Frome Road
COUNTY BOUNDARY POST
MAIDEN BRADLEY FROME ROAD (B3092) ST 74 SE (east side) County Boundary post on road bridge at junction to Horningsham. Grade: II. Date first listed: 09-Sep-1987. County boundary post. C19. Cast iron plate with semi-circular top and WILTSHIRE / SOMERSET in raised lettering, vertically on front. - English Heritage
also see. . . Wikipedia: Boundary Marker
Maps
Ordnance Survey cut mark
Location Overview
The term bench mark, or benchmark, originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. - Wikipedia
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The location overview sequence heads from Maiden Bradley direction along the B3092 to Frome - starting at the Wiltshire county sign, past the boundary plate on the road bridge, past Horningsham T-junction, along to the Somerset sign. Parking at the entrance of Honey Pot Lane (track) is convenient but requires care as traffic can be quite busy and road bends restrict the view. Along Honey Pot Lane there are 3 more boundary markers shown on the map (see above). Another time these will be photographed for the record and added to this page. The bridge serves a drainage stream out of Ridge Copse (see photo) and probably joins up with a south flowing river which passes under the road at the Horningsham T-junction by means of a culvert (see map). The county road signs are about 100 feet or so on each side of the actual bridge boundary marker.
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Images of England (1999)