No 5 ... Aerial Photos of Old lodge from the 1990s ... No 5.

Beeches avenue, looking south east to Roller stand

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The Google maps kmz file is beeches avenue kmz file

shows the white object on the South Heath.

There are a lot of trees along the road just east of the roller stand, as well as down the slope from the roller stand.

There are trees between the beeches and the start of the M1.

The track of beeches avenue looks covered in bracken, as well as being enclosed by trees on both sides.

There is a proto-sphagnum heath, covered in bracken, but much smaller.  Presumably it was not particularly wet, at least not enough to kill off the bracken.

There is a scrape the other side of the river just north of the causeway.  There look to be trees in the flow of the stream, presumably alder and alder-buckthorn.  It is not obvious if there is a causeway as such, but it is not very clear.  There is at least one pond downstream.

The stream is encroached on both sides by trees

OL2 appears much more open, with the road being clearly visible along the whole length, though a lot of it is covered in bracken.

You can see some of the scrapings in the wood north east of the M1, and the start of cutting into the edge of the wood along the M1.

there is no cut-through slope to the west of beeches avenue, and generally it is a pretty dismal path with only the glade of sphagnum heath as respite.

You can just see the path along the fence going down the stream, and the power lines at the corner in the path

It looks as if you can make out vehicle/ tractor tracks at the bottom of the photo along the avenue, possibly along the exposed fence there.

I cannot see the power lines along the M1, but they could be hidden behind the trees.  There seem to be quite a few birch along the track,which surprises me a little.

martin