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Lowden, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 2BG

The milestone is beside the A4. For a wider view Image and a view of the bench mark on the west side Image Milestones did not come into general use until the Turnpike Act of 1766 made them compulsory on turnpike roads, these roads were built by private enterprise under licence from the Government and maintained by tolls on those who used them. Before this Act milestones were put up occasionally, often as charitable acts and commemorations. Many Turnpike Act stones still exist. They are usually 2-3 ft high, with the initial letter or abbreviation of the nearest market town show on two faces, and the distance from it.

The bench mark is on the west side of the milestone that is beside the A4. For a view of the milestone Image and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34522 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height.

Metal plate attached to stone post by the A4, in parish of CHIPPENHAM WITHOUT (NORTH WILTSHIRE District), Rowden Hill; 20m Northeast of junction with Lowden, back of wide cut grass verge between path and garden fence, set back from trees, on North side of road. Bath incised iron plate, erected by the Chippenham turnpike trust in the 19th century. An earlier photograph can be found here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6060932. Inscription reads:- TO BATH 12 Carved benchmark on left mid side. Milestone Society National ID: WI_LB_BACN12

Metal plate attached to stone post by the A4, in parish of CHIPPENHAM WITHOUT (NORTH WILTSHIRE District), Rowden Hill; 20m Northeast of junction with Lowden, back of wide cut grass verge between path and garden fence, set back from trees, on North side of road. Bath incised iron plate, erected by the Chippenham turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- TO BATH 12 Carved benchmark on left mid side. Milestone Society National ID: WI_LB_BACN12.

The very wide verge with several trees is beside the A4, Bath Road. Set back from the road is a milestone.

At the southern end of Lowden. The waste bin makes a bright splash on a dull day.

On Saturday, April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m., while on tour in the United Kingdom, 21-year-old Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi on the A4 in Chippenham. The taxi crashed into a lamp post on Rowden Hill, where this plaque now commemorates the event. Songwriter Sharon Sheeley and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash.

This is near the spot where he died in a car crash. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g190801-d16696424-Reviews-Eddie_Cochran_Memorial-Chippenham_Wiltshire_England.html