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    The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in south-west Wiltshire, England. They are between Salisbury...
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    Fovant is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, lying about 9 miles (14 km) west of Salisbury on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road...
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    goods traffic in 1967. In the First World War, it was the junction for the Fovant Military Railway. The station was about ½ mile from the centre of the village...
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    hill figures that include humans are the Osmington White Horse and the Fovant regimental badges. The Long Man is also one of two hill figures in East...
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    trace of the figure's existence when overgrown, as is the case of the lost Fovant Badges in Wiltshire.[citation needed] The trenching method, which is by...
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    inexorable Mandos. On 16 July 1919, Tolkien was taken off active service, at Fovant, on Salisbury Plain, with a temporary disability pension. On 3 November...
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  • August 1907 Alverstoke, Hampshire Died 7 July 1977(1977-07-07) (aged 69) Fovant, Wiltshire Relations Admiral David Luce (brother) Children Richard Luce...
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    Examples of these are the Litlington White Horse, Devizes White Horse, Fovant Badges, Cherhill White Horse, and the Marlborough White Horse. In 2008–2009...
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    Salisbury 12 July (day 55): Salisbury to Weymouth Wilton Barford St Martin Fovant Ludwell Shaftesbury Fontmell Magna Iwerne Minster Stourpaine Blandford Forum...
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  • Fonthill Gifford Ford (North Wiltshire) Ford (Laverstock and Ford) Fosbury Fovant Foxham Foxley Froxfield Fugglestone St Peter Fyfield Fyfield (Pewsey) Gasper...
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    Downton, Durrington, Ebble, Fisherton and Bemerton Village, Fonthill, Fovant, Harnham, Idmiston, Laverstock, Milford, Nadder, Redlynch, St Edmund, St...
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    Westbury White Horse Woolbury White Horse Bulford Kiwi Cerne Abbas Giant Fovant Badges Lamb Down Military Badge Long Man of Wilmington Solsbury Hill turf...
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    begun in August, and in September the division. moved to Hurdcott Camp at Fovant where the brigade received SMLE service rifles and carried out final intensive...
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    Bottom-up view The Giant's phallus Renovation in 2008 Long Man of Wilmington Fovant Badges Marree Man Osmington White Horse Litlington White Horse Rodney Castleden...
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    from Hampshire in the south runs down Knowle Hill and another route from Fovant and Tisbury in the north runs down Compton Down via Fifield Bavant and all...
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    of Salisbury wards of Donhead, Fonthill and Nadder, Knoyle, Tisbury and Fovant, and Western and Mere. 2024-present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review...
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    1915 at a brewery at Orpington. In January 1916 the battalion moved to Fovant, where there was a large purpose-built camp on the edge of the Salisbury...
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    south-west of the village on a lane towards Fovant. The station closed in 1966. A branch called the Fovant Military Railway, 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) in length...
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    Division was relieved in Ireland and returned to the UK, concentrating at the Fovant training area on the edge of Salisbury Plain preparatory to embarking for...
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    'Hull Commercials') on 11 November 1915. The battalion had just arrived at Fovant on Salisbury Plain to undergo intensive battle training with 31st Division...
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    Fisherton Tunnel 83½ Salisbury Wilton South Barford St Martin Viaduct Dinton Fovant Military Railway Tisbury Loop 96¼ Tisbury Semley 105¼ Gillingham Gillingham...
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    Castle. Other features include the Larmer Tree Gardens at Tollard Royal; and Fovant, where soldiers training during the First World War cut regimental badges...
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  • Fovant, and then London, they moved to Far Oakridge in 1919, where together they ran a puppet theatre. The interest in puppets originated in Fovant,...
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    Staveley-in-Kendal (We4) Wiltshire Ashton Keynes (W1) Avebury (W3) Burbage (W4) Fovant (W8) Netheravon (W6) Steeple Ashton (W5) Sutton Benger (W2) Sutton Veny...
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    does not depict a badge. Roughly 20 miles from the Bulford Kiwi are the Fovant Badges, a group of eight military badges cut mostly by camps in World War...
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  • Finchley War Memorial Flanders Fields Memorial Garden Fordham War Memorial Fovant Badges Friern Barnet Parishioners War Memorial Fulham War Memorial Gerrards...
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  • Member of Parliament Robert Osegood alias Fovent, who died in 1377, of Fovant, Wiltshire and Shaftesbury and Margery, a daughter of MP, Thomas Platel...
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    Jackson on 6 November 1914 for use on the Larkhill Military Railway. Moved to Fovant Military Railway on Salisbury Plain. After end of World War I, sold to Associated...
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    relieved in Ireland and returned to the United Kingdom, concentrating at the Fovant training area on the edge of Salisbury Plain preparatory to embarking for...
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    Halt Porton Semley Wilton South Other lines Downton Edington and Bratton Fovant Lavington Malmesbury Milford Railway Stations in Wiltshire Disused Railway...
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