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Western Way, SALISBURY, SP2 9DP

A pair of semis and a building of four flats on Pullman Drive, seen from a passing train on the railway line between Salisbury and Tisbury.

The milepost, now located in a private garden in Quidhampton, was originally located on Wilton Road, near the acute-angled junction with Skew Road, on the south side of the road. Parish of Quidhampton (Salisbury District). Cast iron post, C&M Classical iron casting, erected by the Fisherton, Wilton, Heytesbury, Willoughby Hedge & Redhone turnpike trust in the 19th century. Grid reference refers to the approximate original location of the milepost. Inscription reads:- SALISBURY 2 WARMINSTER 19 Milestone Society National ID: WI_SAWM022

This post office is contained within a general store on Pembroke Road. The George V-reign postbox is emptied for the last time at 5:15pm on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays.

Looking up Pembroke Road from its junction with Queen Alexandra Road (Image).

The dovecote was built in 1863 as part of a model farm designed by Samuel Clarke for the Dowager Countess of Pembroke. The circular dovecote with conical slate roof and lantern has two ranges of pigeon holes below the eaves and various other openings. Dovecots or doocots are buildings erected for housing doves and pigeons. Some of the round ones are so impressive that they can be mistaken for the base of a windmill or a small defensive tower. Many were erected during the improvement of estates in the 17th and 18th centuries, and achieved sufficient architectural and historical merit to be safeguarded as listed or scheduled buildings. Some dovecots are attached to farmsteads or let into the gable end of a barn or granary – much to the annoyance to the tenant farmers no doubt as doves and pigeons damage crops. Dovecots and pigeon lofts were not just ornamental; the birds provided a source of fresh meat in winter. The complex suffered from fire damaged twice and has now been re-developed with many of the old walls used.