2010

SX8472 : View of the Bovey Basin from Whitehill Road (2/3)

taken 14 years ago, near to Newton Abbot, Devon, England

View of the Bovey Basin from Whitehill Road (2/3)
View of the Bovey Basin from Whitehill Road (2/3)
Looking just east of north over Higher Loady Park from below the cottages SX8472 : The top of Whitehill Road, Highweek.

Noticeable on the left is the top of the tower of Teigngrace church in SX8473. The pale ground above it is the clay waste mound being formed on the Rixey Park (provisional name) quarry site, mostly in SX8576. The huge Southacre Quarry disappears below it and behind the yellow-green land, which is a grassed mound of clay waste northwest of Preston. The River Teign runs left to right at its foot. The bright strip above it is clay waste at the back of the aptly-named White Pit Quarry. Also visible are the blue-green clay sheds strung along the B3193. These features alone fill SX8575.

Nearer the camera, centre, are the houses at Mount Pleasant SX8573, another good vantage point for trying to understand this disrupted landscape. At close quarters much of it is hidden by trees and bunds.

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Category: Landscape
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Bovey Basin [6] · House whose Grounds [4] · Mound of Clay Waste [2] ·
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SX8472, 46 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Robin Stott   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 19 February, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 1 March, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 849 721 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:32.2387N 3:37.5338W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 849 721
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NORTH (about 0 degrees)
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