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.
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Here we have brambles in Leafy Lane, marjoram with ragwort and an oxeye daisy, a rye grass with the Scots pine sentinel at the western end of Leafy Lane Wood beyond and convolvulus arvensis with the cowshed beyond all in Boxfields Road, the last two at the edge of the old married quarters (north) site
Before we head off down Boxfields Road, we see some contrasting creams and greys in the western sky
Some kind of oat grass in the foreground with an ivy-covered, concrete shelter beyond at the edge of the former married quarters (north) site and adjacent to the site of Webb's shop in Boxfields Road
The routes of Aldhelm Crescent and Everly Road are still visible 55 years after the demolition of the married quarters (north) site in Boxfields Road. In the foreground we see the southern stile of right-of-way BOX32 and a patch of yarrow.
Poppies and brambles on the southern side of Boxfields Road on 22nd July 2019
The married quarters (north) site again on 28th July 2019 with yarrow on the roadside verge
And this is the field, the site of a former quarry, where the remains of the Boxfields married quarters bungalows were dumped
Wadswick Agro-industrial (and Retail) Complex beyond the field of barley on 28th July 2019
A closer look now at Wadswick with the wind shaking the barley
Box village with Ashley and the escarpments of Kingsdown and Bannerdown beyond (and Lansdown beyond that) on 28th July 2019
The view across to the Colerne water tower with Brunel House in the left foreground and Ingalls Cottages in centre picture on 28th July 2019
By the 'back' road into Hazelbury Manor, a field of wheat with barley and Boxfields beyond
The view west from the Boxfields/Hazelbury wheat field on 28th July 2019
Some apiacae/wild carrot (formerly umbelliferae) or other by the roadside at Wadswick Agro-industrial Complex on 28th July 2019
The wider view of that apiacae/wild carrot with elephant grass (miscanthus) beyond at Wadswick on 28th July 2019
Oat grass at some kind at the 'top end' of ex-RAF Rudloe No. 2 Site with old accommodation blocks beyond on 28th July 2019
Sawfly caterpillars (possibly) on the 'green' at the southern end of Springfield Close - 28th July 2019
The site of Box Highlands School in White Ennox Lane on 29th July 2019
Looking west from White Ennox Lane over the barley field on 29th July 2019
Looking west from White Ennox Lane over the barley field on 29th July 2019
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