Roads meet
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Roads meet
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 2 Sep 2019
The road through Fyfield from Lockeridge meets the A4 London to Bath road. The A4 runs on a chalk ridge just north of the flood plain of the River Kennet. The road was turnpiked in 1743. The village of Fyfield was once closer to the River Kennet. Frequent flooding and a number of cottage fires led in the 1860s to the abandonment of that site in favour of higher ground along the London to Bath road (now the A4). Many of the new cottages, the Fighting Cocks inn and a chapel were demolished when the A4 was widened in the 1930s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.416771
Longitude
-1.791297