Stoke Common Lane near the Salts Hole, Purton Stoke
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Stoke Common Lane near the Salts Hole, Purton Stoke
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 27 Dec 2009
There is a wide grass verge alongside the lane (classified as a bridleway). In the days before tarmacadam was used to surface roads, lanes like this would become extremely muddy and rutted in wet weather and the line of the route would extend sideways where users might hope to find the way a little easier. Although no longer needed as a way past the mud, the verge remains. The property in the trees is The Spa and was, and perhaps still is, associated with the nearby Salts Hole http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1635389
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Image Location
Latitude
51.614078
Longitude
-1.880659