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©Martyn Pattison
©Martyn Pattison
Dist:0.4km<br/>Perhaps not a good idea to test out the razorwire to get any closer!
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>North of Stanton Fitzwarren village.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>In the foreground is what remains of a bridge that took the old railway across a farm track. The trackbed itself carries on towards the Blunsdon to Highworth road.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The path heads east to the small village of Stanton Fitzwarren. The village achieved a degree of fame in the 1970s when the owner of the estate that included the place handed it over to one of a number of 'bogus and bizarre bodies which purport to be religious cults' to quote Hansard http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1975/oct/22/the-unification-church The full story of how a young heiress came under the influence of the cult and persuaded her dad to hand over millions of pounds worth of real estate to a bunch of Korean con artists is probably out there if you search-engine hard enough.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The plantation is just visible at the left.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Missing rail over bridge on the former Great Western Highworth branch. Near to site of Stanton station (left).
©Gareth James
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a view to the south along the route of the ill-starred railway which started out as an aspiration of the good burghers of the town of Highworth and ended as an outpost of the Great Western Railway before a wheel had turned in 1883. Subsequently the line became a little-used branch line of the nationalised British Railways. The last time a train passed this way was 1962 http://www.highworthhistoricalsociety.co.uk/light_railway.htm
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The churchyard has several yew trees one of which can be seen here behind the wheelbarrow. More on the church here...
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>At left is the base of the 17th century church tower with the door seen here [[2646547]] More about the church below...
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The tower was added to the Norman church in 1631 although the pinnacles came later, in the 19th century. More below...
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The doorway with its semicircular hood is typical of the Norman style of church door. There is a similar doorway on the south side which has been restored. This one looks original. The door itself is later being 17th century with a contemporary surround. More about the church below...
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Although the church is Norman in origin the tower is later (1631) and the doorway reflects that. At left is the Ordnance Survey bench-mark seen here [[2646541]] More about the church below...
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The cut-mark-with-a-bolt bench-mark is quite high up at a height of about 1.15 metres above ground level adjacent to the doorway of the church tower on the north side of the church. It dates to the First Primary Levelling of England and Wales which took place between 1840 and 1860. A close-up of the bolt here [[2646546]] and the doorway here [[2646547]] and its context here [[2646550]] More about it on the bench-marks database http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm30323 More about the church below...
©Brian Robert Marshall

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