Christian Malford Halt served the village of Christian Malford, Wiltshire from 1926 to 1965. It was situated on the Great Western Main Line which runs from London to Bristol. The station is located half a mile south of Christian Malford where the railway passes over Station Road. The halt consisted of two timber platforms, each with a wooden shelter.
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Christian Malford is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England. The village lies about 4+1⁄2 miles northeast of the town of Chippenham. The Bristol Avon forms most of the northern and eastern boundaries of the parish. The hamlets of Thornend and Upper Town lie within the parish.
The name is a corruption of Christ mal Ford, Old English moel, mal being a mark: "Christ’s mal" is Christ's mark or sign, the cross. Thus the name signified "ford by a cross". Deeds from Glastonbury Abbey cartulary relate to Christmalford Manor: in AD 940 King Edmund granted Christmalford to St Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury. In 1086 the Abbey of Glastonbury remained tenant-in-chief of Cristemeleforee in the ancient Domesday hundred of Sterchelai. Christian Malford and the other parishes of Startley hundred were amalgamated with additional parishes to form the hundred of Malmesbury.
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Foxham is a village in Bremhill civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles northeast of Chippenham and a similar distance northwest of Calne.
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Sutton Benger is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, 5 miles northeast of the town of Chippenham. The parish includes the hamlet of Draycot Cerne.
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Sutton Lane Meadows is a 3.44 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1988.
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The Dauntsey Vale is a geographical feature in the north of the English county of Wiltshire.
It is characterised by a wide, flat, clay floodplain of the upper reaches of the Bristol Avon river, which divides the Cotswolds to the west from the chalk downland of east and south Wiltshire. It is triangular in shape with its north edge running from the town of Royal Wootton Bassett in the east to Malmesbury in the west. This prominent north ridge is the setting for the village of Brinkworth, which at five miles long, claims to be the longest village in England.
The western edge of the Vale is the edge of the Cotswolds, running from Malmesbury to Chippenham in the south. This edge is less pronounced than the classic escarpment which forms the western edge of the Cotswolds. It is characterised by a gradual drop in level, but more in the different building materials of the villages. For instance, Stanton St Quintin above the Vale has a distinct Cotswolds feel with the typical honey-coloured building stone and roof slates, while villages just a few miles away to the east like Christian Malford and Sutton Benger have typically thatched homes.
The eastern edge of the Vale is more pronounced, with a steep and high hill forming a ridge running from Wootton Bassett in the north to close to Calne in the south. This ridge top provided the site for RAF Lyneham, the home until 2011 of the RAF's Hercules transport planes.
It takes its name from the village of Dauntsey in the centre of the Vale.
There is no trace of the halt today, although the access path on the up side is still there.
References
Wiltshire Railway Stations, 2004, Mike Oakley, ISBN 1-904349-33-1