Mysterious place in the UK

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Can anybody here tell me where this is?
http://tinyurl.com/36zmxqu

[Richard1966]

broken link

[jomifl]

A bit too cryptic for me

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Hopefully this will work,
http://tinyurl.com/326klqr
The only other clue is that there is a fascinating story behind it.
It looks to me like the upper part of the photo is marsh or flood plain.

[alexanderd]

sorry link not working

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That's funny, it works for me. How about this?http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.
com/temp-2010-09-02/aAhmjGtwHFgFDcHFosvGnfemh
sHAeEqpykkdjEAsocrqnaAJnAovqErbtgqI/Screen_sh
ot_2010-09-02_at_16.38.39.png.scaled1000.png?
AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&Expires=1
287311430&Signature=4%2F33UmPDqe5bidEk0I9R%2B
Q%2FMOPw%3D

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or this http://s3.amazonaws.c...dEk0I9R%2BQ%2FMOPw%3D

[alexanderd]

keep gettng acess denied for some reason so cant help you

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In which case, I wonder if this links works. It's a blog, and the image is midway down the page.
http://jonathanglazier.com/page/2/

[alexanderd]

Well i got the picture but after all that I have to say i have not got a clue!! Sorry

[jack daniels]

where did you get the picture from?

[moonraker558]

Back to the drawing board then.

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Thanks for staying with me this far....

[alexanderd]

No problem, you have got me wondering now!!

[Prudie]

I've no idea but I've seen a similar aerial shot (not of here) and the circle was a horse racing practice gallop.

[redcrx]

http://maps.google.co...188,0.004801&t=h&z=18

[redcrx]

its near stiffkey in Norfolk.

so presumably its the stiffkey whirlygig http://history-blaken...a.org.uk/doc/NL22.pdf

[Prudie]

Well done redcrx

[redcrx]

erm, yes it is, tonyted. Though the photo isnt of essex, its of stiffkey

[A.Guest]

Intriguing redcrx - but how did you possibly locate that on Google maps?