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Dist:0.5km<br/>Muddy field entrance in Bedchester
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Dist:0.5km<br/>The house has a mounting block by the wall.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The bench mark is on the parapet of the bridge [[1859433]] and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34356 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The parapet of the bridge that takes the road over a very small stream at Woodbridge. There is a bench mark on the parapet.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The footpath uses a private drive.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Typical of many older Dorset County Council signs the finger post has a roundel on the top. Hidden under the tree is a K6 type telephone box. In 1935, the Post Office commissioned a new kiosk from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to celebrate the Jubilee of King George V. The K6 Jubilee Kiosk, as it is known, was similar to the K2 box, being made of cast iron and painted red but was 25% lighter in weight. By the end of the 1930s there were 20,000 K6 telephone boxes in use all over the UK.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The roundel with its six figure grid reference on it that is on top of the finger post [[1859386]]
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The postbox is emptied at 4:30pm on weekdays and at 8:30am on Saturdays.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>This signpost retains the original finial, which gives location and grid reference details. Unusually (though not uniquely) for Dorset, the fingers are of metal rather than wooden. The name Childe Okeford is these days written without the 'e' in Childe. In fact, apart from here and on another similar post, I don't believe I have ever seen it as Childe.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>A small Edward VII-reign postbox clasped to a wooden post and serving eastern Hartgrove. It is emptied finally at 4pm on weekdays and at 9am on Saturdays.
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