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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

The battle of Slag Lane: residents at odds over Wiltshire road’s ugly name

Slag Lane
Slag Lane’s name is a legacy of the Westbury ironworks. Photograph: Google Streetview

The Wiltshire town of Westbury is best known for the white horse carved into the chalky hillside above its Victorian streets and visible for miles around.

But a more down-to-earth feature of the former mill and ironworks town – a road called Slag Lane – has been causing a stir.

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