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Picket and Clanger Wood

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Picket and Clanger Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, covering 0.67 km². It is one of 119 SSSIs in the county. It is among the largest in the county.

The nearest railway station is Westbury (Wilts), about 2.1 km to the south-west. For more of the same, Bratton Downs and Salisbury Plain are close by.

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Photo of Westbury White Horse, a hill figure near Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Westbury White Horse

Hill figure near Steeple Ashton

The oldest and best known of the Wiltshire horses, cut into the down below Bratton's Iron Age ramparts and remodelled in 1778; it shows for miles across the vale.

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Photo of the Kennet & Avon Canal, an 87-mile canal running from Reading to Bristol, England.Highlight

Kennet & Avon Canal

Canal

The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

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Photo along the Macmillan Way, a 290-mile long-distance path running from Boston to Abbotsbury, England.Highlight

Macmillan Way

Long-distance path

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Photo of the Cotswolds, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cotswolds

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Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

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Photo of Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn, a landmark near Bradford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn

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Great 14th-century barn of Shaftesbury Abbey's farm at Barton, 51 metres long, its stone-slate roof carried on massive timber crucks.

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Photo of Bradford-on-Avon, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Bradford-on-Avon

Village

Riverside cloth town on the edge of the Cotswolds, its steep lanes of weavers' cottages rising above a packhorse bridge and Saxon church.

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