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Wyke Road, GILLINGHAM, SP8 4NF

Viewed just after 1pm in mid December. This is a typical scene on a sunny day in winter in the UK caused by the low elevation of the midday sun. This location is latitude 51 degrees north, which means that the noonday sun in midwinter is only about 16 degrees above the horizon compared with about 62 degrees in midsummer.

The sign on the corner of Wyke Road points left (south) along Broad Robin.

Toll House by the B3081, in the parish of Gillingham (North Dorset District), The Old Toll House, Wyke Road, SP8 4NQ. Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1324575 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1324575 Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: DO.GIL

Alongside the B3081 Wyke Road in Gillingham (Dorset) 6 miles from Wincanton (south Somerset).

Viewed from the edge of the Common Mead Lane junction, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4290534 the point where the B3081 Wyke Street behind the camera becomes the B3081 Wyke Road ahead.

The massive wall, apparently partly a retaining wall, is for the grounds of Knapp House and its outbuildings and cottages.

Looking east from Coldharbour.

When I took this photo across Wyke Road on December 13th 2014, little did I realise that it would soon be of historical interest. 12 days later, on Christmas Day 2014, the BBC website announced that parcel delivery company City Link, which employs 2,727 people, had gone into administration. The Coventry-based company, owned by investment firm Better Capital, called in administrators on Christmas Eve after "substantial losses". RMT union general secretary Mick Cash told the BBC: "The way it's happened... that on Christmas Day they've done this to our members is disgraceful." Administrators warned of "substantial redundancies" over the coming days. This is because no buyer has been found to save the company. A number of staff will be retained to help return parcels to customers and help with winding down the company, said administrators Ernst & Young. City Link has stopped accepting parcels from customers at its head office and transport hub in Coventry, its three other transport hubs and 53 UK depots.

This path goes south from Rolls Bridge Lane, reaching Hawthorn Avenue immediately across the bridge.

Knapp House, glimpsed in the distance is 18th century with later extensions and alterations. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110311