The Hidden Wiltshire Podcast is now broadcast monthly and in this episode we pack up the recording gear and head for the hills to record the whole podcast outside. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out where we were, but suffice to say it wasn’t Grovely Wood!
We begin with our usual canter through what we’ve been up to in Wiltshire since the last podcast. Since we’re now recording once a month you’d think we had loads to talk about but since I was in France for the entire time and Glyn has been exploring the Avebury landscape in depth there hasn’t been a huge amount of activity. But we still managed to post a couple of new walks on the website.
The first walk was described in a blog by Elaine Perkins who has rapidly become a popular and valued contributor to Hidden Wiltshire. Elaine did a shorter walk in the Vale of Wardour talking in the pretty villages of Teffont Magna and Teffont Evias. You will find her blog, entitled A Short Walk in Wardour Vale on the Hidden Wiltshire website, linked below.
Meanwhile Glyn did a seven mile walk from Calne to the Bowood Estate on which he photographed hidden corners of the estate and the wider landscape, including a length of the Wilts & Berks Canal. You will also find hi blog on the Hidden Wiltshire website.
We also completed our first guided walk of the season for Wiltshire Museum, undertaking a shortened version of the walk around the Fonthill Estate that we posted on the Hidden Wiltshire website on 9 April 2021. If you’d like to join us on future walks you’ll find a list on Wiltshire Museum’s website. Wiltshire Museum has also just launched a new exhibition entitled Hardy’s Wessex and again you’ll find details on their website. The exhibition is spread across four museums – Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, The Salisbury Museum, Poole Museum and Dorset Museum in Dorchester. It runs from 28 May to 30 October 2022.
The main subject of this episode of the Hidden Wiltshire podcast was the walk that my regular regular walking buddy Stu and I did to Grovely Wood. We mentioned it in the last episode of the podcast but we have a longer discussion about it today. But not before we talk about the location for our recording, which prompted a wide ranging discussing about the landscape in this part of Wiltshire and of course its prehistoric past! Francis Pryor’s fantastic book Scenes From Prehistoric Life has been a great source of information for both us and we discuss the book in this episode of the podcast.