Watkins Corner
Watkins Corner is a locality in Purton, Wiltshire, England. Watkins Corner is situated nearby to the village Purton Stoke, as well as near the hamlet Hayes Knoll.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hayes Knoll railway station and Blunsdon railway station.
Hayes Knoll railway station
Railway station
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hayes Knoll railway station is found on the heritage Swindon and Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire, England. Hayes Knoll station was built in 1999 as part of the work to reopen the section of the former Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade, the entire route having been closed in 1961.
Blunsdon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tim Walker, CC BY 2.0.
Blunsdon railway station is a station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage line in Wiltshire, England. The first station on the site was built in 1895 to serve the villages of Blunsdon St Andrew and Broad Blunsdon, north of Swindon, and closed in 1937.
RAF Blakehill Farm
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Blakehill Farm or more simply RAF Blakehill Farm is a former Royal Air Force station southwest of Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, operational between 1944 and 1952.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purton Stoke and Widham.
Purton Stoke
Village
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton Stoke is a small village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Purton. The village lies along a side road off the Purton to Cricklade road, approximately 1.5 miles north of Purton village.
Widham
Hamlet
Widham is a hamlet now encompassed within the village and parish of Purton, Wiltshire, England.
Purton
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton is a large village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles northwest of the centre of Swindon. The parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Purton Common, Restrop, The Fox and Widham.
Watkins Corner
- Type: Locality
- Location: Purton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.60976° or 51° 36′ 35″ northLongitude
-1.86315° or 1° 51′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C3WJ45P+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 12016335979OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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