IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Holker Close, STOCKPORT, SK12 1XW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Holker Close, SK12 1XW 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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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (22 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
Charlecote Road
Modern housing infilling between the former colliery railway inclines. Poynton is essentially a commuter dormitory for Greater Manchester.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Mar 2010
0.04 miles
2
Prince's Incline (1)
This was significantly the longer of the two main inclines on the Poynton Collieries railway system. Originally rope-worked, it was converted to locomotive haulage in 1889. Although worked by the colliery company, it was originally built by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (one of the constituent companies of the London and North Western Railway, and still part of the main route from Manchester to London) and remains the only part of that Company's network to have closed.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Mar 2010
0.08 miles
3
Towers Road
A quiet leafy residential quarter in Poynton.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 29 Sep 2022
0.08 miles
4
Prince's Incline, Poynton
Looking west down the incline, from Towers Road.
Image: © John Topping
Taken: 3 Apr 2013
0.09 miles
5
Towers Road (1)
Looking south from Prince's Incline. The status of the road is not clear on larger scale OS as it carries footpath right of way markings. It is however the main access to a substantial housing development to the right of the picture, and local authority mapping shows that it is in fact an adopted highway up to this point. The road started life as a colliery tramroad taking coal from local collieries to a coal yard on the main turnpike road to Stockport. It would certainly have been constructed privately which doubtless explains the uncertainty.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Mar 2010
0.09 miles
6
Towers Road, Poynton
Heading north. Main entrance to Towers Yard Farm on the right. See Image
Image: © John Topping
Taken: 3 Apr 2013
0.12 miles
7
Towers Road (2)
Looking north from Prince's Incline. The status of the road from this point is very unclear. It is not currently adopted, but there are adopted roads leading off it. Its status as a right of way appears to be restricted to pedestrians, as it is only classified as a footpath. There are no signs indicating that it is a private road. The road started life as a colliery tramroad taking coal from local collieries to a coal yard on the main turnpike road to Stockport.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Mar 2010
0.13 miles
8
Prince's Incline (2)
Looking up the incline where it crosses Towers Road. This was the mid point of the incline and there would have been a loop allowing up and down wagons to pass. The buildings are the old workshops of the Poynton Colliery Company, now converted to residential property.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Mar 2010
0.13 miles
9
Towers Yard Farm/Prince's Incline, Poynton
Ancillary buildings, Towers Yard Farm.
Image: © John Topping
Taken: 3 Apr 2013
0.13 miles
10
Farm buildings and Land Rover
Farm on Prince's Incline, near Towers Road, Poynton.
Image: © Peter Barr
Taken: 24 Apr 2012
0.13 miles