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Elizabeth Close, MARLBOROUGH, SN8 4BP

The street is Queensway and it heads south towards Savernake Forest. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

The footpath from London Road meets the delightfully named Five Stiles Road. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

London Road (A4) is much quieter now than when it was the main road west from London before the opening of the M4 motorway. Its route from Avonmouth to London passes through the cities of Bristol and Bath, and the towns of Chippenham, Calne, Marlborough, Hungerford, Newbury, Reading, Maidenhead and Slough. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

Glenthorne Cottage is alongside London Road (A4). Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town

Two large family homes at numbers 79 and 80 on the A4 London Road. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town

This Army Cadet Centre alongside London Road (A4) is the home of Marlborough 2293 squadron. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

The trackbed is now a cycle route. The line started life as part of the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover (SMAR) railway in the 19th century. The line was subsequently extended to as far north as Cheltenham and was re-named the Midland and South Western Railway. In the grouping of 1923 it was taken over by the Great Western Railway. The line closed to passenger traffic in September 1961. In this view the line is seen as it heads south and then west around the eastern edge of Marlborough. The next station stop was Marlborough Low Level.

This shop serves the housing estate. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

Marlborough Lodge is now a care home for the elderly. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

Alexander Keiller was a member of the Dundee Keiller family who made a fortune from the manufacture of marmalade. Alexander became well known in his own right for his involvement in the archaeology of Windmill Hill http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1010961 and Avebury http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/885313 in the 1920s and 1930s. As well as a passion for digging things up Keiller was deeply interested in the recreational possibilities offered by women and fast cars. On 9th July 1929 he was driving with a Miss Duncan in his Targa Florio Bugatti along this stretch of the A4 towards the viewpoint. On that occasion he got no further. In his own words: "... The actual site of the crash you must know well. It is the Railway Bridge on the hill climbing into Savernake out of Marlborough on the main Bath Road. We were climbing this hill at a reasonable speed, but not by any manner of means, I consider, an excessive one, viz. some 84 miles an hour, when my back axle broke and, the car turning round and rising into the air, we hurtled ourselves onto the angular portion of the Bridge. It is fortunate that we hit the angle, since otherwise, considering the speed at which we were travelling, we must have burst through the brickwork and fallen another forty feet onto the Railway line below. It is of course miraculous that either of us lived through the experience." (Source: 'A Zest for Life - the story of Alexander Keiller', Lynda J Murray, Morven Books 1999). The speed limit on this part of the road is now 30 mph and the railway is now a cycle path. It is noticeable that the wall over the bridge on the right, which is the one Keiller must have hit, is much lower than its opposite number. Possibly it was never rebuilt to its original height after the collision. The other, more prosaic likelihood is that the height of the wall was reduced to improve the sight-line from the road joining the A4.