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Old Frome Road, BATH, BA2 5RH

As straight as a Roman road for much of the time here. the old ditch is largely undetectable after centuries of walking and farming.

A rivet benchmark, as listed in the Benchmark Database: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm92083 , remains on a small stone wall on the Wansdyke path on Bath's southern downland. It is on a junction of paths and close to the Three Ways School. The latter is a modern (2007) school for special needs pupils. Before that there were a number of individual establishments, and the original school was founded in the early twentieth century as Three Ways Cottages; this was a part of the nearby Poor Law Workhouse and a Bath Corporation institution. See Image] for a wider view.

A footpath junction along the Wansdyke, close to Three Ways school. A post WWII benchmark lies on the stone wall - see Image

The enclosed footpath uses part of the Wansdyke.

Dating back to the 1890s and probably when the old lines of the city of Bath and the county of Somerset were here; they have moved on since. See Image] for a wider view.

Close to the old Wansdyke is a collection of boundaries - one stone here marks part of the feature. See Image

The Wansdyke runs straight along this line, although little of the original ditch and works are evident now. To the left is the large expanse of the Manor Farm estate, which includes farmland and modern tree plantations.

Parish Boundary Marker on the south side of the B3110 Midford Road, next to a bus shelter west of the junction with Southstoke Road. Partly hidden by a black waste bin since 2014. On the boundary of Southstoke parish (Bath And North East Somerset District) and Bath. L and W represents Lyncombe with Widcombe parish, absorbed into Bath parish in 1900. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5654908 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5654910. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: SO_WID03pb.

The Wansdyke runs through many miles of countryside in the south of England. Its construction ranges across the lengths but parts appear to be late or post Roman at the earliest, and the techniques used seem in a more Roman military style. This section is a noticeably linear ditch that runs along the southern extremes of the old Roman town of Bath. Further ahead, the dyke crosses the old Fosse Way.

Where South Stoke Road crosses the B3110 at Combe Down.