Hartmoor Road cuts through the greensand
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The photograph on this page of Hartmoor Road cuts through the greensand by James Harrison as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © James Harrison Taken: 4 Feb 2011
This road was originally the main route to Potterne, used by coaches, carts, horses and people on foot, it leads down towards Five Lanes and Whistley Road, via Furze Hill Lane. Devizes sits between the chalk downland of the Pewsey Vale and the low lying pasture land of the west Wiltshire, on a spur of upper greensand, part of which is seen here on the left of the photograph.