Grid reference SO6413
near to Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England
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Family Cycle Trail
This flat section is just after a nice short downhill section on the Family Cycle Trail.
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Heavy shower approaching
Walking along the route of a former GWR line in Cinderford Linear Park - towards Bilson Halt. At different times, tramroads, a tramway, a canal and railways proliferated in this valley.
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Early Spring in the Forest of Dean
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Cycleway passing through Crabtreehill Plantation
Cycleway on a former railway trackbed passing through Crabtreehill Plantation.
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Filled-in former sheep grid in Cinderford
Viewed across the southern end of Forest Vale Road near the Valley Road junction.
Here in the Forest of Dean, the grid functioned as a sheep grid. Now it's an ex-grid.
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Site of Letcher's Bridge
The bridge - named after Marcus Letcher, a native of Cornwall employed by the GWR, who moved to the area to be the stationmaster of Bilson station in the early days of the railway - once carried the Crump Meadow tramway across the Great... (more)
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Valley Road cattle grid
This unusual juxtaposition of rural and industrial is on account of the free-range sheep of the Forest of Dean.
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Mineral line trackbed
The foreground bit is used as a cycle path, but it is a road less travelled beyond the fence.
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Family Cycle Trail, Forest of Dean
The Cycle Trail follows the main line of Severn and Wye Railway to the site of Drybrook Road Junction and then the northern part of the Mineral Loop Line. Here the trail is about to rejoin the course of the Loop Line after passing through... (more)
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Family cycling in the Forest of Dean
The track is one of the old dismantled railways of the Forest's industrial past.
A rare beam of November sunshine lights the scene.
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Cycle track at Crabtreehill Plantation
Former railway track now a cycle track at Crabtreehill Plantation in the Forest of Dean.
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Mandarin drake and duck
Ponds were created in Cinderford Linear Park around 1990 and have since been favoured by mallard, coot and moorhen. Today we spotted a single pair of mandarins.
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