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Dist:0.3km<br/>Hod View is a residential street on a steep hillside on the north side of the village of Stourpaine. It looks across the valley of the Iwerne to Hod Hill, hence the name.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the original location of Stourpaine Post Office. About 15 years ago, it closed down and was housed within the garage next door. The garage has now been replaced by housing, and the shop/post office is back where it once belonged.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>This Elizabeth II-reign postbox is set into the wall of [[1152954]] and is emptied finally at 4:45pm on weekdays and at 9:30am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bridleway E18/7 leaves the A350 Shaston Road through the village past this gate and beside the fine stepped brick wall, down towards the Stour.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>A pretty yellow thatched cottage in South Holme.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Former Wesleyan chapel on South Holme; now residential.
©Mike Faherty
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©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated on the A350 between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum, Dorset. The pub is called The White Horse.
©michael ely
Dist:0.5km<br/>Another Dorset church which was rebuilt in the 19th-century (1858 in this case) but retaining the 15th-century tower.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Victorian parish church of 1858 with a C15 tower.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.5km<br/>Thatching underway on a house in Manor Road, Stourpaine
©John Palmer
Dist:0.5km<br/>The lych gate with its wrought-iron cross is late C19. The entrance to the churchyard through it requires a right-angled turn. On the left is Manor Road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.6km<br/>Foreground is the A350. Mid-distance the church at Stourpaine. Background Hod Hill with its iron age hill fort ramparts showing.
©Simon Scurr
Dist:0.6km<br/>For a few yards, the River Iwerne and the Green Lane descending from Hod Hill run delightfully together before entering Stourpaine separately
©John Palmer
Dist:0.6km<br/>All that is left of a country halt on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The little station was opened in 1928 but closed in 1956. The railway, connecting Bath and Bournemouth, was closed in 1966. The line here runs atop an embankment to avoid the Stour floods in winter, a bridge (see right) carries a road under the railway.
©John Palmer

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