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Go on to Google Maps or Google Earth or whatever you use to look at the Earth, and look at the school in the middle of Bamfurlong, 'Abram and Bryn Gates County Primary Skool' as it was called in the 1960s when I went there, and straight opposite it at the side of the Zebra Crossing, there is a path which runs off at a diagonal in between the bungalows, and that is the Pad, and it is a fublic pootpath, and directly behind the bungalows you can see a pentagon shaped area of rough land, and that is where the tip was, and just look how close it was to those bungalows.

The Pad used to run past the tip on its left side and then across to a pond, where it met the path which came down from the top of Bamfurlong, and along a street which was demolished before my time which was called Cross Street, and it ran parallel to the railway line.

Rather strangely the Pad has now been ploughed into the field, along where it ran across in between two fields to the pond, which I can't understand, because to the left of the entrance to the pad there are four bungalows, but during the 1960s there were only three bungalows, and that fourth bungalow was built in the late 1970s early 80s and the owner of that bungalow blocked off the Pad, because he owns the land upon which the Pad runs, and the locals kicked up a fuss about it, and it went up to the main mon in the Government who decides things about public rights of way, and that officer ruled in favour of the locals, and ordered the bungalow owner to reopen the Pad, because it is a public right of way.

The pond was called the Razzor, and folk used to fish it ...