IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bytham Road, MARLBOROUGH, SN8 1TD

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.

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

Old Chase Road provides the viewpoint. The crop in the field is maize. The farm building in the distance is unnamed on the maps.

Old Chase Road is still highway at this point although it is unsurfaced. It becomes a byway about 200 metres further on.

Bypassing Ogbourne St George, which is to the left.

Bramley Cottage, High Street, was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The left bay is timber framed, the right bay, in brick, is probably a rebuild. All under a thatch roof. There is a lean-to extension on the left, over which the thatch has been swept down. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365584 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.