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The bench mark is to be found on a barn at Alward House. For a view of the barn [[2140314]] and for further on the bench mark http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35878 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:0.1km<br/>The brick built barn is at Alward House. There is an Ordnance Survey bench mark on the angle of the building.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>View across a meadow on the Avon floodplain. The top of Salisbury cathedral spire is just visible in the distance, just right of centre.
©Barry Deakin
Dist:0.2km<br/>Riverside meadow looking very wet after a spell of rain. The house on the hill is at SU178274
©Barry Deakin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Canoeists and kayakers launching from a very wet meadow, with the river at a high level.
©Barry Deakin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Cottages opposite the footpath, which is indicated on the OS maps, crossing the river from Shute End to Britford Trout Farm, but which is disputed on the ground.
©Barry Deakin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Morris Minor parked on Shute End Road.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The modern OS map shows a footpath across to the other side of the River Avon from here, but it has long since been abandoned and there is no route across the river.
©David Martin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Victorian (1837-1901) postbox beside the minor road at Shute End.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Old Style bungalow on Shute End Road Alderbury heading towards Downton
©Jim Goldsmith
Dist:0.7km<br/>All that remains of the second milepost from Salisbury.
©Trish Steel
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©Jim Goldsmith
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is all that remains of the second milepost from Salisbury when the road was the turnpike from Salisbury to Southampton. There had been an Ordnance Survey pivot on the post. For a wider view [[2776019]] and for further information on the bench mark and others in the area http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm29844
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>Early 19th century cast iron boundary post standing beside the old A36.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>The weather vane is on the turret of the Grange. For a wider view [[2776128]]
©Trish Steel

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