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<br/>Looking east towards Golden Gate - the entrance to Bowood Park. The field is currently home to new-born lambs.
©Janine Forbes
<br/>In 1987 a corner of Capability Browns Great Park at Bowood House, the family home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, was turned into a golf course. This is the entrance to the Golf and Country Club.
©Stuart and Fiona Jackson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This pub provides a good view of the Avon valley below.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Wadworth's brewery is in the centre of Devizes.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Colin Bates
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Viewed from the Lansdowne Arms. Built in 1840 by Sir Charles Barry for the Earl of Shelburne as the main entrance to the 2,000 acre Bowood House estate (Capability Brown). Now the entrance to Bowood Golf and Country Club. Visitors to Bowood use a different entrance.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The gate house of Bowood by night.
©Robin Hereward-isaac
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A Victorian Well which was restored in 2002. It is situated very near the junctions of the A4 and A342. A rhyme is etched into the lintel of the wells roof: Here quench your thirst and make in me An emblem of true charity, Who why my Bounty bestow, Am neither heard nor seen to flow. Repaid by fresh supplies from Heaven, For every cup of water give.
©Janine Forbes
Dist:0.6km south<br/>The road marks the boundary between the farmland to the east and mainly wooded land and gardens of Bowood House to the west
©Doug Lee
Dist:0.8km east<br/>Built in 1872 to replace the existing school which used to be situated opposite the entrance to Bowood Park.
©Janine Forbes
Dist:0.8km east<br/>
©Colin Bates
Dist:0.9km east<br/>
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.9km north<br/>The edge of Derry woods can be seen on the right.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>
©Colin Bates
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot

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