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Dist:0.3km<br/>The minor road from the north into the village of South Marston is at the right of the image. The footpath starts as indicated by the sign and leads away to the left out of shot.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The lane north from South Marston.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view to the west shows the footpath, which doubles as a farm track. Behind the viewpoint the footpath is much less clearly defined.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking south past some older semi-detached properties.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of the huge Honda plant can be seen beyond the trees.
©Jonathan Billinger
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.5km<br/>Many churches have a lych gate built over the main entrance to the enclosed area round the church. The name, also spelt lich or lytch, is from the Anglo Saxon 'lich' meaning corpse. The gate marks the division between consecrated and unconsecrated ground, where the bearers sheltered with the coffin, waiting for the clergyman to lead the procession before the burial.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The churchyard is well stocked with graves and head stones (some double) and table tombs, which are mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>Small medieval parish church with west tower. Built of rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. The earliest part of the church is the nave built about 1140AD.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The gravestone is covered in lichen. Lichens do not have roots, but absorb water and gases through their upper surface, and are therefore sensitive to atmospheric pollution. For this reason they are rarely found around cities and grow best on the wetter west side of the British Isles. Those on trees thrive best on the sunny, south-west aspects of trunks and branches. Disappearance of lichen species can be used to detect rising levels of air pollution. There are three main types. The encrusting forms, including the bright orange/dark yellow 'Xanthoria' grow on roofs, walls, gravestones, signs and tree trunks. Leaf-like species develop flat lobes spreading over bark or stones, and shrubby forms which grow vertically from the ground or hang from trees. Few have common names.
©Trish Steel
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©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>This plaque appears on the front elevation of Rose Cottage [[1845854]] once the home of a locally revered but otherwise largely unknown writer, Alfred Williams. NOTE! This image has a detailed ‘shared description’ which you won’t see by viewing this image on a slideshow. To read it click on the image.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>For 22 years this was the home of Alfred Williams, a local man who was born and who died within a few metres of here. He was a minor literary figure who, whilst locally revered, is little-known. NOTE! This image has a detailed ‘shared description’ which you won’t see by viewing this image on a slideshow. To read it click on the image.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>This plaque is attached to the cottage in this image of Alfred Williams' birthplace [[1845836]] NOTE! This image has a detailed ‘shared description’ which you won’t see by viewing this image on a slideshow. To read it click on the image.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>Cambria Cottage was the birthplace, in 1877, of a locally revered but largely unrecognised literary figure, Alfred Williams. NOTE! This image has a detailed ‘shared description’ which you won’t see by viewing this image on a slideshow. To read it click on the image.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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