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    Lanhill Long Barrow
    hiddenwiltshire
    • May 12, 2019
    • 5 min

    Lanhill Long Barrow

    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,...
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    Castle Rings Fort
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Apr 24, 2019
    • 2 min

    Castle Rings Fort

    I discovered this Iron Age fort when I was looking at Oysters Coppice on the ordnance survey map. Just a short walk to the South West of ...
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    Oysters Coppice, Gutch Common
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Oysters Coppice, Gutch Common

    I was in two minds whether to write this blog post, as I wanted to keep this piece of Hidden Wiltshire all to myself. Oysters Coppice is ...
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    Heytesbury, Knook Castle and Upton Lovell
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Apr 7, 2019
    • 7 min

    Heytesbury, Knook Castle and Upton Lovell

    By Paul Timlett Inspired by Glyn Coy’s visit to Knook Castle in January 2019 I decided to visit it for myself. It’s around a 15 minute dr...
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    Bluebells in Wiltshire
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Apr 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bluebells in Wiltshire

    Bluebells are a welcome sight in spring, as blue carpets of flowers can transform our woodlands and for a few days and weeks turn them in...
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    Knap Hill, Medieval Shaw, Huish and Oare in the Pewsey Downs
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Mar 24, 2019
    • 10 min

    Knap Hill, Medieval Shaw, Huish and Oare in the Pewsey Downs

    By Paul Timlett. UPDATED 22 December 2020. Today I revisited parts of this walk and realised that I made a major mistake when writing the...
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    RAF Ramsbury Commemoration
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    RAF Ramsbury Commemoration

    This year I have started to appreciate Wiltshire's military past, and there are a lot of long abandoned RAF bases which are little more t...
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    Long Knoll and Little Knoll, Kilmington
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Mar 3, 2019
    • 6 min

    Long Knoll and Little Knoll, Kilmington

    Long Knoll (grid reference ST794376) is just to the south of Maiden Bradley and has long been a visible milestone to me on the way down t...
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    Whaddon and Semington - The Hidden War
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Whaddon and Semington - The Hidden War

    When I started Hidden Wiltshire I wanted to find those places off the beaten track. But just recently, I have started to appreciate how w...
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    Milk Hill, Tan Hill and Cliffords Hill - Pewsey Downs
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Milk Hill, Tan Hill and Cliffords Hill - Pewsey Downs

    By Paul Timlett A couple of months ago I volunteered to shoot photographs and write a blog for Hidden Wiltshire about three of the hills ...
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    Cold Kitchen Hill, Bidcome Hill and Bushcombe Bottom, The Deverills
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Feb 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Cold Kitchen Hill, Bidcome Hill and Bushcombe Bottom, The Deverills

    Right in the South West corner of Wiltshire you will find The Deverills, a string of villages between Warminster and Mere with the word D...
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    Copehill Down, Salisbury Plain
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 2 min

    Copehill Down, Salisbury Plain

    By Paul Timlett. If you've ever driven (or ridden) along the B390 road between Shrewton and Chitterne, or the minor road between Chittern...
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    Langford Lakes, Steeple Langford
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Langford Lakes, Steeple Langford

    I've been meaning to write a post about Langford Lakes for a while. It is in the Wylye Valley, and is a flagship site for Wiltshire Wildl...
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    Knook Castle
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 2 min

    Knook Castle

    Early in January when I was checking the Ordnance Survey maps for sites to visit in Wiltshire, I stumbled across an earthwork called Knoo...
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    RAF Zeals and the Dakota Memorial, Beech Clump
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 10, 2019
    • 3 min

    RAF Zeals and the Dakota Memorial, Beech Clump

    In my travels, I have discovered some great historical sites near the Stourhead estate. White Sheet Hill (Iron Age and Neolithic) and Par...
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    To do list
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    To do list

    I have big plans to grow the content of the site quickly this year, and to do that I'm trying to work out how other followers can collabo...
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    Seagry Spitfire Memorial
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Seagry Spitfire Memorial

    In September 2014 the village of Lower Seagry dedicated a memorial to two spitfire pilots who were killed nearby in 1941. Situated on a g...
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    "1917"
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    "1917"

    By Paul Timlett If Stephen Spielberg has his way this little corner of South Wiltshire will, in a year or so's time, become very famous i...
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    2018 in Review....and looking ahead to 2019
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Jan 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    2018 in Review....and looking ahead to 2019

    This site was born in 2017 out of a simple idea - find hidden places in Wiltshire, ones that are not so well known and visit them, photog...
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    Beckhampton - gateway to the Neolithic
    hiddenwiltshire
    • Dec 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Beckhampton - gateway to the Neolithic

    Beckhampton isn't really hidden, because many of us drive through it regularly as it stands on the A4, a thoroughfare that has been a bus...
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