No 8 ... Aerial Photos of Old lodge from the 1990s ... No 8.

Entrance to the reserve looking north west, with 'reservoir' in the middle

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The reservoir looks very low and rectangle, as if in original condition.

some of the semicircular earth works are clear in the foreground.

The heath  to the right looks to have been mown with a tractor, and you can see the tyre tracks following the curves down hill.  No obvious scraping as such.  There does appear to be a possible trackway of sorts just in from the first tree from the right along reynards way.  Clearly there are patches of thick heather that have been left with bracken around and in between.  Maybe these were too rough for the mower.

Reynards way has thick bracken right up to it, and presumably the way itself was mown to keep open.

Is that the notice board beneath some big trees?  I am sure this is much more open now, with views across to pippingford.

The path along the eastern boundary has bracken growing right up to it. but it looks as if it is stripes, maybe as a result of vehicle tracks.

martin