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2009 : An unusual shade of green
Traffic on Hungerdown Lane heading north.
That white(?) van is even dirtier than mine.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 16 Feb 2009
0.06 miles
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Gas Governor off Hunger Down Lane
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 10 Dec 2014
0.07 miles
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House on Bristol Road, Chippenham
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 1 Jun 2019
0.09 miles
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Inverted benchmark
It's not terribly common but sometimes the arrows are above the datum line. However, it may be that the mark was originally positioned elsewhere at Folly Gate and the stonework reused after rebuilding. Historic references appear to indicate the mark at this location since the late 1880s. See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm41652 for the Benchmark Database, or
Image] for a look at the old turnpike tollhouse.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 29 Feb 2012
0.11 miles
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'Turnpike Cottage'
A former tollhouse on the A420 Bristol Road junction with the B4528 Hardenhuish Lane, an area once known as Folly Gate. It may have been built in around 1830 for the Chippenham Turnpike Trust. See
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Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 29 Feb 2012
0.11 miles
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Old Toll House by Bristol Road, Chippenham
Folly Toll House by the A420, in parish of Chippenham Without (North Wiltshire District), Turnpike Cottage, Bristol Road, SN14 6HH.
Grade II listed.
List Entry Number: 1022906 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022906
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: WI.CHI02
Image: © Alan Rosevear
Taken: 18 May 2005
0.11 miles
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Brand new Lidl store on Hungerdown Lane, Chippenham
It opened on February the 14th 2019. The map shows a school occupied the site previously.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 1 Jun 2019
0.12 miles
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Old Milestone by the A420, Bristol Road, Chippenham
Metal plate attached to stone post by the A420, in parish of CHIPPENHAM WITHOUT (NORTH WILTSHIRE District), Bristol Road, 105m North West of junction with Old Hardenhuish Lane and tollhouse, deep in hedge between path and wooden fence, on North side of road. Marshfield iron plate, erected by the Chippenham turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
8 MILES
TO
(MARSHFIELD)
(1 MILE)
(TO)
(CHIPPENHAM)
Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1022902
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022902
Milestone Society National ID: WI_CPMF01.
Image: © A Rosevear
Taken: 23 Sep 2003
0.16 miles
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The Hardenhuish Brook
Probably never much of a watercourse at the best of times, but with only a trickle of a flow in the dry summer of 2022.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 13 Jul 2022
0.17 miles
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Cycleway off Hardenhuish Lane
Part of a longer foot and cycle path that runs for 1.3km alongside the Hardenhuish Brook from the ring road to Bristol Road on the outskirts of the town centre.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 13 Jul 2022
0.17 miles