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©Martyn Pattison
©Martyn Pattison
This is Ordnance Survey flush bracket number 10061 http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm2586 dating from the days before the second world war when the entire mainland of Britain was comprehensively surveyed and mapped. Even though these flush brackets are now largely if not completely redundant, their legacy lives on in the OSGB36 map reference system still in use to this day. The building to which it is attached can be seen here [[2056573]]
©Brian Robert Marshall
A Land Rover Discovery waits patiently outside a doctors' surgery in the Ellendune Centre, where shops, a community centre and a library can also be found.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>The church hall is also the Church of St John the Baptist and St Helen. Services are held on Sundays and for the working week it also serves as a day nursery. The hall is available for hire. More information here http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4970289823_f257e192f0_o.jpg The building has an Ordnance Survey flush bracket attached low down on the north-west corner of the front main wall [[2056561]]
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>The shopping centre has a car park in front of it.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>The public house is named after a racehorse of the same name that raced as a hurdler in the 1920s. As far as I can determine this is the only pub in the UK with this name.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>Tucked away in front of the library on Wharf Road, the recently restored Wrougton War Memorial looked very impressive even in the driving rain.
©Dave Skinner
Dist:0.2km<br/>An historic 1956 Land Rover lurks behind the garden wall of a substantial property fronting on what is still the main road from Swindon to Devizes and beyond. Official records suggest it hasn't turned a wheel in over three years. The number plate is probably worth as much as the Landie.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>This small stream is not named on the maps. It may well have a local name; if so I don't know it. It flows generally north to join the River Ray, which is a tributary of the Thames. The Pitchens is to the right.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Yet another pub closure is recorded here. The pub is owned by Arkell's brewery [[753002]]. The erstwhile landlords took over the pub as recently as December 2009. No explanation has been given for their departure and the future of the pub is uncertain. According to a director: “It is with regret that we have had to close the Three Tuns at Wroughton following the departure of the landlords. “As we do not have a landlord in a position to take over the pub we have boarded it up and have yet to make a firm decision about its future. It is possible that it will not be open again in the short term.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk) The brewery bought the pub as far back as 1889 when it was already a substantial property, with "brewhouse, stables, coach house, shed, piggeries, other out-buildings, yard, garden, half an acre of orchards and meadow land, known as Home Close". Local legend has it that a local, one Dickie Tarrant, would take his horse into the pub with him. The restricted size inside meant the horse had to leave the bar backwards. (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk who probably got it from the Arkells website) Commenting on the closure a local parish councillor has been quoted as saying: “I don’t think people will be too sad about it. We’ve got plenty of pubs in the village.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk)
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The private road is to the left near the sign in this image [[612616]]. The Pitchens is shown as a no through road but there is a footpath through.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Rights of Way Act 1932 permitted an owner of land to post a sign such as the one pictured making it clear that a path over the land is not a right of way. That's how I read it anyway. http://www.glass-uk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=455
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is another view of the former pub, now under conversion into a house. The pub holds personal memories for me and at least one other Geographer. The pub had an extensive beer garden and was a pleasant place to visit with parents in the days when children weren't allowed into pubs.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>The property was public house for many years until the early 1990s or thereabouts. After that it was used for some other commercial use. It is now being converted into a house and the builders are still working on it.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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