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Seend Cleeve Quarry

Seend Cleeve Quarry is a 7.5 acres Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Seend Cleeve, Wiltshire, England, notified in 1987. The site was an iron ore quarry and a steel mill, with the coal being delivered via the Kennet and Avon Canal. It also had its own on-site railway. None of these facilities had been preserved; the site is now pasture.

Located at 51.3471, -2.0976 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1987

Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting

Seend Ironstone Quarry And Road Cutting is a 3 acres Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Seend in Wiltshire, notified in 1965. Iron ore was quarried and smelted in Seend from the 1850s with three blast furnaces fifty feet high, and employed 300 men. The antiquarian John Aubrey wrote that he discovered iron ore as early as 1666 when it rained so much that it washed away the sand from the ore and the later bright sun reflected on it.

Located at 51.348, -2.0918 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1965, Road cuttings in the United Kingdom, Quarries in England, Transport in Wiltshire, Geology of Wiltshire

Bradford Lock

Bradford Lock is situated at Bradford on Avon on the Kennet and Avon Canal, England. It was in Bradford on Avon that the first sod was cut for the Kennet and Avon Canal in 1794 and had wharves above and below the lock. The lock has a rise/fall of 12 ft 6 inches (3.81 m). There are moorings above and below Bradford Lock. Next to the canal, a little way west of the lock, is a huge 14th century tithe barn.

Located at 51.3411, -2.08525 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Canals in Wiltshire

Seend Locks

Seend Locks are at Seend Cleeve, Wiltshire on the Kennet and Avon Canal, England. The five locks were built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury. They have a rise/fall of 38 ft 4ins (11.68m). During the 19th century there were several wharves at Seend primarily serving the Seend Iron Works but these have been disused for many years. The five locks at Seend Cleeve are numbered 17 to 21.

Located at 51.3507, -2.09759 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Canals in Wiltshire

RAF Keevil

Royal Air Force Station Keevil or more simply RAF Keevil is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles east of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. The airfield was built on a site previously ear-marked for the purpose in the mid-1930s. Consisting of 3 long concrete runways the airfield was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces Eighth and Ninth Air Forces.

Located at 51.3128, -2.11306 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Airfields of the IX Fighter Command in the United Kingdom, Military history of Wiltshire, Royal Air Force stations in Wiltshire

Baynton House

Baynton House is a Grade II listed 17th century country house situated at Coulston in Wiltshire. Originally owned by the Godolphin family, after the death in 1781 of William Godolphin, it was bought by William Evelyn, who enlarged what had been previously a house 'of very small pretensions'. William Long purchased it in 1796 after his own manor house of Baynton in Edington had been destroyed by fire. He also made alterations and renamed it Baynton House.

Located at 51.285, -2.068 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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17th-century architecture, Country houses in Wiltshire, Grade II listed buildings in Wiltshire

Marston, Wiltshire

Marston is a small village a few miles south west of Devizes in Wiltshire, England. It has a bus stop, a phonebox, a post box and a green. There's a chapel on one side of the green. Some very beautiful old buildings exist in the village, most of which are in a conservation area. The farms in the village are gradually disappearing and being replaced by equestrian activities. There's a small pond on the village green which has some interesting things living in it and occasionally by it.

Located at 51.31, -2.049 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Villages in Wiltshire

Bromham and Rowde Halt railway station

Bromham and Rowde Halt was the railway station serving Bromham and Rowde in Wiltshire, England. The station was a stop on the Devizes Branch Line, between Seend and Devizes After the completion of the Devizes line, the junction at Holt allowed the fastest route from London to the West Country. However the Devizes line lost to competition and returned to a branch line in 1900.

Located at 51.3572, -2.06586 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Wiltshire, Railway stations opened in 1957, Railway stations closed in 1966