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©Toby
Dist:0.3km<br/>Rapeseed, with a solitary field poppy.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>This Victorian postbox is in the wall of an outbuilding opposite Penny Black, the cottage which used to be the post office. See [[1064167]]. It is emptied at 11:30am on weekdays and at 10:30am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>A terrace of twelve thatched cottages, reputed to be the longest in England; C18, with later front additions. Originally estate cottages, listed by English Heritage: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=107403&mode=adv
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>These twelve thatched cottages form one of the longest continuous stretches of thatch in the country – see [[452373]]. The second one along, with the lamp, is called Penny Black and was Manswood post office till its closure on 18 December 1985. There is a postbox in the wall of the outhouse opposite, still in operation – see [[1064169]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>This line of a dozen cottages in a Dorset backwater is the unlikely location of what is reputed to be the longest unbroken stretch of thatch in Britain. This may be true; however it is a claim contested by [[480422]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>These paths are within Oakhills Coppice.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
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©Toby
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©Toby
Dist:0.5km<br/>K6 style telephone kiosk, it is right on the grid line.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>Becoming a rare sight
©Toby
Dist:0.5km<br/>Across farmland to the hamlet.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.5km<br/>On Crichel Lane.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.5km<br/>This section of Crichel Lane coincides almost exactly with the gridline between this square and the one to the south.
©Chris Downer
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©Toby

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