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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Looking across the dry valley between Yew Hill and Compton End.
©Jim Champion
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The original church on this site was composed of flint and rubble, built around 1155. A Norman nave with a 13th Century chancel has been added.
©Jim Champion
Dist:0.4km north<br/>In the foreground are some of the graves in the churchyard of All Saints church, beyond the beech hedge some of the more recent (2001) buildings at All Saints' CE school.
©Jim Champion
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Housing at the southern end of Attwoods Drove
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The eponymous house at the Compton End end of Compton End, so to speak. The gardens, designed by the brother of Lewis Carroll's 'child friend' Alexandra Kitchin, have some fine topiary.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking northbound along the M3 motorway, which divides the parish of Compton and Shawford, with Compton on the left and Shawford on the right. The road bridge carries Otterbourne Road over the motorway. In the distance is the bowl-shaped St Catherine's Hill (site of an iron-age hill fort) and to the right of this the M3 enters the Twyford Down cutting.
©Jim Champion
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A bus on the Otterbourne Road crosses the M3 between Shawford and Compton. In the distance is the Twyford Down cutting.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>M3 looking south from bridge near Shawford
©Steve Rigg
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The lower end of the valley is used to graze horses and cattle
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>View from Hurdle Way towards Compton End. Not sure what is raised in the wire pens in the foreground - pheasants? In the distance are Northfields Feed Mill [[39558]] straight ahead and Tywford Church [[28441]] to the right.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking through the field gate on the corner of Attwood Drove
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.6km east<br/>This old gate is alongside the start of the path that leads down from the end of Place Lane to the subway beneath the motorway.
©Jim Champion
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Seen from Hurdle way on Yew Hill
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Donkeys in a field below Yew tree Farm, Compton end. The houses are at the north end of Martins Fields. Beyond is the ridge running up to yew Hill
©Pierre Terre

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