Grid reference SK9018
near to Thistleton, Rutland, England
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Fosse Lane on the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire border
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Cribb's Meadow Nature Reserve, near Thistleton, Rutland
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Lines of trees mark old railways
The line of trees on the right marks the former Saxby to Bourne railway, the westernmost part of the Midland & Great Northern route from the East Midlands to the Norfolk coast, and those on the left the southernmost part of the... (more)
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Farm Track near Wymondham
Looking East along the old dismantled railway
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Reversed connections
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Mill Lane
Towards Fosse Lane.
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Oil pipeline markers by roadside 0003
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Cribb's Meadow
At this time of year a sea of cowslips.
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Former ironstone workings near Thistleton
This was part of the Market Overton quarries. It was the final quarry face to be opened, in the 1950s, when part of Stewarts and Lloyds, and was the last face to close, in 1972. The depth of the face means that it has never been back-filled.
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Former railway embankment
The former Midland and Great Northern line between Bourne and Saxby Junction foprms the southern edge of this field.
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Mill Lane near Thistleton
Looking east
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Ironstone railway relic in the undergrowth
The trackbed of the Buckminster Quarries railway south of Mill Lane, where there was a level crossing, became a farm track after the railway closed and an iron farm gate replaced the white-painted wooden level crossing gate. Nearly forty... (more)
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