Fixing the Road

It is tempting to say that both Northbrook and Drove Lane are roads to nowhere. Northbrook starts at the Market Place and makes its way down and over the Northbrook stream and then up on the sandstone...

The Tar Gang

There is little to say about this image, except that it is a fantastic picture. It shows a road gang, with employees of Wiltshire County Council, at work on Parsonage Lane in Market Lavington in 1937....

More from the tollgate removal notebook

We recently looked at the book that explained the collecting of money that paid off the turnpike companies, in the Market Lavington area. We looked at the people who made donations from Market Lavingt...

Market Lavington Turnpike Subscribers

We looked, a couple of days ago, at the fact that money was raised to pay off the turnpike companies which freed the Market Lavington area of road tolls back in 1825. Today we look at those people of ...

Stop the tolls

At the start of the nineteenth century, you paid to use the roads. This was proving a problem for trade and just for people getting about. At various locations there were gates and they were manned by...

Easterton, Then and Now

Kandy Cottage Once upon a time a cottage known as Kandy Cottage stood at the bottom end of Easterton’s White Street. The cottage was demolished to straighten the road between Easterton and Market L...