Bidcombe Hill

Horningham : Grassy Field

Looking beyond the gate and into the field.

Horningsham : Field Entrance

Gates provide entry to the field.

Horningsham : Countryside Scenery

Looking across hillsides and green fields.

Horningsham : Road

Looking along country lane.

Gate near Baycliffe Farm

The gate, looking rather worse for wear, gives access to a large downland field.

Dry valley near Baycliffe Farm

A small dry valley where there are several large dead trees.

Dry valley near Horningsham

A small dry valley with several large dead trees.

Field Mound

Looking ESE across a field of corn adjacent to Kingston Lane, Maiden Bradley. The mound can be seen rising in the distance covered in corn. Besides this mound there are also two tumuli within the village boundary at Maiden Bradley. One is a Bronze Age bowl barrow in the corner of a cereal field next to Church Street back gardens. The other is fenced off and supports a clump of trees at the edge of a grazing field behind Bradley Cottage, Church Street.

John Potts

Brimble Hill Clump

Looking SE in Bradley Park, near Bradley House. Part of a permissory path system called Duke's Walk Link

which now appears to have been decommissioned. 'Brimble Hill was called Bremelhil brech in 1407 and the meaning seems to be Bramble Hill.' Link

The clump has rough grave marker stones Link

where Algernon Seymour, 15th Duke of Somerset and his wife Susan were buried. 'He died s.p. 22 October 1923 at Maiden Bradley and was buried there 25 October at Brimble Hill Clump aged 77. Will proved £684,923 gross, £289,960 net. His widow, who was a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, died 30 January 1936 and was buried 4 February at Brimble Hill.' Link

(For full story about the graves and locale description visit my Maiden Bradley village site on this Link

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John Potts

Maiden Bradley, T junction

Coming on the minor road from Horningsham; left, to Warminster and Shaftesbury; right, to Maiden Bradley and Frome.

Mike Faherty

Bridge near Maiden Bradley

The small bridge over a drain is on Kingston Lane. There is an Ordnance Survey bench mark on the parapet.

Bench Mark, Kingston Lane

The Ordnance Survey bench mark is on the east end of the north parapet to the bridge on Kingston Lane. For a view of the bridge ST8138 : Bridge near Maiden Bradley and for further information on the cut mark and others in the area Link

2012 : An old oak tree, nicely pruned

As well as improving safety for passers by on the road this treatment helps preserve the life of the tree. Already 300 to 400 years old, given the absence of lightning strikes, road widening, etc. it could last another 400 or 500 years. Brimsdown Hill is in the background, the road continues to Kingston Deverill.

2012 : A winterbourne or winterborne

A winterborne or winterbourne is a stream or river that is dry during the summer months, here is an excellent example, though this year it is dry in the middle of March.

2012 : Looking west from Kingston Lane

The road to Kingston Deverill. Across a large pasture to Little Knoll ST8037, Little Knoll Wood struggles to stay on top. Behind is Long Knoll, seen end on from the east and for once taking an inferior role.

2012 : Kingston Lane near Dairy Farm

Heading east to Kingston Deverill along the upper Wylye Valley. The clump of trees on the hilltop is the end if a long plantation seen end on at the top of King's Hill.