Welcome to the Rudloe and environs website.

Here you will find news, articles and photos of an area that straddles the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north-west Wiltshire.

Contributions in the form of articles or photos are welcome. Even those with completely contrary views to mine!

Thanks to the website builder 1&1 and Rob Brown for the original idea.

Rudloescene now, in January 2014, has a sister, academic rather than anarchic, website about Box history here: http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/

It contains thoroughly professional, well-researched articles about Box and its people.

Contact rudloescene through the 'Contact' page.

Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Fort

September 2015 - up North

This tour took in Skegness, Hull, Driffield, Malton, Helmsley, Middlesborough (the transporter bridge), Hartlepool, Durham, Hexham, Hadrian's Wall (Housesteads Fort, the Roman settlement of Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum), the Weardale Railway and Killhope lead mine in County Durham, into Scotland and Whitrope Summit on the Waverley Route (whilst looking for the former Riccarton Junction), Shankend Viaduct, Hawick, Galashiels, Melrose (where we had an 'encounter' with the rich and famous), a trip on the Borders Railway (30 miles of the former Waverley Route opened by the Queen on 9th September - the longest domestic railway constructed in over 100 years) to Edinburgh, a tour of the Scottish Parliament building (marvellous internal spaces), Kelso, Holy Island (Lindisfarne), Seahouses, the Farne Islands, Ashington ... and the new Gloucester Services.