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Thorpe Mandeville and Lower Thorpe and the proposed HS2
The information on this web page was prepared in 2012. It has not been updated since then and so it may no longer be correct.
Below you can see a map from the Ordnance Survey. After a short while, a coloured line will appear superimposed onto it. This line shows the route of the proposed HS2 near to Thorpe Mandeville and Lower Thorpe. The line should be accurate as it is derived from data for the post consultation route that was published by the Department for Transport in January 2012.
This line is coloured red for cuttings, yellow for embankments, blue for viaducts and green for green tunnels.
how to use the map below on your own web page
Recent changes to the route
Edgcote is a village that is a few miles north of Thorpe Mandeville. The line of the Consultation Route did not avoid the Roman Villa at Edgcote and the site of the battle of Edgcote Moor. When producing the Post Consultation Route, the line of the route of the HS2 has been moved eastwards to avoid the Villa and the battlefield. This deviation from the Consultation Route starts near to Thorpe Mandeville.
The Post Consultation Route Engineering report recommends: The Post Consultation Route would deviate eastward from the Consultation Route in the vicinity of Thorpe Mandeville. At Lower Thorpe the move would result in direct impact on a listed building.
A report entitled Review of possible refinements to the proposed HS2 London to West Midlands Route puts it more bluntly: The revised route ... would, however, put one Grade II listed building at risk of demolition.
Some details of the affect of these changes to Lower Thorpe
The following map shows the route at Lower Thorpe in more detail:
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As you can see the line of the route crosses between two horseshoe-shaped buildings (that are on the two sides of the road). It is the building on the east side of the road that is a listed building.
Here is a rough map of the area that is provided on the web site of English Heritage. If you click on the image, you can see a larger image.
English Heritage say the above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. Their web site gives a link to the full scale map of the area containing the building.
English Heritage also provide a web page that has more details about the building.
Other web pages
Thorpe Mandeville has a web site that provides information for the village.
Use the following link to see
their information about the HS2.
Jargon
- The consultation route is the route that was proposed prior to public consultation. It was published on 28 February 2011.
- A green tunnel is essentially a deep cutting with a tube put into it, over which grass, trees and soil are placed. It is not as deep as a normal tunnel, and it is much cheaper to construct. This is the definition given on a BBC web page. Here is a link to a photo of a green tunnel.
- The post consultation route is the route that was proposed after the public consultation period. It was published on 10 January 2012.
Credits
The first two maps on this web page have been generated by www.thehs2.com. The underlying maps are provided by OS OpenSpace and these are © Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Ordnance Survey. The generation of the maps uses data provided by www.streetmap.co.uk. In order to superimpose an accurate line of the route of the proposed HS2, the maps also use data which was obtained from a shape file provided by the Department for Transport and released with an Open Government Licence.
The third map on this page comes from the web site of English Heritage. © Crown Copyright and database right 2012. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019088. © British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2012. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
The photo on this page is taken from a web page giving local information about the HS2.