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Looking southeast from the highest point on the ramparts of Spettisbury Rings (a.k.a. Crawford castle) - an iron-age camp on a spur overlooking the village of Spettisbury and the Frome valley. The farmland is mixed arable and dairy.
©Jim Champion
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©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>Sits on the ramparts of this ancient hill fort 81 metres above sea level.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>About six miles of trackbed of the previous Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway in North Dorset have been opened as a "trailway" for pedestrians & cyclists; safer than walking through the village along the A350, where pavements often vanish! http://www.north-dorset.gov.uk/trailway_sites_open_to_the_public
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.5km<br/>A hill just South of Spetisbury was used as a hill fort by a British tribe, protected by great ramparts around the living area. The Romans took over in 45AD, the battle left many skeletons discovered when the railway nearby was constructed around 1860.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Louse Lane runs South from Spetisbury, under a vanished railway bridge of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, and past a hilltop British fort, taken over by the Romans in 45AD. Wonder where the name comes from?
©John Palmer
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the southernmost of Spetisbury's three postboxes and it is emptied at 11:15 on weekdays and at 10:15am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking upstream from Crawford Bridge
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.6km<br/>The River Stour passes the back gardens of properties on Spetisbury's High Street. We are looking upstream from Crawford Bridge.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.6km<br/>The steep back gardens tumbling down to the Stour, taken from Crawford Bridge. This delightful scene makes up for the busy A350 at the front of the houses. The River Stour can rise 2.6 metres in a flood, all these houses should be safe. Spetisbury village is long and thin, jammed between a hill and the river, and the road takes up some of the space available.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking north on the approach to this ancient stone bridge, which crosses two arms of the Stour as they converge, one in this square and one in the next square north.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.6km<br/>This view is across the 15th century nine-arched bridge, looking towards neighbouring Spetisbury. Note the vee-shaped refuges for pedestrians.
©John Lamper
Dist:0.6km<br/>Carrying the minor road to Tarrant Crawford and Shapwick over River Stour; the bridge straddles two squares, but is marginally more in ST9102. Medieval, an ancient monument: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=103347&mode=adv
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>The trackbed, formerly belonging to the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, now forms a recreational linear trail. On the historic OS map the village of Spetisbury is spelt with two t's.
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km<br/>Downstream, looking east from Crawford Bridge
©Mike Faherty

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