IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Captains Close, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 9EA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Captains Close, WV3 9EA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (168 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Bridgnorth Road at Compton, Wolverhampton
The minor road off to the right is Alpine Way. Compton Hospice is behind the trees to the left.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.07 miles
2
Housing in Alpine Way, Compton, Wolverhampton
Alpine Way is a quiet cul-de-sac on the north side of the A454 Bridgnorth Road.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 25 Aug 2017
0.09 miles
3
Housing in Alpine Way, Compton, Wolverhampton
Alpine Way is a quiet cul-de-sac on the north side of the A454 Bridgnorth Road.
It is seen here from the track to the railway walk.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 25 Aug 2017
0.10 miles
4
Bridgnorth Road in Compton, Wolverhampton
The A454 Bridgnorth Road, looking east towards Wolverhampton city centre, from the former railway bridge.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 25 Aug 2017
0.11 miles
5
Smestow Valley
The view of the path under the South Staffordshire Railway Walk from Alpine Way Wolverhampton into the Nature Reserve.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 15 May 2015
0.11 miles
6
Bridge View
The view from the disused railway bridge which carries the Valley Park footpath over the Compton Road, Wolverhampton.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 4 Oct 2021
0.11 miles
7
Bridge Path
The view of the path under the South Staffordshire Railway Walk from Alpine Way Wolverhampton into the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 9 Jan 2023
0.11 miles
8
The A454 at Compton
The bridge carries a long disused colliery railway which the Great Western Railway tried passenger services on in the 1920's. It was closed seven years later in 1932, thirty years before 'Beeching', though it was still used for coal traffic until the 1960's. It now forms part of a nature reserve, See this site for more details http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/compton.php
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 19 Sep 2013
0.12 miles
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Compton Hospice in Wolverhampton
This is at the junction of Bridgnorth Road with Finchfield Hill.
Compton Hospice was renamed Compton Care in 2018, but it is the same organisation.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 17 May 2014
0.12 miles
10
Old railway overbridge at Compton
The bridge which used to carry the old Great Western line from Oxley Junction to Himley and Brierly Hill. The line was originally intended to go to Bridgnorth, but the First World War got in the way of its construction and by the time work resumed, potential passengers had become used to taking the bus service the GWR had laid on in order to - ironically - get passengers used to the idea of making the journey between Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. So the destination of the line changed, but the passenger service was never very successful, lasting only seven years until 1932. Freight traffic lasted longer, but the line closed altogether in 1965 and is now a linear walk known as Valley Park.
Image: © John Winder
Taken: 7 Dec 2014
0.12 miles