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Dist:0.3km<br/>Still in a rural setting. A brand new church hall complex has been built in the churchyard and linked to the church proper by a shared entrance.
©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.3km<br/>Here in Chilcompton, this brook later becomes the River Somer.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
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Dist:0.4km<br/>A nice piece of Arts & Crafts building, I guess ca 1905.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.5km<br/>This attractive lane has the brook running down it which becomes the river Somer.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Heading for the top of the hill for a few geographs I was redirected by a kind gentleman who advised me I would be unable to get through this way - he was right! The lorry appears to be delivering tar.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>A well organised gang were tackling a difficult re-surfacing job on a narrow road.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Was tempted to call this "A Gentleman of the road" he was directing traffic away from approaching road surfacing vehicles in a polite and easy manner.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Later becomes the River Somer.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking over a fence in Somer Lea. You don't get this sort of thing in the middle of Bristol. It may be rare in Berkeley Square, but not in Chilcompton.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Later becomes the River Somer.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.8km<br/>View northward, down onto the Somerset & Dorset (Bath - Bournemouth) line just before the short tunnel a mile or so before Chilcompton Tunnel, on the gruelling eight miles of 1-in-50/60 up from Radstock to the Mendips summit at Masbury. This Summer Saturday express battling up the bank is the 07.00 from Cleethorpes to Bournemouth West, headed by LMS 2P 4-4-0 No. 40564 piloting SR Bulleid Light Pacific No. 34101 'Hartland'. These engines would have taken over at Bath (Green Park), the train having been hauled by a variety of LNE and LMS locomotives on its extraordinary journey via Lincoln (St Marks), Nottingham (Midland), Leicester (Midland) and Birmingham (New St.). (Before the War it left the S&D at Templecombe and went to Sidmouth and Exmouth by the SR)! Who on earth would have travelled the whole way?!
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.8km<br/>The southern openings of the twin bore Chilcompton Tunnel of the former Somerset & Dorset Railway, closed in March 1966.
©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking up hill towards Fry's Well.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.9km<br/>Or it could be Langley's Lane. The roof of the farmhouse at New Whitchurch Farm appears.
©Maurice Pullin

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