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.
Horse chestnut at Hazelbury - 13th May 2018
Boxfields Road on 13th May 2018
Buttercups in Boxfields Road field owned by Payne (or is it Pain) of Colerne. This is the 'farmer' who sold off the field opposite the school on the Bradford Road at Rudloe which he bought for c£10k and sold for £millions. Farmer or developer?
Cow parsley and hawthorn in Boxfields Road on 18th May 2018
Cow parsley in Boxfields Road; Doohan's Wood beyond
Spring growth on the Virginia creeper at Tunnel Inn - 13th May 2018
Boxfields Road view towards Box Hill Common and the former quarries. The field in the foreground is the site of the quarry where the remains of Boxfields prefabs were buried.
Cow pow wow
Quarry Wood from Quarry Hill - 18th May 2018
Cow parsley and beech in Quarry Hill - 18th May 2018
Just part of an extensive network of (spiders'?) webs covering the bank in Quarry Hill - 18th May 2018
A family outing through Boxfields heading towards Wadswick or perhaps Hazelbury
A view towards the sun (not advised) at Boxfields
The family group can just be seen heading across the byway towards Chapel Plaister
Grouping together now as they approach the wilds of Hazelbury
The view to Kingsdown (golf course on the horizon) from Boxfields
Herb robert on dry stone wall close to Quarry Wood
Poplar seeds are flying through the air all around. The 'spent' seed pods lie along the Hazelbury-Box byway
Formerly coppiced (perhaps) hazel (perhaps) twixt Hazelbury and Ley Woods
Previously coppiced hazel (probably, or perhaps willow) in Ley Woods on 13th May 2018
Woodruff in Ley Woods. This plant can also be found twixt No Notion and Weavern and also between Weavern Lane and Collett's Bottom.
Horse chestnut and undergrowth in Ley Woods
The stupidity of modern man (woman!) never ceases to amaze. Bagged dog crap in Ley Woods.
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