Devizes 1st Scouts Hall
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Devizes 1st Scouts Hall
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 10 May 2024
The scouts were formed following the Boer War and some of its combatants were key members. Lord Baden-Powell fought alongside Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Steele at the siege of Mafeking and it was the latter who took the formative scouting movement to Hillworth House, which was owned at the time by Captain R. S. Gundry - from a well-known Wiltshire family. Gundry donated a plot of land in Southbroom Road to build a Scout Hall, which was formally opened by Lord Methuen on 14th July 1919.
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Image Location
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51.348889
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-1.990905