2020

SZ0895 : Northbourne: Forton Close

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

Northbourne: Forton Close
Northbourne: Forton Close
Forton Close is an infill development dating from around 2000, off Saxonhurst Road and turning left and right at the end, behind the back gardens of the latter road.


The sign dates from the time of the development and is a shortlived design. It originally had the borough coat of arms at each end and a slightly shinier oval-ish shape can just be detected now.

This is photo no.148 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: Housing, Dwellings Suburb, Urban fringe Roads, Road transport Primary Subject: Road other tags: Infill Development Suburb Road Road Sign Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · My 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown walking project Automatic Clusters: · Road Sign [23] ·
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SZ0895, 201 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 11 April, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 17 May, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0820 9585 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:45.7311N 1:53.1062W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0824 9584
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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