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Dist:0.2km<br/>A closer view of the farmhouse. From the air its footprint is reminiscent of a continental '7'.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>The actual farmhouse would seem to be the white-painted building at the right of the image. It has a thatched roof.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Generating a lot of dust, the harvester collects the last few square metres of wheat from the field near Overtown Farm.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The harvester has just finished collecting the last of the wheat from the field and is now discharging the contents of its storage tank into a trailer behind the blue tractor.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The harvester was on the home stretch when this image was obtained. The last of the wheat is going into the storage tank.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Another legendary learning environment apparently. Perhaps we should start a new primary category, 'marketing hyperbole'. So new it's not on the maps yet (but is on Google Earth).
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed facing north from the adjacent square. The house in the background is part of Parsloe's Farm. There is some evidence that the bridleway is used for horseriding.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Wroughton and the north end of Wroughton airfield can be seen at the bottom of the photo.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.6km<br/>Alexandra Park is a private sector housing development built on the site of a former RAF hospital opened in 1941 and closed 54 years later. Road names are taken from famous theatres of war.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>The plaque is attached to a sarsen stone. The hospital that once stood here took casualties from various theatres of war from 1941 until closure. These theatres are reflected in the road names in the new housing development that has risen in its place. One of the more well-known patients to be treated here was the Welsh guardsman Simon Weston, severely wounded aboard the Sir Galahad in the South Atlantic conflict of 1982. One of the roads is Falklands Road.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>This relatively small development of new houses is on the site of a former RAF hospital. The stone and plaque at the lower left of the image can be see in close-up here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/837750 There is quite a large abstract sculpture present as well.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking north-north-west. The Spectrum Building [[287897]] with its distinctive yellow external supports is visible slightly above the centre of the image just below the hazy skyline at SU122851. The houses in the lower half of the image are in North Wroughton. Lying between the two is the M4. The white specks are pigeons.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking just east of north. Wakefield House is at SU161825 [[299949]]
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>The main landmarks visible in this view are, at left, Nationwide Building Society at SU155824 [[240582]] and, right, Wakefield House at SU161825 [[299949]]. In between are Christ Church at SU157838, the old Corn Exchange at SU158836 and a telecomms mast at SU159825.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking into the new housing development from the road up to Barbury Castle.
©Andrew Smith

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