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Copse Drove, MARLBOROUGH, SN8 1RW

The A346 now avoids the centre of Ogbourne St George via a bypass. Originally the main road would have run closer to the camera, and turned to run under where the bridge now is. The bridge also marks where the railway line from Marlborough to Swindon formerly ran.

Field adjoining a property on the edge of Ogbourne St George.

Ogbourne St George's village inn offers fulfilling food, boisterous beers and relaxing rooms, it says on the wall. There is indeed a well, through the door and under a glass plate on the right. The single storey bit is a more recent extension and the well would have originally been outside in a yard. No info on the rooms, but my pint from Ramsbury Brewery was most pleasantly boisterous.

The last straight bit of an old Roman Road which loses its way briefly at Ogbourne St George before carrying on northwards as the busy A346 towards Swindon.

The former village stores and post office, High Street, is now a private dwelling. The business became tearooms circa 1990 and closed completely circa 1999. Constructed of red brick under a tile roof. Ogbourne St George is a village in the valley of the River Og in Wiltshire. It is sited just off the Roman Road from Cirencester to Winchester, about 7 miles south of Swindon and some 3¼ miles north of Marlborough. The name derives from the Saxon 'Oceburnan' or 'Oc[c]a's stream'. There is a great deal of evidence of prehistoric, Roman and medieval activity including Neolithic flint tools, Iron Age coins, Romano-British coins and pottery and medieval pottery fragments. Ogbourne St George today is a commuter village.

Opened in 1881 by the Swindon Marlborough and Andover Railway, later part of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, this station closed to passengers in 1961. View north west towards Chiseldon Camp and Swindon. The track-bed was roughly where the path now is and the camera position is near the southern end of the two platforms.