The white horse at Broad Town is possibly one of Wiltshire's lesser known chalk carvings. Far from main roads, it is a hill figure that...

Inspired by Elaine Perkins’ post of 2 February in the Hidden Wiltshire Facebook Group about Newton Tony and the Winterbourne Downs RSPB...

This is a blog written by Elaine Perkins based on a walk she undertook on 9 March 2022. All photographs were taken by Elaine. We decided...

This is another walk that I’ve had planned for a long time. But I needed the right weather and the right time of the year (for reasons...

When Glyn and I recorded the last podcast we agreed it would not be right to discuss the catastrophic events unfolding in Eastern Europe....

David Carson MBE is an interesting man. A former Army Reservist and Cadet Force Officer, he has lived in Alton Barnes for most of his...

This is a blog that’s been 17 months in the making. I first discovered the Wilts & Berks Canal completely by accident in September 2020....

Listeners to the podcast will have heard us talk about Sarah Lucas. Sarah moved from Wiltshire to Scotland some 30 years ago and is a...

In the first major excursion of 2022, the Hidden Wiltshire team met up in Devizes to do a walk. Glyn Coy and Paul Timlett (the...

This blog has become something of a labour of love, albeit a challenging one. It also became somewhat of a saga. Chute Causeway, close to...

A walk in the very north of Wiltshire straying into neighbouring counties to see the stunning church at Inglesham.

By Steve Dewey In this blog post, we’re going for a short journey along Nine Mile River. It’s a short journey because it’s a short river...

Erlestoke Wood is quite a pleasant place to walk and I've already written on this site about its abundance of bluebells in the spring....

It’s been a while since I’ve put together a new walk for Hidden Wiltshire. And I have to admit I didn’t put this one together either. It...

The Gallops at Beckhampton has intrigued me for a long time. It is an expanse of land with mixed use, split between racehorse training...

Before St John's Church was built in West Ashton in 1846, the villagers would use St Mary's Church in Steeple Ashton for funerals. To get...

Whilst not unique to Wiltshire, clumps are something that many of us envisage when we think of the county’s landscape. Otherwise known...

About four years ago I did a walk on Fyfield Down to see the source of the sarsen stones (also known as grey wethers) from which Stonehenge was built. I decided to re-visit the area this week to refresh my memory but also to see the Devil’s Den which I missed last time. After weeks of seemingly endless rain the day was bright and reasonably warm with a few sunny spells, unlike my last visit when it was blisteringly hot. This is an eight mile walk with a multitude of options t

This walk starts in the Wiltshire metropolis of Warminster, but quickly leaves the urban area and heads up in the hills to explore more...

Over the years I have driven past the delightful Fonthill Lake but never stopped to take a closer look, so I resolved recently to rectify this and take a walk around the whole Fonthill Estate. The Fonthill Estate is some 9,000 acres in size and has been owned by the Morrison family since 1830. They have cultivated deep links with the county of Wiltshire in that time. Over the years a few Morrisons were Members of Parliament, and John Morrison, former MP for Salisbury was the