I wrote about RAF Ramsbury earlier in the year, and touched on the part it played in World War Two. Today the site has been returned to agriculture and almost none of the original structure remains, although if you look at aerial photos you can clearly see the shape of the perimeter. Until this year if you were walking through the site at ground level you might see the odd concrete block but nothing to tell you of the part the airfield played in D-Day and the liberation of Eu

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 places you can find clues to a hidden past if you have your eyes wide open. All around Wiltshire are relics of its war time past, and this became abundantly clear to me when I did some recent visits to Whaddon and Semington. Credit where credit is due, I must thank John Grech for pointing these things out and helping me b

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 Westbury and as you approach it from the Westbury side, the road descends through some dark tree tunnels and you really feel like you are deep in the countryside. Curiously, the Government has placed a prison on the outskirts of the village, which is built around the old Erlestoke manor house. The manor house was bought by

Blakehill Farm Please note that this is an important wildlife site and big parts of it are not accessible to the public. If you want to fly a drone on site you will need to get permission from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust beforehand. At face value, this site is a flat, open grassland with a few meadows in the south west corner. It is quiet, peaceful and large but as a farm it is unremarkable. But dig a little into its history and stick a drone in the air and this site comes alive