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Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking across the valley from the Aldbourne to Ogbourne St George road.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Little remains of this tumulus, probably a Bronze Age round barrow, and though what remains is protected from ploughing, it is still being eroded by vehicle tracks.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.5km<br/>A feature of oilseed rape flowers is a fairly pungent sulphurous smell. This is because OSR is a member of the brassica family. It has the effect of attracting numerous flies which are visible in the full-size version of the photograph. These presumably assist in the pollination process.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>The crop is just about in full flower. From now on the flowers will start to drop and the seedpods will develop to release their black gold in July or August.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>These long-horned cattle were an unexpected sight in a field near Woodsend. Behind them in the right of the picture is the woodland of the Dean, while further away the tower of Aldbourne Church can just be glimpsed, and on the horizon is the radio mast next to the M4 service station at Membury.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.6km<br/>These houses are almost all there is to Woodsend. A post box can be seen in the foreground.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.6km<br/>A private track runs down into the valley on the other side of the hedge in the foreground.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.6km<br/>Lodge Lower Barn can just be seen below.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>The earthworks of this field system are clearly defined by the winter afternoon sunlight.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.8km<br/>This memorial was placed at the depopulated village of Snap 4km west of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by pupils of Toothill School, Swindon on 5th August 1991. The village itself ceased to exist about 100 years ago, reportedly to make way for sheep.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.8km<br/>Snap was an ancient settlement 4 km west of Aldbourne, Wiltshire that was depopulated in the early years of the 20th century, reportedly to make way for sheep. Little trace of any buildings remains and the village is now woodland as can be seen in the background. The stone in the bottom right was placed there by pupils from a school in Swindon in 1991. For a closer view of the stone please see this one http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/240576
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.8km<br/>The gateposts at the entrance to Snap Farm are surmounted by guardian lions; CCTV also guards the farm, around which byways have been recently been diverted.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.8km<br/>From the footpath, which has recently been diverted to make use of a track rather than crossing the field.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.9km<br/>The big lad deserves another outing. Is he still with us after over three years at stud? I'd like to think so. If he isn't don't cry for him. There are worse fates than working oneself to death in a career such as he will have had.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.9km<br/>Taken from a right of way, with a lot of zoom.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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