Geo-Trips :: Around Daventry
Daventry
A drive from Little Brickhill, Sun, 2 Aug 2020 by David Howard
Due to the lockdown preventing my planned trip to Wales I spent time looking around the maps for pre-Worboys signs, which turned up a good few I'd never have got round to looking for otherwise. A matching pair were on a housing estate in Daventry, which like others I discovered were never caught by anyone before on the internet, so gave me somewhere to go on my regular weekend photo trips. Due to their tenuous nature I don't post existing signs here, so there's no way enquiring hands can reach and remove them, but will send anyone who wants to take photos themselves the location in private.
It was a nice sunny day with no holdups, Dunstable tends to be a bottleneck most of the day and has now closed the A5 to pedestrianise the shopping area for covid, and the diversion sign stops as soon as you are forced to turn off. The first time I ended up miles away but did get a couple of new squares blindly driving around Bedfordshire, before rejoining the A5 at Hockliffe, and then checked you can literally drive round the block to get round the diverted road. One thing about collecting photos is any diversion simply adds more to the expected coverage, and with Google Maps I can't get totally lost any more. As it was the A5 itself was completely closed by Daventry, and as a result were sent to Northampton on a route I'd never have used otherwise, and had to wind around silly roads to get back south to where it was open again.
The photos taken in Mill Hill were after I returned to London but on the same day.
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The entrance to Mill Hill East Station
Building works at Mill Hill East Station
As the station remains virtually unchanged since the day it was built I hope this... more
Car park on Ashby Road, Daventry
Tavern Lane looking towards High Street Daventry
Entering Blakesley from Towcester
Badby Road West, Daventry
Going over Stefen Way
New flats on New Street, Daventry
I expect they look very much like what was there before, if not somewhere very... more
Derelict petrol station on London Road, Daventry
New planting by the A45, Weedon
The road was opened around a year ago and not yet on Streetview.
Derelict shack by the A45 in Weedon
Whatever this was the trees have now grown inside it.
Foxfields care home on Weedon Road, Northampton
As you can see it isn't quite finished yet.
Roundabout on Upton Way, Northampton
Field entrance off the A5123, Northampton
This is actually off a roundabout
Roundabout on the A5123, Northampton
Railway access road off London Road, Roade
The line is just beyond the gate
Playground on London Road, Roade
London Road at the junction of High Street, Roade
Parking area off Northampton Road, Grafton Regis
Bungalow on London Road, Roade
McDonald's, Milton Keynes South
Layby on the A5, Little Brickhill
St Bartholomew's church, Greens Norton
St Bartholomew's church, Greens Norton
The entrance to St Bartholomew's church, Greens Norton
Magna grain dryer at Green's Norton Farm
Here's a video of all the versions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWo3WB82p8o
Blakesley Hill before Blakesley
Google's 2011 view had no graffiti.
Blakesley Hill before Blakesley
Maidford Road north of Blakesley
The road through Maidford
I can't find a name but Longwell is on the left.
Tudor Cottage on High Street, Blisworth
Blisworth County primary school
Northampton Road, Courteenhall
Houses on Daventry Road, Newnham
The entrance to Westcombe Farm, Fawsley
House on Quinbury End, Blakesley
BH Garage, Blakesley
Specialising in lawnmowers among other things.
Farm for sale on Charwelton Road, Maidford
Laurels Farm, Maidford
The large barn has been built since 2011
Charwelton Road, Little Preston
House on Charwelton Road, Little Preston
Barn on High Street, Preston Capes
Towcester Road approaching Blisworth
Houses on Towcester Road near Blisworth
Layby on the A5, Milton Keynes
Caddington Grove care home, Dunstable
Layby on Watling Street, Markyate
National Tyres on Houghton Road, Dunstable
National Tyres on Houghton Road, Dunstable
The Printworks, Dunstable
More new housing going up in what was a blank space on the map. I see this in... more
Bushes by Watling Street, North Dunstable
Northampton Road, Grafton Regis
Layby on Northampton Road, Grafton Regis
Tree on Northampton Road, Grafton Regis
Northampton Road at the junction of Grafton Road
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