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Dist:0.2km<br/>This rather shy postbox stands half-hidden in a hedge close to the brow of Rooks Hill. It is emptied at 10 o'clock on weekday mornings and an hour earlier on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>From Gaunt's Common to Chalbury Common.
©Mike Faherty
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©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>The post office used to be in the left-hand building of these two; it closed in the early/mid 1980s. The postbox is emptied at 3pm on weekdays (a revised time displayed over the original plate) and at 10:15am on weekdays.
©Chris Downer
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©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the footpath from Clay hill: persistent and excitable. One tried to kick me, perhaps because I hadn't brought any treats.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the footpath from Clay Hill. Horses beyond were to prove difficult.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>A Church of England school for children aged 4 to 8, covering the parish of Holt and its neighbours.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.6km<br/>On the footpath from Hinton Martell to Rooks Hill and Gaunt's Common.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is St. James First School.
©Stuart Buchan
Dist:0.8km<br/>This traditional finger-post has still got its original Dorset finial, giving the location across the centre ('Horseshoes', apparently, is the name of the junction) and the six-figure grid reference below it. For a close-up of the finial, see [[1741171]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>A telephone box flanked by a postbox and a parish noticeboard, opposite [[944536]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>A close-up of the finial from the finger-post (see [[1165570]]), giving location and grid reference details.
©Chris Downer
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©Toby
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©Toby

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