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Dist:0.4km<br/>The church was designed by C E Ponting in 1877-78, with the tower added in 1883. It is built of flint with squared sarsen banding.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The memorial is to be found in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael and All Angels.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The bench mark has had paint put on it to show it. For a wider view [[1880758]] and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34506 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Hidden behind the stone on the corner of the cottage is a bench mark. It has had a bit of paint put on it to make it show up.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The sarsens are the remains of the sandstone layer that once covered the area. There are many in Piggle Dean, a small dry valley, the lower part of which is National Trust property.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>A K6 type telephone box near the village bus shelter. In 1935, the Post Office commissioned a new kiosk from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to celebrate the Jubilee of King George V. The K6 Jubilee Kiosk, as it is known, was similar to the K2 box, being made of cast iron and painted red but was 25% lighter in weight. By the end of the 1930s there were 20,000 K6 telephone boxes in use all over the UK.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The river flows gently through the meadow. Looking downstream.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>At the top of the dean, the lower part of which is owned by the National Trust.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The footpath between Pickledean Barn and New Shed, which can be seen.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>A George V reign postbox set into the brick wall of a house on the edge of the village.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Kune Kune pigs arrived in Britain in 1992 from New Zealand. Their name is pronounced Cooney Cooney, and means fat and round in Maori.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>On the south side of the A4, near West Overton.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>Surrounded on all sides by 20th century housing.
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