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Dist:0.2km<br/>Victorian, some earlier features including a 14th century chancel arch.
©Kevin Farmer
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©Chris Henley
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©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.4km<br/>The 1889 Ordnance Survey map shows the manor house, the church, the rectory, a few cottages, and some wells at this hamlet and nothing else. Little appears to have changed in the intervening 120 years..., except for the black bins and the telephone cable.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The line of pylons made this photo an easy one to locate, but it is right on a grid line. There is more of this square visible. This photo was taken from the 1158 Penzance to London Paddington train, having left Castle Cary at 1550.
©Graham Horn
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©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.6km<br/>Agh, the agony of the choice, to the left and Woodborough Road, to the right down an unnamed lane to Piccadilly...
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>A bit of a surprise; this lake doesn't appear on maps or on the satellite image I was using at the time of submission. In the foreground is what looks a bit like the beginnings of a vineyard, but is perhaps an area of parallel drainage ditches with tree guards along them which resembles fencing. This is in the valley of the Avon just west of Beechingstoke. View from a train on the main line between Pewsey and Westbury.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.8km<br/>As the farm immediately adjacent is called Stanton Dairy, I am guessing that these fields are mainly used as cattle pasture. This photo was taken from the 1158 Penzance to London Paddington train, having left Castle Cary at 1550.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.9km<br/>As the farm immediately adjacent is called Stanton Dairy, I am guessing that these fields are mainly used as cattle pasture. This clump of trees is prominent on the map and the aerial photo. This photo was taken from the 1158 Penzance to London Paddington train, having left Castle Cary at 1550.
©Graham Horn
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©Doug Lee
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©Stuart Logan
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Piccadilly, Wiltshire, tbat is. The three pairs of semis on Woodnorough Road form a touch of ribbon development in the open countryside. An isolated oak stands near them at the side of this large field of ... grass? View from a train on the main line between Pewsey and Westbury.
©Derek Harper
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Good fertile land, wheat ripening nicely. The white horse on the hillside is between Milk Hill to the left and Walkers Hill to the right. A useful landmark to travellers on the Kennet & Avon canal going east. The figure stands directly in line with the main road passing through Alton Barnes and Honey Street, the centre of the local crop circle industry http://www.ukcropcircles.co.uk/?page=circle-thumbnails&id=176 Not long ago I met a man at Honey Street who knew about crop circles so I asked him if they still thought they were made by beings from outer space. "Oh! Bless you yes," he said "sure to have been. Mind you, folk round here think outer space begins at Devizes."
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Well, the 1889 Ordnance Survey 6" to the mile map shows a railway mile post here at Patney Bridge with that mileage on it, and I do not think that the route has changed since.
©Nigel Cox

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