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Another view (see [[1185898]]) of part of the pitch at "Dorset's oldest football club founded in 1879" http://www.webteams.co.uk/Home.aspx?team=gillinghamtownfc , seen from a train arriving from Tisbury. the land to the right slopes gently to the nearby River Lodden.
©Derek Harper
Gillingham Town (Dorset) is sponsored by South West Trains - this picture was taken as the train passed by.
©Lewis Clarke
Dist:0.2km<br/>
©Toby
Dist:0.3km<br/>No remains are visible here, just the mounds to show some of the shape.
©Toby
Dist:0.3km<br/>Former artisan cottages beside the main line railway.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>Main distributor route south from Gillingham to Shaftesbury, and Sturminster Newton.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>No remains are visible here, just the mounds to show some of the shape.
©Toby
Dist:0.5km<br/>No remains are visible here, just the mounds to show some of the shape.
©Toby
Dist:0.5km<br/>This small postbox is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:30am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Take your life in your hands and walk across the track
©Toby
Dist:0.5km<br/>This postbox is incorporated within the wall of the [[1434125]] and receives its last daily collections – predictably the latest in the town – at 6pm on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Local Delivery Office (LDO) for Gillingham, in Station Road, was once also the main post office (called Station Road, replacing an office called Gillingham on 1 August 1971) until 25 September 1995 when it moved into the High Street (see [[1434130]]).
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Railway from Gillingham, looking east
©Toby
Dist:0.6km<br/>Just approaching Gillingham, probably on the way to Exeter.
©Toby
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking west down the High Street, with the Methodist church prominent in the distance.
©Chris Downer

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