The Shoe
The Shoe is a small hamlet in the parish of North Wraxall, in the north-west of Wiltshire in England. It lies at the junction of the Fosse Way (the old Roman road from Exeter to Lincoln) and the A420 (running from Bristol to Oxford). The settlement is named after the former inn, The Horse-shoe. Ordnance Survey maps show a smithy. Earlier maps show the smithy on the south side of the A420 road, while later maps show one on the north side of the road. The Shoe is about 7 miles (11 km) west of Chippenham and the same distance northeast of Bath.
A spring rises in the village, forming a tributary of the Bybrook River. To the south of the village, marking the boundary with Colerne, is Doncombe Brook, with Bury Camp – an Iron Age hillfort – rising above the Doncombe valley.
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