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Southern entrance to the forest
©Ron Strutt
Dist:0.4km<br/>The avenue leads away from the viewpoint. The gates on the other side of the road are part of the Tottenham Park estate. They are no more than decorative as anyone could walk round them.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the south-eastern extremity of the forest viewed from the southern end of Grand Avenue.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Grand Avenue leads north-west from here for over four miles (6.5 kms) in a straight line through the heart of the forest. It was laid out by Capability Brown in the late 1790s. If in a car travel along with care as there are speed bumps at intervals which aren't well marked. Grand Avenue remains a private road and from memory, it is closed one day a year to prevent its becoming a highway under the Highways Acts. It is shown on the maps as an off-road cycle route so folk on pushbikes can use it. This is the other end of Grand Avenue http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344365
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>This view from the Durley Road is opposite a pair of grand iron gates marking the southeastern arm of the avenue. In the direction photographed the private road leads to Capability Brown's hub of the Eight Walks and thence on to the A4. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savernake_Forest
©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.7km<br/>On 7th July 1945 an ammo dump on the land just to the right of the road caught fire and exploded causing the loss of life of an American serviceman and considerable property damage. This tree stump is about the only physical evidence to be seen that the explosion occurred. Information from 'Savernake at War' Roger Day 2007 http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/ (has sound at first). This and several other images can be seen in this gallery http://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/savernake_forest_and_the_second_world_war_6660
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>On 7th July 1945 an ammo dump on the land just to the right of the road caught fire and exploded causing the loss of life of an American serviceman and considerable property damage. Information from 'Savernake at War' Roger Day 2007 http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/ (has sound at first). This and several other images can be seen in this gallery http://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/savernake_forest_and_the_second_world_war_6660
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is a rare opportunity to see what the top of a dead tree looks like. All of it can be seen here [[2626692]]
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>The appearance of the tree suggests it has been struck by lightning. It might have just died though.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>The track skirts the southern edge of the forest back to the longest avenue in Britain http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1369958
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>An Edward VII reign postbox in the wall of the Old Vicarage.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>The rather invasive bracken is only just starting to die back. It stands about 1.8 metres high.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is a long shot down the one kilometre-long drive to the 1820 iteration of Tottenham House. Find out more here: http://www.savernakeestate.co.uk/tottenham.htm Listed Grade I http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=310790 Plans to turn the old pile into a luxury golf resort hotel have been in the system since the early years of this century but have yet to be realised. The original application was approved in July 2006 with the intention that the project would be completed by about 2009. An application to extend the 2006 permission was made in 2010 and has yet to be decided.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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