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Dist:0.3km<br/>Martins Road ends a few yards short of Keevil Airfield. Mist : frost : lane
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Houses near the end of Martins Lane. village
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Keevil airfield has three long concrete runways. It was used by both the RAF and USAF during WWII. Today there are no aircraft based there but it is still used as a drop zone and practice landing strip for the Hercules from RAF Lyneham. There are also various civilian users of the airfield including a circuit racing company.
©John Allan
Dist:0.6km<br/>On St. Martins Road, Keevil. Heading south to the disused Air Force base, used at one time for paratroop training.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>On The Green. Keevil has an active Civic Society as witness [[1437624]] and the restored stocks in [[1437611]].
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Fixed to a wall near the small village green is this plaque to the men of RAF Keevil.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Showing the end of Martins Road and part of Main Street. "Keevil and Bulkington villages both stand on a minor road which winds across the parish from west to east, joining the Westbury-Melksham road to the road from Seend to West Lavington. Most of the houses in Keevil are built along this road, but branching to the south are Martin's Road and Pyatts, both of which contain houses of the 16th and 17th centuries." From: 'Keevil', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (1965), pp. 250-263. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16114 Date accessed: 13 December 2009.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>On Main Street, the village green is just ahead. Keevil seems to be about ready for http://www.20splentyforus.org.uk/ is anyone there interested?
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>The cattle were otherwise occupied. See [[[1077599]]]
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Approaching The Green. Very little traffic through the village at this time of day. Would have been much busier when the airfield was fully operational.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>On a small triangle of grass is a replica of the village stocks.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>A pretty cottage near the green. From the name I assume at one time the village cobbler lived here.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>This early 17th timber framed house was once the village bake house. The cast iron ovens are still in place. Until the early 1900s it was also the village post office.
©Trish Steel
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©Rog Frost
Dist:0.7km<br/>The one and only "for sale" sign seen in the village on this occasion, suggesting most of the inhabitants are happy where they are. Heading for Bulkington about a mile and a half away.
©Maurice Pullin

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