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Dist:0.4km<br/>20 District of the ammunition depot also falls within this grid square, here is a photo taken in the early 1980's before any real damage has been done. The picture shows the conveyor heading to the shaft with a step over point, an office on the left and the barrier around the sewage ejector on the right. The trunking on the ceiling was for the air conditioning.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is taken in 19 District of the Farleigh Down Quarry Ammunition Depot. In the background you can see the original pillars left in to support the ceiling whilst in the foreground is an additional pillar put in during conversion. The pipes across the ceiling are to take water from the natural faults in the ceiling and drain it away through the floor.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.4km<br/>East of Bathford Hill, this apparently ideal setting on the edge of a field of wheat stubble covers a dark secret. see [[[318552]]]
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a photo looking towards the bottom of 19 District Slope Shaft, it can just be seen through the small door in the background where the conveyor used to run. This is an example of the amount of damage that has been caused to this historic site.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.5km<br/>This building hides a secret, at the far end there is a slope shaft that leads into 19 District, part of the Farleigh Down Quarry 2nd World War ammunition Depot. This depot is one of three Ammunition Depots within 4 miles and this one is just the largest of the three at 1,250,000 sq ft. of storage space and has districts 12-20 but no 13. Converted in the late 1930's from a Bathstone Quarry (underground) it was in use until the early 1960's when it was closed and left to decay. In the early 1980's it was opened as a museum which we ran for some years before it was bought from the owners by a property developer who closed the museum and then went bankrupt trying to sell it. During recent years it has been badly vandalised but part of it is now used for secure storage.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.6km<br/>The tower on Bathford Hill, once a prominent feature of the area is now almost overgrown by surrounding trees and difficult to see more than a few yards away. For site description and geology see http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002510.pdf and for history etc see http://www.follytowers.com/browns.html
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is a photo of a large passageway in the quarry workings on Farly Down. This area would have been quarried during the 1700's with Picks and Bars, to give you an idea of the size of the passage see if you can spot the person.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.6km<br/>Who was Sally?
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.8km<br/>View across the river Avon to the manor from a Bristol to Yeovil train just north east of Claverton.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.8km<br/>View north east across the river just north of Claverton from a Bristol to Yeovil train,
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.8km<br/>This photo shows part of 14 District in the ammunition depot at Farleigh. Converted from a Bath Stone Quarry during the mid to late 1930's this was to become until the early 1960's the largest underground ammunition storage facility totaling 80 acres with approx 1,250,000 sq ft of storage. After closure it fell into disrepair and was badly vandalized. In 1984 it was opened as a museum which we ran successfully until 1990 when a property developer purchased the site from the owners, went bankrupt and let the site fall into very bad condition until part of the workings was taken over and is now used for secure storage.
©Derek Hawkins
Dist:0.8km<br/>Warleigh Manor was built in 1814-5, and is an early example of the picturesque Tudor style. (Pevsner)
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km<br/>View across the valley from the Kennet and Avon Canal, with warleigh Manor glimpsed through the trees.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.8km<br/>Taken from open ground near Brown's Folly. The local TV transmitter near the left hand edge is at the top of Bathampton Down ST7765 which has Bathampton at its foot. The higher of the two roads in this area is the A36 to Beckington and Warminster. The lower is a local road going to Batheaston via a toll bridge over the River Avon. The hill to the right is the bottom of Lansdown hill, and the countryside between is north Somerset looking toward Farmborough and Pensford.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>About 1/4 of a mile north of Claverton Pump House, between the railway and the river Avon.
©Maurice Pullin

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