Town clerk 'interprets' HS2 alternative route
Mar 31 2010 Buckinghamshire Advertiser
A MAP of where HS2's preferred alternative route for the rail link might run has been produced by Penn Parish Council.
Miles Green, who is the town clerk as well as a local historian, analysed a map of the route on the Department for Transport's website and used contours on an Ordnance Survey map to work out where the track might run.
He said: "I have taken the line of the proposed rail line through Penn Bottom from the map on the website and have superimposed it on to an OS map of the area as accurately as I can.
"There is a little discrepancy as the proposed route map has some artistic licence and is not as accurate as the OS map but the position of the viaduct seems to fit with
the contour lines."
Mr Green said he believed the track would run north of Knotty Green through Great Beards Wood and south of Seagraves Farm, cross Marrod's Bottom by a viaduct as far as the lodge gates of Penn House, then run in a straight line about 300m
south of Penn House, meeting Penn Bottom at about the junction with New Road to Penn Street, and entering a tunnel in Gravelly Way Plantation near the stables before going under the A404 near Inkerman Farm and emerging in a viaduct along Hughenden Valley.
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