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Dist:0.3km<br/>The bridleway heads along the edge of Sheep Park Coppice.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bridleway takes walkers and riders out on to the former Tarrant Rushton airfield.
©Trish Steel
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©Brian Ironside
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©Brian Ironside
Dist:0.5km<br/>A close-up of the finial of the finger-post (see [[1868645]]), giving location and grid reference details. However, the grid reference is wildly wrong! There are a couple of instances where an incorrect grid reference is because the wrong digits of the longer reference have been selected (for example, at [[1752520]]); however, I can't see any relevance of the stated digits to the actual location.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>This traditional Dorset signpost retains its original finial, giving location and grid reference details. There is no third finger because the side road leads to an imminent dead end. For a close-up of the finial, see [[1868647]]. The description in this latter image discussed the grid reference, which is incorrect.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>The sign also gives the six figure grid reference on the roundel.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>I was more attracted to the ivy covered gate posts when I took this picture. Beyond the gate is root crops.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>The road here probably maintained its west-east orientation before the airfield was constructed; it now turns sharp right, travelling westward, and swings round down the steep hill into the Tarrant valley some ½ mile to the north.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.6km<br/>Tarrant Rushton airfield played a major part in the Normandy landings of 1944, the first troops landed having been flown out of Rushton Airfield. An important role too at Arnhem and the 1945 push across the Rhine into Germany. Tarrant Rushton's aircrews dropped secret agents into Europe, supplies and arms to the Resistance and SAS troops behind German Lines.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Few farm roads (or bridleways) could be as wide and sturdy as this: because this was once the perimeter road of RAF Tarrant Hinton. http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/tar.html
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>At the former RAF airfield; now used to store agricultural machinery. http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/tar.html
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>From Witchampton to Tarrant Rawston, at Windy Corner.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>Tarrant Rushton was an important airfield for operations during WW2 including support for partisans, special operations and invasions. Was the headquarters for Flight refuelling development post war.
©Colin Foot
Dist:0.6km<br/>Memorial to the men who served at Tarrant Rushton Airfield before and after the War. Tarrant Rushton played a crucial role in respect of the Special Operations Executive and in the build-up to D-Day, when there was extensive use of the airfield by Horsa and Hamilcar gliders.
©Trish Steel

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