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In the distance is Breaches Wood, a typical Chiltern beech hanger.
Behind the house is the famous Selborne Hanger, a beautiful beech-clad hill beloved of the 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, who also lived at The Wakes.
The line was closed in Dr Beeching's drastic remodelling of Britain's railway network in 1965.
The posts have now gone, but there is still a bench; and the copper beech tree, just visible on the left, is now a fine, mature specimen that shades much of the Green.
Behind it is Beech Tree Court, houses formed out of old farmbuildings.
Beeching closed the railway line, and the village has been bypassed by the A541; the modern village website proclaims that 'there are no shops in Nannerch'.
The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.
Ruswarp station is the first stop on the Whitby to Middlesbrough railway line – mercifully ignored by Beeching, much to the benefit of the many isolated villages lying in the Esk valley
Prince Albert planted the beech tree, to be seen to the right of the picture, in 1860.
There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.
As the railways since Lord Beeching's cuts do not visit Louth, the sign (left) pointing to the station has also gone.
It is also unusual (in this region) in being composed mainly of beech trees, though there are other species too, notably oak and sweet chestnut.
The hotel served both the community (which had grown greatly in the 19th century after the colliery was opened) and railway travellers, for it stands near where the pre-Beeching station was.
On the apocryphal 'clear day' it is possible to see the Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove, the Lickey Hills, Frankley Beeches, Clent, Abberley and the Clee Hills.
In the later view (I6501), smart cars line up at the same time as the Beeching axe is being sharpened.
As the railways since Lord Beeching's cuts do not visit Louth, the sign (left) pointing to the station has also gone.
Up to the time of Dr Beeching's 'axe', its station at nearby Mardock was served by the single track Buntingford Branch railway line which also ran through the villages of Widford, Hadham, Standon, Braughing
It is also unusual (in this region) in being composed mainly of beech trees, though there are other species too, notably oak and sweet chestnut.
The Beeching plan axed the Otley to Skipton line via Ilkley with the final through train on Saturday 20th March 1965.
The fine lawn in front of the house was often the venue for tennis tournaments in the inter-war period, and the fine copper beech tree (right) still stands.
