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Dist:0.3km<br/>The field of stubble, probably from a maize crop, is marked with tractor tracks. The road in the foreground is the A3102.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The A3102 is visible as it heads towards the market town of Wootton Bassett from Lyneham.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Unglamorous but essential. Black Dog Cottages are visible in the distance at the far left. The view is in the direction of Lyneham.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated next to the A3102, west of Wootton Bassett.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.5km<br/>The fence of one of the Black Dog Cottages has been carefully cut round the milestone so as not to obscure it. A closer view of the milestone can be seen here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1209244
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The distance to Oxford has been lost with the passage of time but it's about 33 miles east north east as the crow flies.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed in the direction of Wootton Bassett. The footpath marker see in this image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1209256 is just about visible here behind the bus stop.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>The road in the title is the one leading away from the viewpoint past a timber yard. The road crossing the image is the A3102. Vastern Wharf would have been associated with the now disused Wilts and Berks canal the route of which is nearby. The black specks in the image are rooks.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>The field beyond has been ploughed since Roger photographed it http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/354653
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>Running south east, near the boundary of Wootton Bassett golf club.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.6km<br/>
©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.7km<br/>For some time now the coffins containing soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan have been repatriated at RAF Lyneham a few kilometres west of here. They are then conveyed along this road and through Wootton Bassett where a tradition has developed of saluting the hearses carrying the coffins http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7920358.stm is typical coverage. Someone, not local, came up with the idea of naming the A3102 the 'Highway of Heroes' as has been done in Canada in the case of a highway in Ontario http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_401_(Ontario) Thankfully in my view there has been little support for the idea.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>The footpath follows the hedge line as it takes walkers towards the A3102
©Trish Steel
Dist:1.0km<br/>Even in August the footpath to Trow Lane is very muddy.
©Trish Steel
Dist:1.0km<br/>The footbridge and stile allow walkers access to the footpath to Trow Lane.
©Trish Steel

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