Photo of Sandy Lane, a village in Wiltshire, south west England. — © Basher Eyre / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Sandy Lane

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A thatched timber church is the surprise at Sandy Lane, built in 1896 as a mission chapel for this Bowood estate hamlet and reckoned one of very few thatched wooden churches in England. The rest is a short row of chocolate-box thatched cottages between Chippenham and Devizes, with the old Bath road running through.

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