2020

SZ0895 : Northbourne: Hill View Road

taken 4 years ago, near to Ensbury, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole, England

Northbourne: Hill View Road
Northbourne: Hill View Road
Often written as two words, Hill View Road is correctly spelled as three. It is seen here from its eastern end, opposite Redhill Common, and it heads past Hill View Primary School and the shopping parade New Parade in this first segment, before arcing to face northwest and come to an end at a dead end, one of the longest dead ends after the last turn-off.

The corner house on the left once housed Redhill Drive Post Office, before it moved into New Parade in the mid-1990s.

The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. They are more often seen under perspex and mounted on two posts, but this one is affixed to the tall pole.

This is photo no.200 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project:
See Link for the complete set of photos.
My coronavirus lockdown walking project :: SZ0795

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, on 23 March 2020 the government announced a lockdown which effectively confined people to their homes, apart from essential journeys which included vital shopping, to help vulnerable people, and one period of exercise per day.

There was speculation about whether driving to a place of exercise, such as a beauty spot, was acceptable and guidelines were quickly made, that exercise should take place locally and direct from home.

So I drew a 2km radius around my home on a map and set out to walk along, across or past every named street and footpath within this circle.

I found that there are 451 such roads/paths, not including roads whose postal address is part of another road already included (such as some Courts, Terraces and Mews).

I undertook to take a photo of a sign for each one, mainly with some context of the road itself. They can all be viewed, along with my 2km map, here: Link


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Geographical Context: Suburb, Urban fringe Roads, Road transport Primary Subject: Road other tags: Road Road Sign Suburb Bungalows Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · My 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown walking project Automatic Clusters: · Redhill Drive [39] · Redhill Common [31] · Road Sign [23] · Heads [12] · New Parade [4] ·
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SZ0895, 201 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 10 April, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 28 June, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0823 9520 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:45.3804N 1:53.0815W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0831 9518
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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