OT, but how on earth did it get the name Chocolate Poodle Bridge? I suppose, on reflection, it refers to a brown dog not, as my immediate reaction, one made of chocolate or completely useless! Google shows a nearby building that looks like it might have been a pub – perhaps Chocolate Poodle was the name of the pub?
Former pub name - correct. The Chocolate Poodle survived until (?) 10 to 15 years ago as a pub on the Devizes to Salisbury Road. The Black Dog about a mile to the north is far longer gone, but that name also survives in the form of "Black Dog Crossroads".
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Urban 75Chocolate Poodle
Bridge (ST995549). Line from Patney & Westbury Junction to Westbury opened 1900, Great Western Railway, with Lavington station, signal box and adjacent bridge. Station closed 1966. Signal box replaced by ground frame (released from Reading) 1977. Line, ground frame and bridge remain open. Bridge unofficially renamed Chocolate Poodle bridge circa 1970. Next to The Chocolate Poodle, High Street, Littleton Pannell, Devizes SN10 4EL. The pub is closed. The building, located adjacent to the entrance to Littleton Mobile Home Park, now contains rental flats, having previously been a guest house.
Also a history of the location at
https://marketlavingtonmuseum.wordpress.com/2013/06/page/2/