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In the right conditions the installations on Portsdown Hill can be seen from the footpath south of Oliver's Battery. These include the towers at the Naval Research Establishment [[94772]] (the left-most white obelisk) and (I think) Fort Nelson.
©Pierre Terre
Houses in Prior's Way, Oliver's Battery, backing on to open farmland (so far).
©Pierre Terre
View north west from Old Kennels Lane, Oliver's Battery, Winchester. 1960s houses and in the background, South Winchester golf course which covers the western third of the grid square.
©Peter Jordan
Adjacent to the local shops, on Oliver's Battery Road. Judging from its appearance, I would guess it predates most of the residential development
©Peter Jordan
Oliver's Battery is a village south west of Winchester. It adjoins the city, so it's really a suburb. The quaint name derives from the prehistoric earth work which was used as a camp by Oliver Cromwell during the Civil War. Today, there is mainly 1960s residential development and the shops seem to be the heart of the place.
©Peter Jordan
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This suburban street in Oliver's Battery is also part of the route of the Clarendon Way footpath from Winchester to Salisbury. It has views across the Itchen Valley to St Catherine's Hill.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking west past Texas Drive towards a mass of poppies, from below the recreation ground.
©Pierre Terre
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©Michael FORD
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A large Bronze Age round barrow.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Though long known as Oliver Cromwell's Battery, the earthworks here are actually probably Roman, on an Iron Age site. The shops [[44863]] and church [[44872]]can be seen through the trees.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A cast concrete boundary marker in Oliver's Battery Road South. I think this marks a corner of the former Municipal Borough boundary - the modern City of Winchester district extends far beyond.
©Pierre Terre
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©Thomas Coward
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Poppies and long grasses swaying in the wind, a wonderful sight even on a grey day like this. View towards Compton from the footpath below Priors Way, Oliver's Battery.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.5km north<br/>St Mark's Church is in the background.
©David Spender
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Badger Farm Road bisected Oliver's Battery in the late 1960s and is now one of Winchester's main links to the M3. This pedestrian subway links the two halves of Oliver's Battery Road today.
©Pierre Terre

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