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©Tony Woodward
Dist:0.2km<br/>Post office, public house, public seating, telephone box, letter box and free parking.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Foxham Inn is a major part of the village community and has an award winning restaurant. It has its own smokehouse at the back. There is a postbox and a K6 type telephone box beside the pub, the village noticeboard stands beside the car park. In 1935, the Post Office commissioned a new kiosk from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to celebrate the Jubilee of King George V. The K6 Jubilee Kiosk, as it is known, was similar to the K2 box, being made of cast iron and painted red but was 25% lighter in weight. By the end of the 1930s there were 20,000 K6 telephone boxes in use all over the UK.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The church was built in 1878-81 and designed by William Butterfield. It is made of rubble stone with ashlar dressings.
©Trish Steel
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©Tony Woodward
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.3km<br/>The bench mark is to be found on the southern side of the tower. For a view of the church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2045664 and for information on the bench mark http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35373 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height. The walls are heavily covered in lichen. Lichens do not have roots, but absorb water and gases through their upper surface, and are therefore sensitive to atmospheric pollution. For this reason they are rarely found around cities and grow best on the wetter west side of the British Isles. Those on trees thrive best on the sunny, south-west aspects of trunks and branches. Disappearance of lichen species can be used to detect rising levels of air pollution. There are three main types. The encrusting forms, including the bright orange/dark yellow 'Xanthoria' grow on roofs, walls, gravestones, signs and tree trunks. Leaf-like species develop flat lobes spreading over bark or stones, and shrubby forms which grow vertically from the ground or hang from trees. Few have common names.
©Trish Steel
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©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.6km<br/>Foxham, village or hamlet? A bit small but it has a church and a public house, and a post office if it is still there. A disused canal as well with locks (being restored). Well, alright then, village.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>The main part of the village is to the right.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>At the eastern end of Foxham Common.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Toward Foxham.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Approaching the road junction along the lane from the south.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Heading west toward the village. Glad to say he was not exceeding the speed limit.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Approaching Lock Farm. Foxham Locks, mostly restored, are beyond the farm. It may be no more than a mucky ditch now, but one day it will be one of the major highways through Wiltshire. For more see: http://www.wbct.org.uk/
©Maurice Pullin

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