Hackpen White Horse
The Hackpen White Horse is a spindly, chalk figure etched into the hillside just below the Ridgeway and can be glimpsed from the A361 if...
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Glyn Coy
Jul 9, 20183 min read
Hackpen Hill, Barbury Castle and The Ridgeway
Hackpen Hill can be seen on the right as you drive north from Avebury towards Swindon. I have often glimpsed across to see the spindly...
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Glyn Coy
Jul 6, 20182 min read
Sunsets in Hidden Wiltshire
We all know where people congregate in Wiltshire around the time of the summer solstice. Stonehenge and Avebury get very busy on the...
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Glyn Coy
Jun 9, 20182 min read
Battlesbury Camp
I could see Battlesbury Camp when I walked up Scratchbury Camp a few weeks earlier. Another Iron Age hill fort in the hills above...
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Glyn Coy
May 31, 20182 min read
Clanger Wood
Wiltshire has a lot of woodland sites that are worth visiting, from the enormous Savernake Forest down to small pockets of ancient...
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Glyn Coy
May 20, 20182 min read
Box Hill circular walk
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...
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Glyn Coy
May 20, 20182 min read
Scratchbury Camp, Norton Bavant
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...
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Glyn Coy
May 5, 20182 min read
Erlestoke Park Wood
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...
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Glyn Coy
Apr 27, 20182 min read
Cley Hill, Warminster
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...
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Glyn Coy
Mar 30, 20181 min read
River Avon, Chisenbury
Early in 2018, I was asked to film some work done on the River Avon near the Chisenbury tank crossing just south of Upavon. This was...
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Glyn Coy
Mar 18, 20182 min read
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...
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Glyn Coy
Mar 8, 20182 min read
Roundway Down, Devizes
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...
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Glyn Coy
Dec 17, 20172 min read
Westbury White Horse and Bratton Camp
Bratton Camp is one of several Iron Age hill forts in Wiltshire, but this one is most famous for its distinctive White Horse carved into...
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Glyn Coy
Dec 11, 20171 min read
Winter Blues
I've been taking a bit of a hiatus from my Wiltshire wanderings this winter, but to prepare myself for spring and summer my focus has...
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Glyn Coy
Nov 21, 20172 min read
Devizes White Horse
Carved in 1999, this is the youngest of the carved White Horses and is located at bank field, close to Roundway Hill. It was created to...
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Glyn Coy
Nov 9, 20171 min read
Hat Gate, Marlborough
I found this tiny nature reserve on the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust website when I was looking for places to visit near Marlborough and...
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Glyn Coy
Oct 23, 20172 min read
Jones's Mill,Pewsey
The name of this Wiltshire Wildlife reserve is puzzling, as there is no mill here although there may well have been one in the distant...
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Glyn Coy
Oct 2, 20172 min read
Clouts Wood and Markham Banks, Wroughton
Clouts Wood is part of a quite large nature reserve in Wroughton, Wiltshire. The reserve itself is a connected habitat, which starts with...
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Glyn Coy
Sep 4, 20172 min read
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...
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Glyn Coy
Aug 16, 20172 min read
Dunscombe Bottom, Warminster
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...
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