Slack Brook culvert, view north, 3 April 1995

Slack Brook culvert, view north (see all photos of the same view)

A long length of Slack Brook had to be reconstructed as part of the motorway works, possibly because of a change in level required where it crossed the motorway. The new line of the watercourse can be seen marked out on its path across the fields.

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Direction of view
North

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