Seend Cleeve Quarry

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.

0.5 km NW · spans 5 counties

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

5.5 km E

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

7.3 km NE

National Trust-owned village of timbered and stone cottages with a medieval abbey and barn, kept free of modern clutter and much used on screen.

7.7 km N · Wiltshire

Where Fox Talbot made the world's oldest surviving photographic negative in 1835.

7.7 km N

The newest Wiltshire horse, cut on Roundway Hill for the millennium in 1999 — and the only one that faces right.

8.9 km E