IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Edes Farm Drive, UTTOXETER, ST14 5NW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Edes Farm Drive, ST14 5NW by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (65 Images Found)
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Distance
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Ashbourne Road
Now entering the village of Rocester. This village has the huge JCB world Headquarters to the west of it.
Image: © Malcolm Neal
Taken: 17 Jan 2022
0.05 miles
2
The Fossor by Walenty Pytel
The Fossor, which takes its name from the Latin for "digger", is the most significant of the sculptures around the JCB site at Rocester. The piece is made entirely of digger parts and is a powerful representation of JCB. At the time of its creation in 1979 it was the largest steel sculpture in Europe.
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 19 Oct 2020
0.08 miles
3
The Fossor, Rocester
The Fossor statue, which takes its name from the Latin fossor i.e. digger. The steel sculpture, created by Walenty Pytel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walenty_Pytel , is made entirely of digger parts and is a powerful representation of JCB. It weighs 36 tonnes, stands 45 feet high and was the largest steel sculpture in Europe at the time of its creation in 1979.
The JCB world headquarters can be seen in the background.
Rocester wiki >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocester
Image: © Brian Deegan
Taken: 26 May 2020
0.09 miles
4
Church Lane, Rocester
Looking towards the junction with Ashbourne Road. The house on the corner (with the tall chimneys) is called "The Former Queens Arms".
Image: © David Weston
Taken: 28 Sep 2017
0.09 miles
5
Church Lane, Rocester
Off Ashbourne Road.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 20 Aug 2022
0.09 miles
6
'The Fosser' Steel sculpture of JCB digger parts with passing JCB lorry
The steel sculpture, created by Walenty Pytel, is made entirely of digger parts and is a powerful representation of JCB. It weighs 36 tonnes, stands 45 feet high and was the largest steel sculpture in Europe at the time of its creation in 1979. It can be seen from the B5030 road. (source Wikipedia)
Image: © Colin Park
Taken: 11 Dec 2012
0.09 miles
7
Reddie Close, Rocester
The road off Ashbourne Road into the new Saxon Brook housing development.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 20 Aug 2022
0.09 miles
8
New allotments
During 2012, the Rocester Allotments Association established these new allotments on the former track bed of the Ashbourne Branch of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Image: © Ian Calderwood
Taken: 16 Feb 2013
0.10 miles
9
The former Queen's Arms Hotel, Rocester
"A relatively unaltered example of late C18 vernacular house, which incorporates elements of an earlier dwelling, and which retains much of its early plan.." (from the English Heritage listing details, see http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/images/44/94/L449461.jpg for an image by Stanley Strudwick taken in December 2002.)
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 11 Nov 2009
0.10 miles
10
Digger-man
I'm afraid I don't know its proper name, we've always called him Digger-man. Near the headquarters of JCB.
Image: © Linda Bailey
Taken: 8 Apr 2007
0.11 miles