Bincknoll Castle and Broad Town White Horse
Bincknoll Castle is best viewed from the air where its location can be appreciated, and Glyn has posted some drone shots in his blog. The same can be said of Broad Town White Horse where this almost childlike depiction of a horse is hidden by long grass from ground level. Again Glyn’s drone shots in the blog show it in all its simple glory.
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Codford Down and Chitterne Brook
We’ve called this episode Codford Down and Chitterne Brook but it could equally have been called East Codford Down, Clay Pit Hill, Codford Circle or Oram’s Grave – all places that were visited on the way. Or maybe we could have called it “Bottoms” (listen to podcast to hear why)!
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The River Till
We then move on to the main subject – the River Till. This quintessential chalk winterbourne rises in Tilshead and flows all the way to Stapleford where it joins the Wylye. Many people quite understandably assume that Tilshead takes its name from the river. But this is not the case.
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Knapp Down and the Ebble Valley
The main subject this week was the walk that I did with my regular walking chum Stu at the end of August. In fact Stu was responsible for putting this route in the Ebble Valley together. But his long career in the army, where he was used to yomping long distances laden with huge loads, resulted in a slightly over-ambitious route of nearly 15 miles including a gruesome 4 miles along the old Salisbury – Shaftesbury turnpike.
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Pewsey Downs - The East End
Then on to the main subject of this episode. This sort of follows a walk I did in March 2019 on the Pewsey Downs to the east of the Pewsey Downs car park between Walkers Hill and Knap Hill.
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Castle Combe and a Hint of Ancient History
Episode 6 of our Hidden Wiltshire podcast is now live in which we explore the countryside around Castle Combe whilst giving the village itself a (reasonably) wide berth. It’s hardly hidden as the entire world know about it!
This area of Wiltshire is characterised by babbling brooks and deep combes, or bottoms as we like to call them here. The podcast follows a walk I did in July 2020.
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The Deverills North of the River Wylye
Episode 5 of our Hidden Wiltshire podcast is now live in which we continue our walk in the hills above the Deverills. We follow a walk that both Glyn Coy have done about which I wrote a blog in May 2020 for the Hidden Wiltshire website.
The walk takes up where the last episode finished in Brixton Deverill before climbing the hills to the north of the River Wylye.
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The Deverills South of the River Wylye
Episode 4 of our Hidden Wiltshire podcast is now live in which we explore the village of Kingston Deverill and the hills to the south of the River Wylye. We follow a walk that both Glyn Coy have done about which I wrote a blog in May 2020 for the Hidden Wiltshire website.
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Exploring Bratton and Edington
Episode 3 of the Hidden Wiltshire podcast is now live. In this episode we explore the beautiful and historic landscape around the Wiltshire villages of Edington and Bratton.
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Knook Castle and Imber
The first episode of the Hidden Wiltshire was more successful than we imagined with around 500 listens. We’d have been happy with five! People from all over the world listened to it - Japan, Canada, USA, UAE, South Africa, several European countries as well as all across the UK. We were astonished.
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Including the fruitless search for Medieval Shaw Village
In my last blog I mentioned the blogs that I write for the Hidden Wiltshire website where I’m able to combine my love of walking with that for photography.
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