The image was taken on the 3rd March
2008 of Church Fields Lyneham, which is located down
Preston Lane opposite the Victoria Drive green. This
land, formerly known as Church Fields (119) in the 1905
Estate sale as a 'very fertile arable enclosure',
and prior to that Mortimers Church Field (305) in the 1821
Tithe Apportionments. The 21 acre field was
recently put up for sale and the was sold individually
with 88 plots to be made available for future housing
development. In late 2007 United Land Holdings Plc,
the company which purchased the land, went into liquidation
and doubt was raised on the future of the site. In
the spring of 2008 we noticed the land has been fenced
off and served for sheep to
graze.
The proposed land development and liquidation issues
has been discussed on the Lyneham Village Online Forum
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