Guards Memorial (Ginchy to Lesboeufs road) Somme

[delta]

I was looking checking the route from Ginchy to Lesboeufs on Google Maps ( as one does....)

The photographs seem to show some buidling work taken place just south of the Guards Memorial

Has some, who has been there recently, tell me the imact (if any of the view down to the Quadrilateral and Leuze Wood?

 

Many thanks

 

  

[Michelle Young]

I imagine it is something to do with this.

Michelle

 

[Don Regiano]

I suspect this was also a consequence of the development.

 

 

 

[delta]

Well it certainly makes sense that a wind farm is being built across that ridge;

The quadrilateral will be well and the line of Straight Trench will be very easy to identify form now on

  

[Don Regiano]

1 hour ago, delta said:

Well it certainly makes sense that a wind farm is being built across that ridge;

 

  

 .... if you don't mind the blot on the landscape!  Can see them from some distance away.

[nigelcave]

They seem to have gone wind electricity-generating mad in the Somme area - and, indeed, south west of Cambrai. I sometimes wonder at the economics of it all, not to mention the carbon footprint in making the things and so forth; but doubtless it is for the environmental good. A positive is that you get new interesting tracks to drive/walk along, getting close or even on to places that were otherwise inaccessible.