles back upon itself.

This is the Restricted Byway from the end of the paved road of Christopher's Lane to Orchard Close. I am not sure why officialdom has banned motor vehicles and horses from here, I cannot imagine either of them fitting in! There is a stream hidden in the undergrowth on the right. The track here has a gravel surface.

The poor old stream from the Blind Well field is constrained in this concrete channel at the back of the houses in Gladstone Street.

Traffic calming measures such as speed bumps are not popular with motorists because they have to slow down and it is widely believed that they can cause damage to the car but their use is now widespread in urban areas such as here in Beech Avenue, the town’s longest street plagued by drivers exceeding the speed limit, where they were introduced in 2009 amid much controversy.