Last Alteration: Sunday 07 April 2013
Amersham Road (A413)
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51°34'45", -00°32'09" show decimal
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Page 17, M12
Amersham Road (A413)
Denham, Buckinghamshire
The A413 runs between Amersham to the north and the A40 to the south, passing alongside the Chalfonts. The A40 end becomes a dual carriageway, and southbound passes an electricity station.
The M25 motorway was constructed right over part of the layby a couple of years after filming.
How to get here:
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Road: A413 - From the A40, turn onto the A413 towards Amersham, and then after a few hundred yards you can turn right into a small road leading to the power station, just before the A413 passes under the M25; the layby is immediately on the left. From Amersham, follow the A413 until it becomes the dual carriageway; the layby is just after passing under the railway bridge, before the M25. Parking: anywhere on the layby. +
anywhere on the layby.
Access: PublicStatus: recognisableLayby
Photograph taken: 4th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Logopolis (1)
Filmed: 22 Dec 1980
Aunt Vanessa pulls her car over into a layby when she realises she has a puncture.
Photograph taken: 25th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Logopolis (1)
Filmed: 22 Dec 1980
Logopolis (1)
Filmed: 22 Dec 1980
A power substation visible behind where the TARDIS has materialised.
Photograph taken: 25th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Logopolis (1)
Filmed: 22 Dec 1980
View of the layby from the TARDIS scanner.
Photograph taken: 25th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Logopolis (1)
Filmed: 22 Dec 1980
A figure watches the activities on the layby from across the carriageway.
Additional Notes:
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Two factors come into play to alter the location from filming; firstly the flourishing plantlife along the carriageway, but more in particular the M25; the way in which filming distorts distance makes the actual position of Vanessa's car and the TARDIS materialisation point uncertain on the layby - it might even have been under the M25 bridge itself!
Other nearby locations:
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Isle of Wight Farm (The Reign of Terror). Road (0.8 miles, 4m) : Exit the layby, crossing the southbound carriageway to head north; pass under
the M25 and then the railway bridge; a righthand lane into Over the Misbourne
where the farm is situated is just after the second bridge. The road to the farm is private, but there is a layby on the far side of the A413 opposite.
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St. Peter's Court (Terror of the Autons). Road (2.4 miles, 6m) : Exit the layby, crossing the southbound carriageway to head north; when you reach the roundabout signposted for Chalfont St. Peter, enter the village and there is a road leading into St. Peter's Court almost immediately on the left. Parking: anywhere in the court.
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Church Lane car park (Terror of the Autons). Road (2.5 miles, 6m) : Exit the layby, crossing the southbound carriageway to head north; when you reach the roundabout signposted for Chalfont St. Peter, enter the village and then turn right into Church Lane; the car park is along the road next right. Parking: in the car park (pay and display)
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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White Plains (The Reign of Terror): 1.15 miles. 
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Tilehouse Lane (The Five Doctors): 1.28 miles. 
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Denham Aerodrome (Fury from the Deep, The Invasion): 1.37 miles.
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Denham Manor (The Five Doctors, The Three Doctors): 1.48 miles. 
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Fulmer Plant Park (Battlefield): 1.93 miles.
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Logopolis [22 Dec 1980]
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