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Heading South up to Tockenham Corner

Great little pub, very friendly staff, Very accommodating to cyclists (filling up water bottles, chatting about the route, etc...)

I believe this lane was once part of the main Bristol to Oxford road. The Saxon M4 🙂

"Malmesbury (/ˈmɑː(l)mzbəri/) is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the early medieval period it became the site of a monastery famed for its learning and one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939." Cit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmesbury

Lovely market town, lots of nice small shops and cafe's

A very nice road. I went from west to east averaging around 30km/h.

Amazingly the abbey has a written history covering 1300 years. Although today little of the monastic complex remains visible, extensive buried remains will survive and the monument is important as a site with early origins and which continued in use as a monastic house until its dissolution in 1535.

Malmesbury ancient hill top town. Cafes,Bike shop, interesting