No 18 ... Aerial Photos of Old lodge from the 1990s ... No 18.

OL2, looking north east with the stream in the distance

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The line parallel to the road is again clear.

The birch is without leaves and pretty indistinct.  The pines are dark green.  This shows another set of greenery which I assume is gorse, in OL1 near the water trough and the entrance gate.  I am sure that there are only a few remnants of this nowadays.  You can see plenty of yellow on them.

Between the road and M1 you can see a bare track, which is the route of the current bird count. It is not obvious what exactly it is.  it is not obvious as a continuation of the track that from the M1 curves round and down, although it clearly starts from that track.

the track up from the cross roads continues at the edge of the tall pines and sort of meets the bird count route, but they both seem to peter out

there is an interesting impression of beeches avenue continuing onto pippingford.  this is all roughly along the valley,  Some of the lidar maps show lots of ruts, possibly animal tracks following the same general direction.

The M1 was apparently built as a fire break, and is not an ancient track.  The old track is in OL2 and can be seen coming out of the wood on the right and crossing the open patch and moving nearer the M1 , and can be just seen in the wood land before disappearing.  It would have emerged onto the cricket pitch, but this cannot be seen.  Maybe it went up to the wicket itself?

martin