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Iffley Road, SWINDON, SN2 1DL

A line of terraced houses stretches away along the south side of Iffley Road.

A Jamaican restaurant on the corner of Rodbourne and Iffley Roads.

Access by permission. The bottom of the hole can at last be seen. As bottoms go, one of the less exciting ones I've encountered albeit larger, and soon to be covered up. NOTE. This image has a detailed ‘shared description’ which you won’t see by viewing this image on a slideshow. To read it click on the image.

A few months on from the last time I was here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3589889 and the view has changed somewhat. The site is still fenced off and this photo was taken from above the locked access gate. It remains to be seen what will happen here, if anything.

The disused North Wilts branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal is truncated at Bruce Street Bridges, but north of this point forms a small and a large pond, the latter now used for coarse fishing. The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton.

The bridge is one of two in close proximity that carry the road network beneath the Swindon to Gloucester railway. This is the easternmost bridge. The bridge complex is best appreciated from the aerial view in Google Earth.

Located near Great Western Way, this bridge carries railway lines over the B4289 in the SE corner of the major Bruce Street Bridges junction. This is one of the key railway crossing points within the town, connecting north Swindon with the town centre. The existing traffic-flow arrangement is a four mini-roundabout junction, with two roundabouts either side of the railway line which runs through the centre. Great Western Way is one of the busiest roads in Swindon, used by c19,000 vehicles daily. It is also the diversion route for the M4 when motorway closures are necessary between junctions 15 and 16. In March 2015, work is in progress on a 12-month improvements scheme to increase the traffic flow through this area. Work is scheduled to end in September 2015.

The gasholder is the light blue structure near the centre of the image. It has been re-painted since the last time I photographed it http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/323249 Also visible in front of the gasholder is St Mark's church, several images of which are in Image The houses in the middle are in Exmouth Street in the same square as the church.