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Hillside, South Brent
Elegant early ribbon development along the road northeast out of South Brent.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 7 May 2006
0.03 miles
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Hillside
Heading towards the centre of South Brent.
Image: © jeff collins
Taken: 14 Jul 2020
0.08 miles
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Bishops Mead
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 10 Apr 2010
0.11 miles
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Hillside, South Brent
Road heading Northeast out of South Brent. Heading towards Harbourneford Cross.
Image: © jeff collins
Taken: 14 Jul 2020
0.12 miles
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Former valve house in Hillside
Some effort has been taken to tidy this up since
Image three years ago but someone has chosen to attach a notice about dog mess to the doors.
Image: © Guy Wareham
Taken: 6 Apr 2013
0.14 miles
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South Brent Village Hall
The Village Hall serves the community of the large village of South Brent.
It is on the corner of Station Approach, which runs parallel to the main line from Plymouth to Exeter and Bristol, but does not, sadly,lead to a station. This was closed in the mid sixties when the branch to Kingsbridge was closed.
Image: © Ruth Sharville
Taken: 27 May 2007
0.14 miles
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Former valve house in Hillside, South Brent
This was built in 1873 as part of the village's first public water supply. A reservoir was built behind this valve house collecting water from springs at Underhill, and this valve house controlled the supply down into the village. The inscription above the doors reads "As a token of gratitude to Sir W.R.Carew Bart, this tablet was erected January 1873". The supply had to be augmented around 1900 but remained in use until supplanted by the Avon Dam built around 1954. With thanks to Greg Wall for information in his two books, The First and The Second Book of South Brent, both published by Halsgrove.
Image: © Adrian Platt
Taken: 7 Apr 2010
0.14 miles
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Oak by Vicarage Road
With a short length of old wall. In the background creeper covers a wall of The Manor, the former vicarage https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV46985&resourceID=104 , part of the old Manor farmstead https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV76894&resourceID=104 . A leat (Old Mill Leat) runs near the gate on the left.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 16 Sep 2020
0.14 miles
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Station Approach, South Brent
The main railway line is on the left over the wall, but no station is there now. On the right is Brookwood Close.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 16 Sep 2020
0.14 miles
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Westbound freight heads through the former South Brent Station
On a misty evening a westbound freight heads for St Blazey. This was the former South Brent Station, junction for the Kingsbridge Line, shut in the '60s around 1963 I think.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 29 Aug 2002
0.14 miles