The Old Road to Malmesbury
The gate to the old road
Stand at the gate with your back to the road. If you look back down towards Sutton Benger you can see where the line of the road used to be from the bridge to here; it then carried on up the hill along the lane on the other side of the gate, to Harding's Farm. This section of the 'old road to Malmesbury', from here to the M4, is no longer a Public Right of Way. There was a junction in the road about 100 yards further on where the road turned to the right into Seagry Hill, from where it continued to Somerford.
The road was diverted when the M4 was built. The parish did not ask for the original lane to Harding's Farm to be kept as a footpath / bridleway, but we will return to it on the far side of the motorway.
