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Colletts Bridge Lane, WISBECH, PE14 0EF

One of the few older buildings here, these cottages are located at the northern end of Collett's Bridge Lane. The view was taken in southerly direction. This narrow lane turns off Gosmoor Road just west of Collett's bridge. It runs in northerly direction, providing access to properties located alongside it. After turning east and back towards the A1101 it becomes an unsurfaced and unnamed track which doubles as a public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1266951 along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.

Presumably this willow once grew on the bank of the Wisbech canal, now infilled. The track seen at left connects Collett's Bridge Lane with an access road/public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.

The surfaced road ends by the house seen in the background. Here the road becomes an unsurfaced track. This narrow lane turns off Gosmoor Road just west of Collett's bridge. It runs in northerly direction, providing access to properties located alongside it. After turning east and back towards the A1101 it becomes an unsurfaced and unnamed track which doubles as a public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1266951 along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.

The track seen in foreground serves as an access road and is also a public footpath, leading past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1267558 in Elm, further to the northwest.

The track seen in foreground serves as an access road and is also a public footpath, leading past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1267558 in Elm, further to the northwest.

This narrow lane turns off Gosmoor Road just west of Collett's bridge. It runs in northerly direction, providing access to properties located alongside it. After turning east and back towards the A1101 it becomes an unsurfaced and unnamed track which doubles as a public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1266951 along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.

The sign shows junction with Gosmoor Lane.

This track turns off Collett's Bridge Lane, leading into fields which adjoin the road in the west. This narrow lane turns off Gosmoor Road just west of Collett's bridge. It runs in northerly direction, providing access to properties located alongside it. After turning east and back towards the A1101 it becomes an unsurfaced and unnamed track which doubles as a public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.

The grassed and planted over strip seen at right marks the location of the infilled Wisbech canal. The track seen in foreground serves as an access road and is also a public footpath, leading past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1267558 in Elm, further to the northwest. The Wisbech Canal (opened in 1797) - planned as a means to improve the status of Wisbech as a trading centre - linked the River Nene at Wisbech with Well Creek at Outwell. It was constructed on embankments for most of its 8.4 km length because of the low level of the Fen landscape. When the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway opened in 1883, running parallel with the canal, the coal transported by the railway was initially loaded into boats for further transport but by 1922 all traffic had ceased and in 1926 the canal was abandoned. Derelict for many decades, the section nearer Wisbech was filled in during the early 1970s, allowing for the construction of the A1101/Churchill Road link without destroying the historic town centre. The rest of the canal was used as a landfill site. Sections which were not buried under the new road (A1101) have been planted with trees and can be walked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisbech_Canal

This narrow lane turns off Gosmoor Road just west of Collett's bridge. It runs in northerly direction, providing access to properties located alongside it. After turning east and back towards the A1101 it becomes an unsurfaced and unnamed track > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1266951 which doubles as a public footpath, leading southeasterly past properties along the infilled Wisbech canal and reconnecting with Collett's bridge. Followed in the other direction, the footpath runs along a field's edge, skirting the infilled canal and a short distance further to the northwest, traversing it. The path emerges at Chapel Lane in Elm, further to the northwest.