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 'byway' from Batheaston's £1 million bridge across the water meadow to Bathampton
The moss-covered, fallen poplar in Boxfields Road at the former escape route from Clift Quarry
Substantial wall between Box cemetery and Budgens with stream running from Kingsdown to the By Brook and sign 'Danger - Toxic Gas'
Ashley Road with giant beeches, and giant maple, at left and hazel catkins in the distance
Deer (make/model?) in Shockerwick water meadow on Mothers Day
The weir at Shockerwick bridge; been waiting to see dippers here - no luck so far but did see what looked like two small cormorants
Snowdrops and the view to the Farleigh Down escarpment at Shockerwick
Twixt Shockerwick and Bannerdown on Mothers Day
The Farleigh Down escarpment and the eastern reaches of Bathford from the Shockerwick-Bannerdown road
Coppiced trees on the Shockerwick-Bannerdown road
The Avon and the northern heights of Bath (Lansdown) from Batheaston
White lichen (and buddleia) on the dry stone wall that separates the A4 from the Avon at Batheaston
Distinctive alder outlines on the bank of the Avon at Batheaston
Always interesting garage/workshop in Batheaston High Street
Loads of dry grass here by the Avon at Batheaston; in our childhood arsonist days this would have been a target for a lighted match
The 1896 horse trough by the eastern gateway to Bath and its 'Welcome to Bath World Heritage City' sign - the rubbish has been here for months
Close-up of the horse trough - the bin bag and other detritus has been lying here for months in this 'World Heritage City' - a bloody disgrace
Stories that you perhaps won't see in the mainstream press on railings in Walcot Street
A local consultant has said (to me) that England is akin to a Banana Republic with regard to the provision of some health services.
Christmas-type lighting using empty bottles at the Curfew in Cleveland Place
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