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©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.1km<br/>Faced in, presumably, local stone.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>This road runs between Combe Down and Fox Hill. The 'Bradford' is of course Bradford-on-Avon.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is Foxhill Road that runs up from Widcombe through Perrymead to Combe Down.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a photo of the main passage in Firs quarry. Quarrying on Combe Down started around the 1600's but became famous when Ralph Allen took over the quarries and built Prior Park (1740) as a showpiece. All the underground quarries here are being filled with concrete and a major part of Bath's history will be lost forever.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.5km<br/>The post office is at the centre of a small rank of shops set back from the main road.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Once there appears to have been a benchmark close to this location; but the inverted and tilted aspect suggest that it has been lifted out of its original position and returned in an approximate place. See [[[2599862]]] for a closer view of the levelling.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.5km<br/>It's not unheard of to find a cut benchmark with the arrows above the datum line, but the initial feeling about this example is that it is not level. Could it be that this mark has been repositioned in a rebuilt wall? If so, the reference is now unreliable. Maps of the 50-60's list a benchmark close by, so maybe it has indeed been 'recycled' as a feature. See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm39499 for the Benchmark Database, and [[[2599864]]] for the junction view.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.5km<br/>Named after Horsecombe Vale, behind the houses. The shops in [[764301]] are on the other side of the main road and you can see Cley Hill, ST8344 near Warminster in the distance.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Or should that be Arm, a friend of Nelson perhaps? http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446806
©Maurice Pullin
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©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.6km<br/>On North Road, erected to commemorate the coronation of King George V on June 22nd 1911.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>At Combe Down. George VI post boxes were marked G VI R.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Bath at one time had a multitude of nonconformist chapels, many of which were competing to try to win wealthy and influential converts. This one, however, was founded in 1815 as a place of worship for workers in the nearby stone mines and their families.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.6km<br/>At the junction of The Avenue and North Road. Possibly dating from the 1920's or 30's.
©Maurice Pullin

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