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Dist:0.1km<br/>Colourful stable doors surround this yard in Ogbourne Maizey.
©Des Blenkinsopp
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.1km<br/>The footpath uses this drive as it takes walkers to Bay Bridge and the A346.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>The byway heads from the village to Ogbourne Maizey Down.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>At this time of year the course of the river should be full of water. Plainly it isn't. The winter of 2011/12 has seen low rainfall and minimal snow in these parts and the water table has fallen.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>The river bed is bone dry and contains leaf fall from last autumn implying that there has been no significant flow of water for many months.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>The August 2007 resurfacing works on a longish stretch of the A346 between Swindon and Marlborough caused not only traffic jams but a permanent mist of chippings and dust, much of which can now be found on the bodywork of my nice black car which was pristine when I bought it two days earlier!
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>The river has dried up completely and has been in this condition for months. At this time of year it should be running freely from its source in the downs south of Swindon. A mild and relatively dry winter has reduced it to this lifeless state.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>The road terminates at a T junction with the A346 Chiseldon to Marlborough Road visible in the distance. It has rained recently but nowhere near enough to put water in the river close by http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2834980
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Rob Purvis
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view to the west shows some pasture with a few sheep. The tree line marks the location of the A346 road to Swindon. The trackbed of what was once the Midland And South-Western Junction Railway is now a track for folk on push-bikes.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Rob Purvis
Dist:0.5km<br/>The pasture in the foreground is in this square. The trees and the red water bowser are in the next square south.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The old Midland and South-Western Junction Railway ran along this route between Andover in the south and Cheltenham in the north under several names. From 1923 on it became part of the Great Western Railway. It did sterling service in two world wars. It closed in 1961 and the trackbed subsequently became part of the National Cycle Network. I was fortunate to be able to travel on the railway before its demise.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©John Firth

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