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Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-01-27 00:25:58 - Graham Ellis

A crisp winter's day ... and a shopping trip to Swindon. A late afternoon drive back over the Marlborough Downs.



In Devizes, the pond by the green - the Crammer - shimmered as the light went down, with trees silhouetted against the sky.



Caen Hill Locks on the canal run through the town, and as we left after dropping Dad off, we could just make out the waters running under Prison Bridge with its sawtooth shape railings which - I'm sure - have something of a history.



And in the last gasp of sunlight, away in the distance the stack of the Westbury Cement works belched its characteristic steam out over the countryside



I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Wiltshire.