Wylye to Codford

Under A303 and the railway continues it course on to Stockton

• Stockton
Stockton is typical of the flint brick and stone villages that can be found close to the railway as it runs through the Wylye valley. The village begins with Glebe Farm in the east and the imposing Stockton Park in the west. Built in the Elizabethan period Stockton House was home to John Topp whose Alms Houses still survive in the village today. Evidence of a Romano-British settlement, Grims Ditch and the Roman road from the Mendips to Old Sarum Can all be found in Stockton Wood south-west of the village.

Codford's famous hill figure soon appear on the right above Foxhill Bottom. Then the train travels on to towards Sherrington and Boyton, crossing Wylye at Sherrington.

• Codford
Codford combines the parishes of St Peter and St Mary - a unification that took place in 1928. The village is best remembered for its role in World War One when several large army camps were constructed. Immediately following the end of hostilities many soldiers died as a result of an epidemic of influenza. Most were from New Zealand and their graves can be found in an Anzac cemetery to the east of the village.

• Codford Hill Figure

In 1916 a group of soldiers based at Fovant continued the tradition of carving regimental badges in the chalk of Wiltshire's hillsides. Members of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces chose a site close to Codford and carved the image of a rising sun - the emblem used by Anzac troops.

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