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Dist:0.2km<br/>Incombe Farm occupies the area here at the top of the Twyford Brook valley. This is looking from the main road, at the driveway to a property called Incombe Head. Six inches of snow fell on the area the previous day.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>These four deer (plus a fifth) wandered across this field, just as I got out of the car to photograph the snowy scene. They have actually just left the parish of Melbury Abbas and entered Compton Abbas territory, since the valley floor is the parish boundary.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Three of five deer who were wandering around this field as I got out of the car to photograph the snowy valley scene.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>A view looking to the south across a field of freshly mown grassland.
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.5km<br/>These rows of freshly sprouted maize are on the west side of Melbury Hill south of Shaftesbury where the A350 briefly enters the west side of the grid square.
©Nigel Mykura
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©Mike Searle
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©Mike Searle
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©Mike Searle
Dist:0.8km<br/>View east across the square which is typical of the rolling farmland of rural north Dorset
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.8km<br/>East Compton can be seen in the foreground
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.8km<br/>Viewed from the point where the bridleway crosses the beginning of the ascent of Melbury Hill.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.8km<br/>Overlooking Blackmore Vale.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.9km<br/>The triangulation pillar, now redundant, has been turned into a toposcope.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.9km<br/>To the right is the locator pillar of Melbury Beacon.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.9km<br/>A close-up of the finial atop the well hidden [[2134028]], which gives the location as Cornhill and the grid reference - just visible - 866204.
©Chris Downer

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