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.

The title photos show: April 2015 - the Miscanthus field which became the Park Place development (170 homes); May 2015 - the wooded area of the Bradford Road, the south (left) side of which was removed to enable the Dickens Gate development (88 homes) and July 2015 - poppies along the north side of the A4 with the RNSD Copenacre site beyond, this became the Bellway Copenacre development (100 homes)

5th July 2015 - a stroll around the summit of Box Hill and a little beyond to the east and west

23rd May 2015 - in the Bradford Road at Rudloe. The rural nature of this stretch of road will be completely destroyed (all the trees on the east side of the road will be felled) by the Hannick speculative development. The full list of trees that will go is given in the 6th October 2013 article in 'News Archive' here: http://www.rudloescene.co.uk/news-archive/ - the list includes ash, maple including Norway maple, oak, apple, goat willow and blackthorn (the sloes on the blackthorn are the size of plums - quite the biggest I have ever seen) and also wych elm (which was not included in the 2013 list). The wooded 'canopy' here is unique along the road's entire length between Corsham and Bradford.

3rd May 2015 - a lazy, vehicle-aided, perambulation around Box Hill, Lower Rudloe and Rudloe

18th April 2015 - the calm before the development storm. Working our way down the Bradford Road from Rudloe, the fields in these photographs are the subject of speculative planning applications from Hannick Homes, Redcliffe Homes and Gladman. In the remaining field, a new mine entrance and associated buildings are proposed by Hanson.