Game: Name that road!

[straas]

Looks like bath stone, first guess would be somewhere like badminton

 

[lazybloke]

Looks like bath stone, first guess would be somewhere like badminton

No, but the abandoned mines at Box (from which much Bath stone came from) are always worthy of a digression. Amazing to see, but not particularly safe as the wooden shoring is rotten, and the passages are a bewildering maze that twist & turn in 3 dimensions.
Lots of fascinating things to see and occasional wow moments like this 'cathedral' cavern (not my pic).
Best explored in a caving club group.

 

[lazybloke]

You're much quieter than I expected, so I'll go straight to the full view:

 

[MontyVeda]

the stone looks like it could be Cotswaldsy... and it that a gatehouse hiding behind the bushes?

 

[lazybloke]

Right area

 

[robjh]

Good instincts! It’s the road from Faringdon to Highworth; my kids go to the horse riding centre the other side of Coleshill - we all drive there together with a bike on the roof and then I ride home whilst my wife stays and watches them. My road route comes past this spot, which is Badbury Hill and a NT location; there’s a bit of a climb to get there but nothing massive. I’ll sometimes alternatively take a MTB route home along the Ridgeway (past the site of another recent picture in this thread).

I now know exactly where that carpark is, and remember the hill beyond it, but I don't associate it with the wide open view to the left. I spent four months once working at Honda in Swindon and staying at Uffington near the White Horse, and this was one of my favourite rides to work. The work was, well, eye-opening, but the riding in the area was just great.

 

[ColinJ]

I have found quite a few Cotswold churches that look like that one, but haven't found the right one yet.

 

[straas]

It looks like nearly every village I go through to visit my sites in the south west - Kemble, Pill, bradford on Avon etc.

 

[lazybloke]

It looks like nearly every village I go through to visit my sites in the south west - Kemble, Pill, bradford on Avon etc.

Go north!

 

[straas]

Go north!

I wish I could! That's where I live.

 

[MontyVeda]

I have found quite a few Cotswold churches that look like that one, but haven't found the right one yet.

same here.

The windows on the tower look square rather than arched, and the only ones i've found like that don't have the pinnacles.

The building behind the bush is curious too... looks like it could be a gatehouse to something?

 

[lazybloke]

The building looks unusual from the previous angle.
Here's another angle:

 

[swansonj]

Wouldn't it be so nice if Ordnance Survey, who mark churches with towers, had Streetview, or if Google, who have Streetview, marked churches with towers...

 

[MontyVeda]

That building still looks unusual.

The road is headed south east? ...and at a guess, into the village/town??

 

[lazybloke]

That building still looks unusual.

The road is headed south east? ...and at a guess, into the village/town??

Direction is about right, I'd say the camera is looking ESE, and is just entering a very small village.

The village was recorded in the Domesday book. Elements of the church pre-date the Norman conquest.