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Chapel Lane    Summer 2021     Issue 32 

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Most Box residents have driven along Chapel Lane without wondering why this busy route is called a Lane, not Road or Street. Find out more in our fascinating history of this overlooked area, including the reconstruction of the corner of Chapel Lane, seen in the amazing photograph above. 
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People Index

Box Lodge of Operative Stonemasons
Story of Box Union of Stonemasons

Occupants of Box Vicarage
Discovering who lived in the vicarage
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Nurse Elizabeth Holley
Box's only Albert Medal winner

Obadiah Smith, Box soldier
Napoleonic war pensioner from Box who served under Wellington (pictured)

​Mrs Bulkowski
Box School Teacher Remembered
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​​Places Index ​

Cheney Court
The mystery of this wonderful building

150th Anniversary of Box Tunnel Remembered
A train, community play and fireworks in 1991

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The Retreat
How would you like to live in a railway carriage (right)
​like lawyer William Sparrow? 

Leafy Lane Playing Fields
History of development of Rudloe project


New Listing of Forgotten Brunel Masterpiece
Update on Underbridge at Lovar Walk
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Early Medieval Series:    ​West Saxon Period AD 600-800
Why Box is in Wiltshire
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What split us from Bath?
Anglo-Saxon Evidence
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Discoveries in Box area
Saxon Christianisation
When did Box Convert?
Anglo-Saxon Society
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​Life in our area
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​Wartime Goodbyes
Phil Lambert's life in World War II - pictured
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Speed Through Middlehill Tunnel
How Much Quicker is it Now?

​Oatley Family in Box and Corsham
Story of family and their part in developing  Corsham and Box

Have an Extra Go
Detailed report of radio star coming to Box
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