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If i had line of sight likd those 1/4 of a mile away up the hill........an amazing vista stretching from Sutton Bank on the N York moors, right up Swaledale towards Reeth. As it is sans elevated situation, I can only see my neighbours' 1980s semis and detached houses.
Convenience and school catchments have their own costs.....I like to think knowing the views would be there is encouragement to get out and about.
I can see Devon, a land free from the tyranny of Cornwall County Council.
I can see nothing but the flat across the road, whose balcony has been stacked with surplus floor tiles and empty tubs of emulsion for the last six years since it was done up.
On the plus side, five minutes' walk and I can dip my toes in the bay of Biscay, which helps me to forget the emulsion.
An overcast Sunday morning, a solitary wind turbine and a load of bush
a twinkly emly moor tower from the front, lights from wakey wildcats to distant rear,its ok!
The Lincoln-Sheffield train line with Sherwood Forest behind, and to the front the local Hospital
Red Mountain and (on a really clear day) Mt. St. Helens to the West, Rattlesnake mountain to the Northwest, Horse Heaven Hills to the Southwest and just neighborhood houses to the East and North (of course, one day the open fields to the W, SW and NW will, no doubt, be sold and turned into houses and it will be time to move).
Straight out of the upstairs windows (house is upside down, built to earth on one side) I can see over the plateau of Bolster Moor, across the Colne Valley to Blackmoorfoot. Beyond that the moors above Meltham and away over the Holme Valley to the Masts at Ingbirchworth and Penistone. Look right (West) and you can see the upper end of the Colne Valley over Marsden Moor, and then S West towards Deerhill, and the Greenfield Road over the tops past West Nab. Look South East and you can see the observatory and airfield at Crosland Moor, beyond that Castle Hill. Lean out and look due East and you can see over Golcar and the scarp of Longwood Edge towards Emley Moor mast.
If you stand on my driveway and look due East, you can see all of the M62 corridor from Fixby to Leeds and Bradford, and beyond that you can see a cluster of power stations: Egg borough, Drax A, Drax B, and Selby. On a clear day you can see the edge of the Wolds/N Yorks moors, but it has to be really clear to see those, it must be getting on for 100 miles away.
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Straight out at a snowy Skiddaw from near Keswick- inspiring every day!
Out the front it's lovely: very unkept garden and soon-to-be-chainsawn Leylandii hedge, then less than a mile to the beach, St Michael's Mount and Marazion, with Cudden Point and the Lizard beyond. Best from upstairs as the brambles are half way up the downstairs windows (did I mention the garden was unkempt?).
Out the back, not so much: The yard with bins, a mountain of purlins off the old roof, a dozen decaying rubble bags full of crap, some well rotted pallets, old shower tray, newish toilet (in a nice sunny spot to be fair, good place for a tea break), stacks of old slates and ivy rampaging over / through the outbuildings. And randomly at the moment, two trays of kale and some anemone rejects.
Surrounded by a late 50's/early 60's housing estate on all sides but to the north a view of Highdown hill, with Blackpatch hill and the South Downs just visible off in the distance
The river Derwent, Bellerive Oval and central Hobart
Forth bridges, fife, Lomond hills... Oh and mossmorran flare
Out the front, beyond the butt-ugly flat-fronted brown brick and net curtains house across the road, the Solent. A swathe of the south coast. The rooftops of Cowes.
More fireworks and Red Arrows than you can shake a telescope at when Cowes Week is on.
Out the back, long, narrow strips of suburban garden, trees and council houses.
A Tor and a hardplace ;d
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