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Dist:0.1km<br/>Behind the unassuming entrance is a large collection of cars, some unique. The photographer recently hired one to take his daughter to her wedding.
©Chris Henley
Dist:0.4km<br/>On the north side of the A4 south-east of Calne.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.5km<br/>The talbot was a popular breed of hunting dog, a kind of hound. The dog appears on many pub signs. There are a number of reasons why the dog is used. The dog is the heraldic symbol of the Talbot family, the Earls of Shrewsbury. St Hubert, bred hunting dogs, and had a religious vision while hunting and his dogs became sacred, or it could be directly from this now extinct breed of dog.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The pub stands beside the A4. The building is 18th century and is built of limestone rubble. For a view of the sign [[1881564]]
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Victorian church of Holy Trinity
©ChurchCrawler
Dist:0.7km<br/>The flush bracket is on the southwest angle of the church. For a wider view of the church [[1882353]] and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm21173 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>The rather quaint St Peter's church
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The top of a churchyard monument. For a wider view [[1882216]]
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>A very interesting monument within the churchyard.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>The actor David Hemmings is buried in the churchyard of this little 14th century church
©Kevin Farmer
Dist:0.7km<br/>The church on London Road, was built in 1867 of coursed and squared limestone rubble.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>Primroses among the gravestones. They have two types of flower to ensure pollination by insects with long tongues, such as Bees and Wasps. Ants are attracted to the food stored in the seeds; they also disperse the seeds. In the Middle Ages, a concoction was made from the foliage for treating gout and rheumatism, and an infusion of the roots was used for headaches. When planted in a garden or hung dried on the front door, primroses will attract the company of Faeries. If you have them growing under your care, do not let them die! The Faeries will be deeply offended by your carelessness.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>Sitting on the top of a tomb stone is a big fat woody. In the eyes of farmers, the innocuous-looking wood-pigeon is undoubtedly 'public enemy number one' among British birds. Townsfolk find this hard to credit when they see the chubby, attractive bird quietly feeding in a local park. But in the country the wood-pigeon does immense damage to crops. It's particularly fond of cereals, potatoes, beans, peas and greens.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.8km<br/>At the left Bentley Lane can be seen joining what is better known as the A4, the old coaching road from London to the West.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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