Camp Lane
Introduction
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Camp Lane
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 9 Mar 2017
This cul-de-sac reaches farmland only before stopping. The building nearest the camera was formerly an infants' school in the nineteenth century. It dates from 1825 and served for a few decades until 1897, when the children went to Marshfield for education. Camp Lane is thought to be an ancient trackway that ran between the local strongholds around Dyrham. A camp road or ridgeway ran between the 'Fosse' and the 'Portway' from Castle Combe to Dyrham connecting the two roads and the Ebdown and Dyrham Camps. It is thought that Ceawlin the ruler of Wessex used this route when he attacked the Dyrham Camp and subsequently defeated the English at Dyrham in AD 577.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.47858
Longitude
-2.344674