Tilshead

Tilshead is a neighbouring village to my own home at Market Lavington. I had never taken even a brief walk around – until 5th November.

Of interest to me was Candown Lane. Candown Farm is (or rather was) in Market Lavington. It was obliterated after the military took over.

This was Candown Farm in about 1908.

And these are views on Candown Lane, Tilshead, in 2012.

A pipe maker in Tilshead?

It appeared deserted so I looked through the window. I think we are talking pipes for smokers rather than copper or drain pipes. A check on the web shows I’m right. You can check out http://www.upshallusa.com/making_an_upshall.htm to learn more.

When you leave the village on Candown Lane, you almost immediately get to a military area. Westdown Camp is nearby. The notice did not convey enough meaning to me. I wasn’t sure which roads I was allowed to use and which I wasn’t.

I don’t know where Greenlands Camp is!

I think this road was open, but they didn’t want me to investigate the tin huts on the left. On this occasion discretion seemed the better part of valour and I returned.

A thatched house under the wires at the Tilshead end of Candown Lane.

This is opposite the thatched cottage. I rather liked it and hoped to make something of the plaque under the upstairs window.

It could be something to do with a sundial.

Or is that just a pipe?

Now, on the main road where there are more cottages, this one almost has a Wylie Valley look to it.

This is Church House – perhaps deemed more than a cottage.

The path to the church. It passes by this angelic grave.

It commemorates Charles and Jane Giddings. Charles was a mason and so was his son. Perhaps they felt something a bit grand was called for.

Charles and Jane would have walked this aisle when they married in 1863.

No doubt they had their children baptised in the 12th century font.

And there’s the rather squat looking church.