Hill House Farm overbridge, view west, 4 October 1994
Hill House Farm overbridge, view west (see all photos of the same view)
Boundary fences have been installed and topsoil has been cleared from the line of the motorway, but no work has yet started on Hill House Farm bridge. In the distance, a start has been made on Gorton Brook underbridge.
Structure 15 (Gorton Brook underbridge)
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