Popular Science - USA (2020 - Spring)

The initial 143-mile leg of the UK’s HS2 rail

line will run through 60-plus historic sites.

THE UNDERGROUND

Birmingham

by earthworks

settlements

4 /RADBOURNE

Deserted medieval town,

a graveyard

Prehistoric villages

with rough field

boundaries

1 /CURZON STREET
A Birmingham rail yard—
and nearby burial ground
and meeting house

3

4

5

(^910)
10 /ST. MARY’S
12th- century church
and graveyard
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2
7
8
11
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The British Isles
13 /ST. JAMES’S
BURIAL GROUND
19th-century
cemetery in
central London
12 /COLNE VALLEY
Prehistoric agrarian
settlements
ILLUSTRATION BYVIOLET REED
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