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Looking at the pic matt_outandaboot posted today shows a few big hills obvious ones to me are Ben Vorlich and Stuc a Chroin both easy to see from Fife today with good visibility
300 yards from my house along with these two I can chuck in Ben More, Stob Binnein,Schiehallion,Glen Lyon Munro's,Ben a Ghlo ones,Ben Chonzie,Ben Lawyers lot,a few of the southern Cairngorms,the Cairnwell Munro's,Mayar and Dreish and chuck in 3 wee hills not quite 3000' Ben Vrackie,Ben Ledi and Farragon Hill
Quite a vista


 
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This was the view from my bedroom window last Wednesday

https://flic.kr/p/2j9F7Ef


 
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Grass needs cutting.


 
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on a good day..... the woman across the road getting dressed


 
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On a clear day from upstairs and if there is snow on it...... Lochnagar.


 
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View from my garden. Corn Du and Pen y Fan in the distance, Sugar Loaf front and centre behind the Skirrid. Big lens though...


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 6:19 pm
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Good views over to Birnam Hill. With binoculars I can just about make out "Rake and Ruin".

I love where I live. 🙂


 
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Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically over the plains 🙂


 
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Nearest big landmark is Twickenham Stadium, but can see it from my house.  Given the suburban nature of the area we have the good fortune of looking out to a small river and parkland at the back.


 
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Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.


 
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Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically over the plains

Torquay?


 
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The million from my bedroom window and if I go up the street I can see Kinver Edge, the Sheepwalks, the Clee Hills, Clent and Abberley Hill


 
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Abberley Hill

Father was a fighter jet instructor for some years. They used to use the clock tower as a dummy target!


 
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My neighbours house at the front and my garden at the back


 
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Give over Flashy. I thought he flew Sopwoth Camels


 
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A kebab shop


 
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A bit hilly out my front door.

Stages 1,2 and 7 of the ArdRock Enduro...
...and for the roadies, from Simon Warren's 100 Climbs series - Buttertubs Pass, Oxnop Scar, The Fleak, Turf Moor, Greets Moss and Grinton Moor.

Also, lots of sheep!!!

Cheers.


 
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😀


 
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Gypsy Glen and Cademuir.


 
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This is what I see when I open the curtains in the morning. Scout Moor turbines across the valley

Well ... not for the 362 days a year when it's lashing down and the cloud is so low you can't see a bloody thing, but... you know... for those few days a year, it's lovely

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Pap of Glencoe, Beinn a Bheithir, Loch Leven, Garbh Bheinn (Ardgour version), Sgor nam
Fiannaidh. And Meall Mor which is in loads of the Harry Potter films apparently.


 
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The Pub.
I'm also directly under the Mach loop flight path.


 
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Junkies mainly.


 
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My slightly overgrown hedges, my car, and the houses t’other side of the road.


 
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From my garden we can see the ridge South East of Ben Vorlich.
From above Dunblane, most of the southern Highland boundary, so Ben Chonzie, Ben Vorlich, Stuc a'Chroin, Ben More, Stob Binian, Ben Ledi, Ben Venue, Ben Lomond, Ben Authur (Cobbler), Ben Vane (I think), Ben Vorlich (Argyll), the Gargunnock hills, the Forth towards Edinburgh and of course the Ochils (which we were stood on today).


 
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From my bedroom window, the Northern Corries of the Cairngorms. In fact, all the way from Bynack Mor across to Sgorr Gaoithe.

Various other sundry hills (including Meall a Bhauchaille, Craigellachie, Carn Avie, Beinn Gulabin) from other windows. .

I'll be honest - the view is one of the reasons we bought the house.


 
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Top of the Fiddlers Ferry chimbley and cooling towers. Not for much longer though. Also can usually hear Creamfields when it's on.


 
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Sometimes, on a warm summers day, I can see the mother and daughter who live next door hobbling around their garden in underwear trying to get their disobedient dogs back in the house.  It is not an appealing sight but I can’t help looking


 
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The Moritz Schulte, at least for the next few minutes


 
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Top of the Fiddlers Ferry chimbley and cooling towers. Not for much longer though

If you ever find out when they're coming down, please do tell us! I know a good socially distanced place to watch from.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 7:26 pm
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Cant you see Fiddlers Ferry chimbleys from everywhere in the north west of England.

It won’t seem right with them not there. I put them in my Rivington illustration

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I can clearly see Lord Herefords' Knob


 
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Decent sunsets.

Either that or Dingwall is regularly on fire...


 
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.


 
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https://imgur.com/a/DWXXEam

We get these odd mists rising from the field at various times of the year, always worth a pic or two.
No hills as we're on the flat side of Doncaster. House on the park, so the park basically. 96 acres so I'm told of grass, avenues of trees, football pitches in season, the town cricket and hockey pitches, the spire of the 1829 church on the top road, a primary school and the backs of the Georgian townhouses on the far side of the field. Through the gap in those you can just see the finishing straight of the Tour de Yorkshire stages on the old Great North Road.


 
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

What? You live in the same block of flats as Flashy?

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.


 
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From the house: Stirling castle, Dumyat and the Wallace Monument (but only from the bathroom, it's like the house if 1ft too far to one side).

Ooh - and the Touch Hills.


 
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I can clearly see Lord Herefords’ Knob

I've often sat on it.


 
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Mamores


 
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Out of the back in Oxfordshire I see assorted wildlife and green. Beyond that is another couple of lawns then fields.
https://flic.kr/p/2gWaZVK

The view out of the front it this with Wallingford to the left hand side before the hills in the distance.
https://flic.kr/p/XfhN98

In Weymouth the view is a couple of degrees around from this:
https://flic.kr/p/QR1Sc7


 
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Eh, it's changeable. Somedays it's oilrigs, sometimes cruise ships, typhoon jets, folk queuing outside the bakers......


 
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Back, wallace monument, dumyat and rhe ochils. Front stirling castle, ben ledi and ben lomond and on a clear day the white corries and ben vorlich. Love where i live.


 
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Solsbury hill
A hill with a university on top
Another hill with a tower on top known for cheeky singletrack


 
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I can see clearly now.

The rain has gone.


 
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If I lean out from the front door I can see Pembroke Castle. Birthplace of Henry VII don’t ya know.


 
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If I squint through the smog down the hill into Southampton centre and over the water, sometimes we can see the north coast of the Isle Of Wight! 😆


 
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What an interesting thread! Really enjoyed descriptions and the pics and it needs
more pics!
Our small but glorious garden at the back
https://imgur.com/a/tIb3cW6
A Devon lane at the front but 5 mins cycle away is this view
https://imgur.com/a/uHGQRAN
The village Below and sea, well the Channel would be in this pic if you panned out a little bit.
https://imgur.com/a/mK1VHSo


 
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The two towers on a good day ( of Emley moor) if we can’t see them it’s about to rain approx SW from us I would rather be seeing some of the above!!


 
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An Teallach, Coigach, Suilven, Stacey Pollaidh


 
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NT 500 024 makes my day every morning to see the maidens paps from my window.


 
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I can see some kind of ridge that I’ve never been able to confidently identify, potentially wedlock edge, but I’m not sure.

Also Birmingham city skyline on a clear day from the bottom of the cul de sac.

Brum is easy to make out and is pretty much exactly 20 miles away in a straight line. Can’t make out any features on the ridge so it’s evidently ‘quite far’ away.

Edit - also we can see the tops of the trees on Cannock chase from our bed, which is nice.


 
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Tap o Noth, The Buck and Clashindarroch Wind Farm.


 
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I'll join in this one for reasons that shall become obvious!

From the front of the house - looking straight down onto the River Lochy, and sticking its head up above the riparian birch wood is the summit of Ben Nevis. Carn Mor Dearg and Aonach Mor are obscured by the big oak tree on the river bank, but to the right of the oak the long ridge of the Grey Corries is currently lit up by the evening sun. Looking right from the front of the house I can see the Caledonian Canal and 'my' Corbett Beinn Bhan. Druim Fada also in view.

The east view is just sycamore at this time of the year but once the leaves are down there is an old stone arch bridge built by Thomas Telford with the Grey Corries above that.

Out the back of the house is a view down Loch Lochy with Gairlochy basin close. The backdrop is the munros Meall na Teanga and Sron a Choire Ghairbh. I have a stand of mature Scots pine coming up to the back fence.


 
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Trees
https://flic.kr/p/7q7raL
No snow today though


 
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My dignity


 
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This thread needs more pics!


 
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I think I can narrow your house down to one or two Waderider - if I’m thinking of the right bridge.


 
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Photos of Stacey Pollaidh please.


 
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FOD, Malverns and closest at 200m ,the Cotswold Escarpment


 
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People pulling over statues like it’s the fall of communism 🙂

Tbh it should be mountains in Spain but I’m a little stuck here for the mo.


 
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Front: Apple tree
Rear: Apple tree


 
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Our driveway

The boreen


 
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Leeds Bradford airport.


 
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on a good day….. the woman across the road getting dressed

Bad day in my case.
Must move to a better neighbourhood.


 
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I can almost see RAF Menwith Hill (It's the Yanks really) I can't hear them but I bet they can hear me.
Oh & the White Horse at Kilburn.


 
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I can see the ochils, the flare from grangemouth fuel refinery (if i stand on my toes)
And the top of knockhill, which overlooks the racing circuit.
Could be a lot worse.


 
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I can see clearly now.

The rain has gone.

Me too 😉

Johnny Nash or Jimmy Cliff


 
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I can’t see the stadium, but I can see the trees in the park that razorrazoo’s house backs on to...


 
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Pretty much the same view as OP, but chuck in St Andrews, the quarry at Balmullo and Leuchars/Tentsmuir as well. It's not a bad view at times:

And from the actual doorstep we're regularly treated to sunsets like this:


 
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Keith Allen's house.


 
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Our front Leeds Liverpool Canal, lots of ducks and gobby geese.
Out back, Pendle Hill, Whinney Hill tip in Altham, the Coppice Accrington.


 
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A'Chailleach one way, the Feshie hills the other. And a lot of sheep. Many, many sheep.


 
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Front door step- not sure much, a road and a hawthorn hedge.

Back door step- fields and the Northern start of the Lake District.

Utility door step- rolling fields, Solway coast and SW Scottish fells.

Some nice sunsets from that side of the house too


 
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I want to live where @felltop lives but without the midges


 
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Rivy pike the mast and winter Hill out back

Fiddlers out the front and just for Bregante's benefit almost the isle of man


 
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I can usually see my nudist neighbour. Sometimes she also has her daughter around too :-O

This is the view from our last house - we moved out as the farmer that owned this field wouldn't sell us a small patch of land to the side of our house. We now know why as there is now planning permission in for residential development. I would be gutted if I was the person that lives there now.


 
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Malverns


 
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Mawddach estuary


 
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Swizzels Matlow factory, the home of Love Hearts and other vile compressed powdered sugar tablets. The start of the road that heads out to The Fox and a bunch of local hills. And, if you can be arsed to walk for a minute, Kinder. And sheep obviously.


 
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On a clear day, I can see the Dent d'Oche and the Cornettes du Bise on the other side of Lac Léman. On a really clear day, Mont Blanc...:-)

https://flic.kr/p/s3Muvn


 
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