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Training gallops and trackway
©Ron Strutt
Dist:0.4km<br/>Runs side by side with the Wessex Ridgeway, almost to the outskirts of Marlborough.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.4km<br/>No horses out today on the gallops either side of the well-maintained bridleway.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Long straight track that seemingly goes on forever, beside a gallop. I have deliberately dropped back from my companions to ensure geograph status!
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Training gallops run to the left of the track for a mile or two along the top of Barton Down, as you walk the Wessex Ridgeway towards Avebury.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridleway is part of a national trail or long distance route. There are gallops either side of it.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Training gallops run alongside the Wessex Ridgeway on top of Barton Down. The two walkers and their dog are returning home to Marlborough for lunch on New Year's Eve.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.5km<br/>Racehorses are trained along these gallops. A footpath runs parallel.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The gallops are in the foreground. The clump of trees in the valley beyond the gate marks the position of Manton House Farm.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Classic downland country. Barton Down is to the left of the road.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Leads from the Wessex Ridgeway on Barton Down to Old Eagle on the Marlborough to Rockley road.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.8km<br/>A band of magnificent fir trees hides Manton House from sight as you walk towards Avebury along the Wessex Ridgeway.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.9km<br/>This milestone is almost unreadable but there is enough to indicate that the small town of Wootton Bassett is 10 miles away.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>The byway is in very good condition. This makes it popular with dog-walkers.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>The ubiquitous Claas combine harvester is here gathering a crop of linseed grown within a horse training circuit.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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