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Upper Common, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 5PG

Classified a minor road but performs a "B" road function. Heading now to the A429, makes a useful link for anyone wishing to travel east without using the M4.

Some notices are kept behind glass; the rest on the right are left to the elements.

Plenty of open space and fresh air. The seat appears to be a replacement for an earlier version and a rubbish bin beside it has been removed.

The bridleway links Langley Fitzurse with Kington St Michael. However, it is an old track that was once held an important role in ancient times. Some more remote parts of the landscape were sparsely populated but when an inhabitant died, it would have been only fitting and appropriate that the corpse was carried, often many miles, to a consecrated church. In some cases, a large stone would have been used on the way to rest the coffin. This modern route may have been known as a coffin road, a burial road or lych way. Perhaps coincidentally, very close along this path was a saw mill and the old Fitzurse Manor house - would the saw mill have produced coffins?

The road turns square at this point, but there are a couple of footpaths that branch off along the green trackways.

"Thank you for your sponges, your scones and flapjacks Thanks for helping us sell all the snacks. We can’t do it without you We say in all honesty Where would we be Without your cakes to go with our Teas? So we say ‘Thank you from the Scarecrows’ it all went brilliantly!" Liz Howe on behalf of the Scarecrow Committee The above was copied from http://www.kingtonlangley.org/Village%20Reference.htm an excellent village website.

This wooden seat was presented by the village to mark the Royal Wedding of 1981. It has lasted a little longer.

Just leaving Upper Common on the way to Kington St. Michael.

Middle Common has been chosen for some road traffic counters. Two rubber strips indicate a volume measuring set-up, three would be measure speeds.

A fine old 1GL boltmark can be found down the side of the old chapel, just as the building and wall meet. See https://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm25289 for the entry in the Benchmark Database and Image] for a wider view.