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Dist:0.1km<br/>This photo shows some blocks of stone that were never removed from this quarry. Owned by a Mr Brewer who was a contractor on the Box Tunnel construction is unusual as it is on two levels.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the top of Box Hill. Heading east toward Corsham and Chippenham.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Until about ten years ago this was RAF Rudloe Manor, although part of the camp is in private hands the house is still disused.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the top of Box Hill. Looking across the valley of the By Brook. Folly Farm is on the hill to the right. Colern parish church stands proud of the skyline right of centre with a water tower to the left.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the top of Box Hill. Folly Cottage shows a chimney or two. Beyond the foreground field the valley drops to the By Brook then rises to the ridge east of Colerne.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Heading south west toward Box Hill, Box, and Bath.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Lower Rudloe Farm is the nearest building to the camera, some of it is just visible among the trees bottom left by the side of the lane. Folly Cottage is behind it. At the top of the hill we come to the northern edge of Rudloe.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Copenacre Quarry was converted into a Naval Stores Depot (part of Spring Quarry Naval Stores Depot) and was in use from the 1940's to the mid 1990's. Here we see a telephone box and a Stores Manager's office in the background. It has now become a dumping ground for the adjoining Hartham Quarry.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.7km<br/>Unusual use of a road sign on a tree near Rudloe, to show the route of a footpath.
©George Evans
Dist:0.8km<br/>The early 19th milestone has a rusty cast iron plate which no longer gives the distance to Bath. For a wider view [[1892243]] and there is a worn bench mark on it http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm33843 Milestones are the original roadside heritage features with many dating back hundreds of years and these historic items are under threat from highway developments.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.8km<br/>Milestone beside the A4. Milestones did not come into general use until the Turnpike Act of 1766 made them compulsory on turnpike roads, these roads were built by private enterprise under licence from the Government and maintained by tolls on those who used them. Before this Act milestones were put up occasionally, often as charitable acts and commemorations. Many Turnpike Act stones still exist. They are usually 2-3 ft high, with the initial letter or abbreviation of the nearest market town show on two faces, and the distance from it. Worn bench mark on side http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm33843
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.9km<br/>A dairy farm seen from the A4 near Rudloe. Colerne is at the top of the hill.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>At the end of an unnamed lane running east from Colerne. The By Brook runs past the farm.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>Showing a dammed area of the By Brook providing a small pond. The field boundary in the middle distance is also in this square, but Rudloe Wood on the horizon is in the next square east.
©Graham Horn
Dist:1.0km<br/>As it climbs the hill heading north east out of Box the A4 passes this interesting group of buildings. Probably missed by most passers by looking out for other things.
©Maurice Pullin

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