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Canalside housing near Red Bull, Cheshire
The housing is in Congleton Road North. The canal is the Trent and Mersey Canal Macclesfield Branch, which joins the Macclesfield Canal about six hundred metres ahead at Hall Green Lock.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 4 Sep 2014
0.06 miles
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Path out of the woods
The gate marks the end of the woods of the Lawton Hall estate, though the housing beyond it seems to have been built on part of the same estate.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 2 Jul 2022
0.07 miles
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The Gritstone Trail beside the Macclesfield Canal.
Heading north along the Gritstone Trail beside the Macclesfield Canal towards Hall Green.
Image: © Jeff Buck
Taken: 12 Jul 2018
0.08 miles
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Old Milepost by the A34 in Hall Green
Cast iron post by the A34, in parish of Church Lawton (Congleton District), between Red Bull and Hall Green, on cut grass, back to stone low garden wall, on North West side of road. Cast iron CCC1898, erected by the County Council in the 19th century. An earlier photograph can be found here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5622740
Inscription reads:-
: CONGLETON / 6 MILES : : CHESHIRE / 1898 / COUNTY COUNCIL : : RED BULL / ¼ MILE / NEWCASTLE 6 :
Maker:-
: W H SMITH & CO / MAKERS / WHITCHURCH :
Milestone Society National ID: CH_CONC06
Image: © Billy Hufton
Taken: 3 Jul 2023
0.10 miles
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Old Milepost by the A34 in Hall Green
Cast iron post by the A34, in parish of Church Lawton (Congleton District), between Red Bull and Hall Green, on cut grass, back to stone low garden wall, on North West side of road. Cast iron CCC1898, erected by the County Council in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: CONGLETON / 6 MILES : : CHESHIRE / 1898 / COUNTY COUNCIL : : RED BULL / ¼ MILE / NEWCASTLE 6 :
Maker:-
: W H SMITH & CO / MAKERS / WHITCHURCH :
Milestone Society National ID: CH_CONC06
Image: © J Higgins
Taken: 1 Aug 2003
0.10 miles
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Path through the woods
The woods form part of the Lawton Hall estate.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 2 Jul 2022
0.12 miles
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Knowsley Lane Bridge No 95
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 1 Apr 2015
0.13 miles
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Knowsley Lane crossing the canal
Crossing the Hall Green Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal.
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 11 Jul 2015
0.13 miles
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The Spinney, Hall Green
The name is that of a road on a housing estate, not a woodland. The dual carriageway layout of this short dead-end road is curious.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 1 Aug 2020
0.14 miles
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Knowsley Lane near Hall Green
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 11 Jul 2015
0.14 miles