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• CONTACT
• LISTED BUILDINGS
• AVON MEADOW
• AVONDYKE
• BARFORD LANE
• BARNABY CLOSE
• BATTEN ROAD
• THE BOROUGH
• BREAMORE ROAD
• CASTLE MEADOW
• CATHERINE CRESCENT
• CHAPEL LANE
• CHURCH HATCH
• CHURCH LANE
• CHURCH LEAT
• CLEARBURY VIEW
• CRANBURY CLOSE
• CROSSWAYS CLOSE
• DOCTORS ALLEY
• DOWNLANDS CLOSE
• DOWNTON ROAD
• EASTMAN CLOSE
• ELIZABETH CLOSE
• GRAVEL CLOSE
• GREEN LANE
• GREENACRES
• HAMILTON PARK
• THE HEADLANDS
• HIGH STREET
• THE HIGHWAY
• HYDE LANE
• JOANNA CLOSE
• LODE HILL
• LONG CLOSE
• LOWER ROAD
• MARIE AVENUE
• MESH POND
• MOOT CLOSE
• MOOT GARDENS
• MOOT LANE
• PARKERS CLOSE
• ROMAN MEADOW
• SALISBURY ROAD
• SAXON MEADOW
• SAXONHURST
• SCOTTS CLOSE
• THE SIDINGS
• SLAB LANE
• SNAIL CREEP
• SOUTH LANE
• SQUAREY CLOSE
• STANDLYNCH
• TWYNHAMS CLOSE
• WARRENS LANE
• WATERSIDE
• WEEKE CLOSE
• WEST WICK
• WHEELWRIGHT MEWS
• WICK LANE
• LINKS

No one I have ever spoken with is quite sure of the origins of the name of this path. However, One possible explanation is that it is taken from an old country dance of the same name, which originated in Cornwall.

Although I had always thought it was unique to Downton it also appears in other parts of the west country and Wales. A path of this name appears in Thomas Hardy’s ‘Under The Greenwood Tree’, named after that which passed near to his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton in Dorset.

SOUTH SIDE

Church Hall and Car Park (see entry under Barford Lane)

School House (see entry under Barford Lane)

Former Library

Church Rooms