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Dist:0.1km<br/>Lawsbrook is an example of permanent grass pasture, increasingly rare. The grass and hedges are managed so as to encourage wild life (and cows!).
©S Keene
Dist:0.1km<br/>Lawsbrook is an increasingly rare example of unimproved grass pasture, typical of the small fields in this part of Doreset. Within living memory, it has not been ploughed nor had chemicals or fertilizers applied to it. The trees are on an old hedge line.
©S Keene
Dist:0.2km<br/>The public footpath across Lawsbrook has a small railway sleeper bridge across the tiny Lawsbrook stream at its north end. If you walk across Lawsbrook, please don't allow your dogs to run over the grass nor to foul it - it is intended to be eaten by other animals.
©S Keene
Dist:0.4km<br/>Shillingstone's post office is on the corner of the A357 Blandford Road, and Gunn Lane. The village also has a general store farther northwest.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>This George VI-reign postbox stands outside [[1318561]] and is emptied finally at 4pm on weekdays and at 9:30 on Saturday mornings.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.7km<br/>A very rural setting just a stone’s throw from the busy A357 through the village
©John Lamper
Dist:0.7km<br/>An attractive cottage stands at a bend in the main A357 through the village, facing northwest in the direction of Sturminster Newton.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.7km<br/>This part of the A357 through Shillingstone is called The Cross because the cross is alongside, behind camera. The George VI-reign postbox is emptied at 4pm on weekdays and at 9:15am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.7km<br/>A similar view to [[2803156]] (assigned to the gridsquare in which we are stood), zoomed in slightly on the face of the quarry.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>An attractive thatched cottage on the main A357, alongside a telephone box and postbox.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking south from a field gate in Shillingstone Lane (actually, closer to Shillingstone than to the centre of Okeford) towards the chalk quarry on the northern side of Shillingstone Hill. The quarry is actually a kilometre or so south, in [[ST8209]]. We are looking from the southeast corner of the gridsquare, such that only the foreground field, to a little beyond the fence, is within the square.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>The cross has a 15th-century base but the rest was built in 1903.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>A George VI pillar box and a K6 type telephone box at the Cross.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.8km<br/>This is the approach to Okeford Fitzpaine from Shillingstone. This road comes to the attractive village centre in a little over 1km.
©John Lamper
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©Trish Steel

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