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.
2nd March 2018 - the 'Beast from the East' has massively reduced the volume of traffic on Bradford Road
The Bradford Road at Rudloe with the Hannick/Bellway speculative greenfield development site to the right
Bellway's 'V Stack' (apparently) sign advertises 3- and 4-bedroom houses on this Rudloe greenfield site with the appellation 'Dickens Gate'
The beech enriches the wintry landscape at the entrance to Rudloe Estate
The Redcliffe 'Park Place' speculative greenfield development seen from the Rudloe-Hudswell byway on 2nd March 2018. According to Shelter, developers looking to maximise profit, are refusing to build required and agreed affordable homes.
Halfway Firs from the Bradford Road. This gate was, back in the 60s/70s the entrance to Rudloe's football field; the field is owned by Hanson who propose (planning permission received) a new entrance (and substantial buildings) to Hartham quarry here.
The Bradford Road at Rudloe looking south-west
Looking south from the Bradford Road at Rudloe; the EADS Airbus (supplier of aircraft used in the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign in Yemen which has caused thousands of civilian deaths) facility is across the field
This part of the Bradford Road at Rudloe is, in its own way, quite spectacular in every season but will be obliterated by Bellway's development
The western side of the Bradford Road at Rudloe
The isolated old barn, now converted to a house, on the Bradford Road will soon be surrounded by houses and a commercial development
The Bradford Road winds its way around to Rudloe Fiveways
Old man's beard and firs at ex-RAF Rudloe No. 2 Site in Westwells Road
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