Latest Images by Jim Baker http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2009-11-12T11:01:09GMT text/html 2008-03-26T23:17:16GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.473809 -1.313316 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739496 4.5 km west of the site of the Bitteswell Aerodrome text/html 2008-03-26T23:14:04GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.474613 -1.312568 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739490 The map shows the pond, but not the trees! text/html 2008-03-26T23:12:05GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.474980 -1.313740 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739485 Unfortunately peaceful country lanes attract surreptitious fly tipping. These are on the verge of the outside of a bend in Penn Lane, near Cloudesley Bush. If a vehicle left the road at the bend it could collide with these gas cylinders, then what might happen? The council were informed. text/html 2008-03-26T23:08:38GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.483425 -1.312725 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739478 The Fosse Way is a Roman road, currently the B4455 hereabouts, but they have a habit of renumbering it at the slightest whim. It will always be known as the Fosse Way, though. text/html 2008-03-26T23:05:53GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.472314 -1.319228 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739473 Looking northwards up the Fosse Way to its junction with Coal Pit Lane (the Wolvey to Cross-in-hand road). The wind & sun powered "Give way ahead" warning sign is activated by approaching cars and was recently added to supplement the chequer board and normal give way signs. text/html 2008-03-26T22:59:50GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.470598 -1.333534 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739464 This looks like a forest from this viewpoint, but Withybrook Spinney is a thin 'V' shaped strip of woodland 7km long, but only 30m wide. text/html 2008-03-26T22:52:21GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.473284 -1.331580 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739457 text/html 2008-03-26T22:50:07GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.477626 -1.305012 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739454 text/html 2008-03-26T22:46:48GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.486207 -1.327555 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739453 I think the small ploughed strip in the foreground may be for a "game crop" to shelter game birds. text/html 2008-03-26T22:40:38GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.485448 -1.336550 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/739445 text/html 2008-03-24T20:08:23GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.463284 -1.252986 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736455 Magna Park distribution & warehousing centre was built on the site of Bitteswell Aerodrome, where Whittle's jet engine was tested in WWII. text/html 2008-03-24T20:03:05GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.478201 -1.266279 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736434 text/html 2008-03-24T19:58:30GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.474608 -1.266781 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736421 Close to the watershed between the Severn and Trent catchment areas. The stream flows north by these trees, and eventually into the R. Trent and then the North Sea. A stream 1km south of here flows south, ultimately into the Severn and then the Bristol Channel. text/html 2008-03-24T19:47:11GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 52.477431 -1.272623 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736378 Not much of a ridge; the land is gently rolling arable fields. The remains of Ullesthorpe windmill is on the horizon. text/html 2008-03-23T12:20:34GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/23886 Jim Baker 57.974477 -6.976271 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/734418