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English: Maudland Road, Preston Almost every roadside brick wall in this photograph was built by a railway company, being a series of bridges at right-angles. Beyond the road junction in the background are Roeburn Halls of Residence for students of the University of Central Lancashire. To the right is the instantly recognisable spire of St Walburge's Church. The road going off centre right is Cold Bath Street and the wall forms the parapet of a bridge over the former Longridge railway branch. The wall curves away alongside Maudland Road and beyond the blue road sign becomes the parapet of a bridge over the Lancaster Canal. Maudland Road is on an embankment here and the wall on the left marks its top and also crosses the Lancaster Canal where trees overhang. Diagonally beneath the road junction with Maudland Bank in the background passes the curve connecting the Longridge branch to the Preston and Lancaster main line. Out of sight to the right of the road junction, but referred to by the road signs, are two more bridge spans, formerly giving access to Maudlands goods depot, now occupied by Roeburn Hall. The more northerly of these was built about 1840 and is probably the one that the local highway engineers fear might only bear a heavy vehicle if the driver holds a permit to exceed 7.5 tonnes gross weight.