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Explore 5: Mill Race
From your Northern Correspondent: a dispatch from Co. Durham The Lanchester Valley Railway Walk runs from Consett to Broompark in Co. Durham and follows the route of a former railway that used to carry iron ore to Consett Steelworks and coal from Langley Park and other collieries. Opened to passenger traffic in 1862 it was…
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Explore 1: The Bicester Triangle
I wanted to walk the same route as a person could 110 years ago, but to stand where it was impossible for them to stand. Which is how I found myself in the Bicester Triangle. Let me explain. If I were 1914 me, following the OS map (on paper not an app), I would find…
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Is Bicester boring?
Is Bicester boring? There was an article in the Guardian some years back that described Bicester as ‘a humdrum town on the less-lovely side of Oxfordshire’. In some ways I think this is unfair…. but it’s also not exactly incorrect.