Turning off the main road past the Windsor pub (seen here on the left) you travel down a road which once led to the Windsor colliery. The whole area was flattened in the 1980s and is gradually being reclaimed. The first phase of this was to landscape the edge of the site down by the stream (not really in the picture; it starts behind the houses to the right of the road) creating an unexpectedly pleasant garden walk. Next a new development of houses was built...
Sorry, I know it's not a very good photograph, but it's difficult to get a good view of these houses when you've got to be back home in five minutes!
Surprisingly varied for a set of developer-built houses, these have been built on the land reclaimed from the Windsor colliery. It is probably the flattest bit of land in the entire valley, undoubtedly firm as mines always left an unmined column under the surface buildings, nicely landscaped (well, behind these houses anyway) but I wouldn't give much for the soil in the gardens!
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