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©J Whatley
Dist:0.3km<br/>A view looking south to the lych gate of St. Giles Church.
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.4km<br/>A few hundred yards south of Stanton St. Quintin.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view from the south-west shows the South Aisle (nearest the camera) and the South Porch. These date from 1851, though the porch incorporates earlier features such as a twelfth century arched doorway (seen clearly here). It seems to me rather unusual that the only entrance to the church is on the side away from the village.
©David Purchase
Dist:0.4km<br/>The village is quiet for most of the day, but it wakes up at times. When the school closes for example. Not sure if the horse riders are pupils or just passing through.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The church is seen from the road through the village. The lych gate in the foreground is a fine example of ornamented Arts and Crafts Gothic, and dates from the same time as the extension of the chancel (nearest the camera), i.e. in 1888/9. It is odd that the entrance to the church is on the south side (see [[2505373]]) even though the only public access is from the north (as here). It is thought that there was there was once a north porch as well, but the evidence (as described in the 'short guide' to the church, to which I am indebted for these comments) is far from conclusive.
©David Purchase
Dist:0.4km<br/>The white headstones mark the graves of personnel from nearby RAF Hullavington who died during WW2. All were under 30, some in their teens. There was a temptation to omit this image, but a mistake forgotten is more easily repeated.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The load first seen in [[1381220]] is a little nearer home. A minor puzzle here, too early to be from this year's crop but they looked too fresh to be from last year's. Perhaps they were stacked in the field protecting them from the elements.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>At the end of June he is either late with last year's or early with this. Probably this from the look of them.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Note the parapet (and Armco) on the left and the change of colour in the central reservation.
©J Whatley
Dist:0.5km<br/>Seen across fields from Kington Lane.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>"Stanton St. Quinton is one of a group of villages to the north of Chippenham on fairly flat land. The highest point is 118 metres in the west while the lowest is 77 metres in the north-east. The geology is a mixture of Cornbrash and clay of the Forest Marble and Kellaway beds. The exposed Cornbrash has been quarried near the streams as limestone for building, accounting for the numbers of quarry workers, such as the Hickerton family, in the later 18th and 19th centuries. The flatness of the parish made it suitable for the location of a RAF airfield over part of it and neighbouring Hullavington in the 20th Century." The above and much more of interest found in: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=208
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Seen from Kington Lane.
©Maurice Pullin
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©Andrew Hackney
Dist:0.6km<br/>Service accommodation, originally built to house staff from the former RAF airbase at Hullavington.
©Roger Cornfoot

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