By Paul Timlett I feel a deep sadness every time I visit Imber. Over the 25 years that I’ve lived in the area I’ve been to this abandoned village many times....

By Steve Dewey Because I have a brother in Westbury, and I used to live in Marlborough, one of the interesting ways back and forth between our houses was to ...

The mysterious Robin Hood's Bower can be found deep in the heart of Southleigh Wood near Warminster. I cannot seem to find out how it arrived at its name, bu...

I have often driven from Steeple Ashton towards Edington and admired the contours of Edington Hill. Unlike its near neighbour at Bratton which houses the fam...

By Sara French from Hireth Woodland Therapy It is Good Friday and sunny as you like. The Orange Tips flit hither and thither. Just ahead, not promising a gre...

When I started Hidden Wiltshire I wanted to find those places off the beaten track. But just recently, I have started to appreciate how within many of these ...

Early in January when I was checking the Ordnance Survey maps for sites to visit in Wiltshire, I stumbled across an earthwork called Knook Castle. It has a d...

In this post about a wood, you will find no photos of woodland because while this is a location with many trees, the greater interest is found in the river a...

I could see Battlesbury Camp when I walked up Scratchbury Camp a few weeks earlier. Another Iron Age hill fort in the hills above Warminster, the ramparts ar...

Wiltshire has a lot of woodland sites that are worth visiting, from the enormous Savernake Forest down to small pockets of ancient woodland like Clanger Wood...

This is a 3 mile walk that takes you up and around Box Hill. Detail of the route and a map can be downloaded here: Walk and Map. Box Hill is a small village ...

While driving out of Warminster towards Salisbury there are some hills on the left side of the road. One of them has a prominent barrow on the summit with a ...

Erlestoke is a place I've often driven through but never really stopped to take a look. It is a nice little village on the road between West Lavington and We...

A long time ago, the Devil heard that Devizes had converted to Christianity so he filled up a sack of earth from Somerset and set off to find the town, with ...

Roundway Down is an Iron Age hill fort on the outskirts of Devizes and is an imposing sight. This steep hill can be seen for miles around. I often spot it wh...

I had mixed feelings when I looked into visiting this site, as it looked like a tiny slither of land with no footpath access which had been turned over to gr...

One of the first things I noticed about Penn Wood is that it isn't a wood. At least, not yet. In 2010 some 10,000 trees were planted and it will take some ye...

Like all established woodland, when you walk around Vincients Wood you really feel like it is old. It's not a a large wood - at just under 6 hectares it does...

While Wiltshire Wildlife Trust manages some large, rural sites it also looks after little pockets of urban wildlife. Conigre Mead is a tiny piece of land in ...

Biss Wood is a standalone site, separated from Green Lane Wood by a field which will eventually become Green Lane Wood nature park. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust ...