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©Steve Rigg
Dist:0.4km<br/>This track leads down to the River Winterborne.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridleway is on the edge of the grid square, when the track passes the large trees it will be out of square.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Alas, the A31 is so straight and narrow and the traffic so fast that there are usually two or three holes being repaired at any given time, like painting the Forth Bridge. Damage varies from slightly shifted rows of bricks to nearly 100 yards of wall brought down. Drax Wall was built in 1841 and is up to 8 feet high containing 2 million bricks, with buttresses 10 feet apart. On average, a new hole appears every month. Charborough Park is private so the photographer sought permission to take this photo.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.6km<br/>Drax Wall taken from inside Charborough Park (private so permission was sought). About 8 feet high, enough to mask most of the traffic on the A31, it is quiet and safe this side, another world. The buttresses are about 10 feet apart. Widening the road would mean removing a landmark built in 1841 containing 2 million bricks.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.6km<br/>This track leads down to the A350.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.6km<br/>Charborough Tower can be seen on the right hand horizon.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
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©Chris Downer
Dist:0.7km<br/>At the north-eastern approach to the park; about 1840, stucco, surmounted by a lion. Listed by English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=107684&mode=adv
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.7km<br/>The Lion Gate stands next to Lion Lodge on the edge of Charborough park. Home to the Drax family for generations. The drive leads from the A31 to Charborough House.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.7km<br/>The Lion Gate is a large stone arch that stands at one of the entrances to Charborough Park. This is the lion that stands on top of it. The lion is made from Lithodipyra or Coade stone, a ceramic stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone that was used for some statues up until 1840. It is fired from a clay like mixture.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.7km<br/>Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-107684-lion-gate-sturminster-marshall
©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.7km<br/>Drax wall separates the A31 from the private Charborough Park. Built in 1841 by the Drax family, it is supposed to be 3 miles long and to contain 2 million bricks, one of the longest brick walls in the country. This section is about a mile long, 26 bricks high and 2 bricks thick. Holes in the wall appear nearly every month [[1200346]]. Fatal accidents occur near Stag gate, speed is not the problem, but bad driving. The A31 from the Dorchester bypass to Ringwood is a nightmare - where there is a 60 limit drivers get stuck behind vehicles doing 35-40. Along the side of the Drax estate is one of the only overtaking spots and so people tend to use it. Head on collisions occur at the sharp corner behind the photographer [[1200325]]. Don't risk it.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.7km<br/>Neo-classical statues and urns South of Lion Gate.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.7km<br/>Lion Lodge is the eastern most entrance to Charborough House onto the A31
©Steve Rigg

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