A trip out to the tip (or Household Waste Recycling Centre, to give it its proper title) at Avonmouth was enough to arouse my interest at the surreal no man’s land that surrounds the Kings Weston Lane site.
This is where the M49 and M5 motorways intersect, it is also home to the Lawrence Weston Solar Farm, numerous wind turbines, the St Anthony’s Park traveller site and a Sewage Pumping Station owned by Wessex Water. All in all it is a strange non-place and one that I wanted to explore further. So a couple of days later I jumped on my bike and headed over there, this is what I found…
![Sewage pumping station](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0023.width-1980.jpg)
Sewage pumping station owned by Wessex Water
![Sewage pumping station](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0027.width-1980.jpg)
Graffiti on the rear of the sewage pumping station
![Scrubland](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0040.width-1980.jpg)
Scrubland adjacent to the motorway
![Underpass](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0055.width-1980.jpg)
What’s going on here?
![Nothing to see here](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0083.width-1980.jpg)
Nothing to see here
![Beneath the motorway](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0057.width-1980.jpg)
Beneath the motorway
![M5 / M49 Intersection](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0068.width-1980.jpg)
M5 / M49 Intersection
![Lawrence Weston Solar Farm](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0074.width-1980.jpg)
Lawrence Weston Solar Farm
![Inviting](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0061.width-1980.jpg)
Inviting
![Pathway to nowhere](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0085.width-1980.jpg)
Pathway to nowhere
![Industrial Installation](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0089.width-1980.jpg)
Industrial Installation
![Pylon and spring blossom](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0091.width-1980.jpg)
Pylon and spring blossom
![M49 Flyover](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0094.width-1980.jpg)
M49 Flyover
![Sewage Pumping Station](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0098.width-1980.jpg)
Sewage Pumping Station
![Cycleway Entrance](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0102.width-1980.jpg)
Cycleway Entrance
![Small Red Car](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0117.width-1980.jpg)
Small Red Car
![Wind Turbines and Hill](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0123.width-1980.jpg)
Wind Turbines and Hill
![Intersection with traffic lights](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0137.width-1980.jpg)
Intersection with traffic lights
![Submerged Postbox](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0142.width-1980.jpg)
Submerged Postbox
![Shaddick Tyres](https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/gidsey/prod/media/images/Intersection_0143.width-1980.jpg)
Shaddick Tyres