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Cherhill White Horse

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Mar 18, 2018
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Cherhill White Horse

The white horse on Cherhill Down is quite prominent, and can be spotted when you drive from Bromham towards Calne. It sits on a hill which is also an iron age hillfort known as Oldbury Castle., which started life as a bronze age enclosure in 1000BC, and developed into a hill fort around 500 years later. The horse itself dates back to the 18th Century, around 1780, so is similar in age to the white horse at Westbury. At the top of the hill you will also see a prominent, needle

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Grovely Wood and Little Langford Down

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Sep 4, 2017
2 min

Grovely Wood and Little Langford Down

Grovely Wood is big, and as it stands on a chalk ridge it is hilly and interesting. It is so big that I got lost in it when I was looking for Little Langford Down - my advice is to bring a map and be clear about your route. It is also ancient, with much evidence of Iron age settlements and a Roman road runs right through the middle of it. The ridge of the wood stands above the Wylye Valley on the North West side of Salisbury, and is full of paths to explore. Little Langford D

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Penn Wood, Calne

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Jun 21, 2017
2 min

Penn Wood, Calne

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 years for them to reach maturity. From the air, the site looks like grassland but from ground level the trees are tall enough to make this feel like a wood in the making. The second thing I noticed is that the site is a great vantage point to see some outstanding views. You can see Cherhill White Horse and the Lansdowne mon

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Flying Visits and how I Dislike them

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Jun 3, 2017
2 min

Flying Visits and how I Dislike them

When you are trying to capture the essence of many different sites by photograph in a relatively short space of time, it is tempting to do a flying visit - a quick in and out then on to the next one. I see tourists doing this all the time in Wiltshire. I was once at Silbury Hill and witnessed a car load of Americans pull into the car park, walk briskly to the viewing point, take some photos then race off again. This is an ancient monument that has been here for 4,500 years. R

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