We are the West Wiltshire Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
Nigel V
‘The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’. I have changed the walk from the original route due to a rocky and rutted track between Pipehouse and Midford that would fail H&S criteria. The new route will still go from Hinton Charterhouse to Hinton Charterhouse (!) by way of Norton St Philip, Wellow Lane and Cleaves Wood. It appears in Roger Jones’ book ‘Where Wiltshire Meets Somerset’. A pleasant pastoral landscape, one of the many pubs that lays claim to being England’s oldest, the site of several executions following Judge Jeffreys’ Bloody Assizes, a quiet country lane and some ancient woodland. A clearing in Cleaves Wood is a lepidopterist’s paradise with as many as 27 species of butterfly having been spotted there. Bring snack.
Please TEXT by close of play on Sunday 11th May if you plan on coming along, with numbers being capped at 20 due to relatively limited parking and my usual fragility with big numbers..
Park in Green Lane in Hinton Charterhouse just before the church, postcode BA2 7TJ.
