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©John Lord

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©John Lord

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©John Lord

Dist:0.2km<br/>Bet it livens up a bit when the basketball starts.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.2km<br/>The Byway comes to an end where it meets the tarmac in Farmborough

©James Ayres

Dist:0.2km<br/>At the end of Love's Lane.
Apart from the occasional small shop or post office this is one of the few businesses left in rural villages, you can't even find a blacksmith.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.3km<br/>A brook runs alongside the street. Cottages on the north side of the brook are accessed across bridges.

©John Lord

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©John Lord

Dist:0.3km<br/>At the junction of Bath Road and The Street, at the west end of the village.

©Roger Cornfoot

Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking north east toward Bath.
Farmborough is in the north Somerset coalfield, a pit was dug here around 1840, reached a depth of about 1400 feet and was closed in 1847 with no coal extracted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_coalfield

©Maurice Pullin

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©Sarah Charlesworth

Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east.
Conygre Brook is on the other side of the railings, probably used for effluent disposal in former days. It rises about a mile west at the foot of Blackberry Hill and continues east to Priston Mill.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking towards the west.

©Roger Cornfoot

Dist:0.5km<br/>Approaching Farmborough.
The rank of houses to the left were probably built between 1900 and 1910, a more modern house is placed between.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.5km<br/>The date over the doorway is 1667.

©John Lord

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