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.
Asarum europeum ("very scarce" according to Flora Brittanica)* in woodland at Bannerdown. *See 2nd July 2017 photo below.
18th August 2024 - what a gay day. A walk to Bath to collect books brought some surprises - the Two Tunnels Marathon part of which coincided with my route along the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal between Bathampton and Bath and Bath Pride 2024 whose circular march started and ended in Great Pulteney Street. I was much delayed (pleasantly) through chatting with friends/acquaintances including Adam Wiltshire who was on a 60-mile cycle tour of Wiltshire and Somerset and then Derek Price who was clearing up the site of the former tennis ball factory at the foot of Quarry Hill.
The old Webb's shop site in Boxfields Road with Arthur Larkin's handiwork in the foreground
A floral tribute at the old prefab site in Boxfields Road, Leafy Lane Wood beyond
Misspelling at Quarry Hill
The environmental cost of convenience stores (Londis, Box)
Bathampton Meadows from the footpath over the river (adjacent to the railway)
Bathampton Meadows from the footpath over the river (adjacent to the railway)
Floating garden at Bathampton
The site of Bathampton Station from the Kennet & Avon towpath
Supporting Palestine on the Kennet & Avon
Having missed my bus, I spent a pleasant half-hour in Town + House (pub) in Thomas Street and then whilst waiting for the next bus, I noticed that many/most of the shops in this Snow Hill block are empty
Ref the title picture, it can't be that scarce as here it is again at Bradford-on-Avon railway station on 2nd July 2017
These 'classic' cars could be seen for many years opposite Kellands at Bathford - this picture from May 2014
The weir and toll-bridge at Bathampton
Dry stone wall and elderberries at Bannerdown
Close-up of dry stone wall and elderberries (Bathford church can be seen in the distance behind the poplars)
'Meadow View' at Stambridge soon to be renamed 'Park & Ride View' (13th July 2017 update - victory for the campaigners, landowner and locals - BANES Council has dropped the park & ride plans)
A ridiculous plethora of road signs at Fiveways, Stambridge. Which one would a passing motorist pick up on?
The Avon at Bathampton - this shot was supposed to include a kingfisher but he/she scarpered a second before
Gather cafe at Batheaston - great spaces, decor, music and food - well worth a visit
The Farleigh Down escarpment (Bathford Hill) and Bathford from Lower Shockerwick
Bathford, with the Limpley Stoke Valley beyond, from Bannerdown
Strange new houses at Stambridge, Batheaston
Plantain at the Shockerwick bus stop on the A4
The A4 heading into the Shockerwick bends
Campanula on the road bridge over the By Brook at Bathford on 27th June 2017
Track in Bathampton Meadows on 27th June 2017
Bathford from Bathampton Meadows on 27th June 2017
Midsummer's Day 2017 in Bathampton Meadows and an HST heads down the Limpley Stoke Valley for Bradford-on-Avon and beyond
Horseradish on the bank of the Kennet & Avon Canal at Bathampton
Meadowsweet on the bank of the Kennet & Avon Canal on 27th June 2017
The leaf miner, or other problem , on this horse chestnut by the K&A towpath has created an attractive pattern
Shockerwick woodland and linseed below Bannerdown on 27th June 2017
The A46 crosses the Avon twixt Batheaston and Lambridge - 4th July 2017
Horsetail under the A46 roundabout on 4th July 2017
Sweet peas growing wild by the A46 roundabout twixt Batheaston and Lambridge - 4th July 2017
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