Hawk Clearing
Hawk Clearing
///gent.powers.toneThe old boundary line is unfollowable. When the railroad was built here, the line was built over it and, instead, a route near Hawkesley Mill (a corn mill until its demolition) was chosen to cut a tunnel underneath the railway line. This area of Northfield was historically called Hawkesley, which probably meant the woodland clearing ("ley") where the hawks flew. The Hawk Clearing. To walk through to the Hawk Clearing today, we curve around Hawkesley Cresent at the top of the Austin Village, and then turn right down a footpath called the Mill Walk, ambling gently to the tunnel which cuts under the railway.
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