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©Colin Bates
Dist:0.6km<br/>Hidden away by trees, the stones are much smaller than their world-famous counterparts to be found at Avebury a few kilometres to the south. How they came to be here remains a mystery to me at least.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>The blue bus stop is about 11 metres from the northern gridline of the square.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking south, downstream. The purity of the chalk stream is shown by the bright green of the aquatic flora.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.7km<br/>The river above Avebury bifurcates into two headwaters; this being the northern tributary, looking north, upstream.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.8km<br/>When this was taken the river bed was completely dry.
©Guy Wareham
Dist:0.8km<br/>A mix of building styles.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.8km<br/>The straw will be baled soon. There is a lot of farming machinery in action in the area today. This view is in the direction of Winterbourne Monkton.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>Una's life was quite an achievement. It spanned three centuries and two millennia.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>Worthy of note in this image are the two massive tree trunks that help support the bells.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>The window isn't very old, late Victorian, in contrast to the church itself, parts of which are 12th century. The window commemorates a curate who died at the age of 28 in 1877.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>Facing east. The church dates from 1133 at this location.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>There are seven names from the Great War, one from the Second. The poppy wreath remains from Remembrance Day, earlier this month.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>Facing east. The church as it seen today dates from 1833 and has been added to over the centuries.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>One of the deceased ladies is a 'relict', a rather quaint if old-fashioned term for a widow.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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