This image taken in the early 1940s
on the A420 Swindon to Chipenham road at Dauntsey Hill.
The gradient of the hill must have made travel up the
hill
very slow
and difficult for the horse drawn carts.
In the background
is Dauntsey Lock as we know it today, with the brickworks
chimney stack and the public house of Peterborough
Arms.
