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.
Box Hill with the entrance to Box village just around the bend. This view on 4th May 2018.
Steve of idverde, a (French) Wiltshire Council sub-contractor, on the A4 verge outside Rudloe Arms at the brow of Box Hill
The By Brook Valley from Box Hill on 4th May 2018 with the escarpments of Kingsdown and Bathampton Down at left and Bannerdown at right
Spring growth on the beeches of Box Hill
Another view of the Box Hill beeches looking west
The beeches, now looking east
The site of Moon Aircraft on Box Hill; the entrance to Clift Quarry can be seen at far left
Looking across the By Brook Valley to Colerne from mid-way up Box Hill
Honesty (Lunaria annua) twixt Box Hill Motors and Hedgesparrow Lane
Big goat willow below Box Hill Motors by the lane to Drewetts Mill
View across the By Brook Valley from the site of the Rising Sun (pub) which blew up (gas leak) in 1958
Well-shaped field maple (Acer campestre) by the site of the Rising Sun
The Box Hill approach to Box village
Continuing with the Box Hill approach to Box village
A further view of the A4 approach to Box village from the east
Still looking towards Box village from the A4 approach
Now looking back up the A4 from the Box village approach
The perfect end to a walk (apart from beer): cheese and beans on toast (plus pepper) and a cuppa at the Birdhouse Cafe
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