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.
This giant maple at Ashley appears elsewhere on rudloescene but this picture gives an idea of scale
Greater celandine at Box traffic lights
Hawthorn surrounds the western portal of Middlehill Tunnel on 13th May 2018
Clematis montana at Ashley Farm House on 13th May 2018
Lime on Ashley Road on 13th May 2018
Cow parsley and beech on Ashley Road
Hawthorn at Lower Shockerwick with Upper Shockerwick beyond
Tom, Dick and Dick (should be Harry) at the eastern end of Ashley Road
Hawthorn at Ashley Road with Bannerdown beyond on 13th May 2018
Lower and Upper Shockerwick from Ashley Road
On the Ashley Road on 13th May 2018
On the Ashley Road on 13th May 2018
Wild garlic and cow parsley on Ashley Road
Red campion and cow parsley on Ashley Road with the view to Solsbury Hill
Cow parsley and hawthorn on Ashley Road close to Bathford
Oak and the view towards Colerne from Ashley Road on 13th May 2018
Holiday cottages are the first sign that we have arrived at Bathford
Mysterious door on Ashley Road - why only about 4 feet high?, what's with the shelf?
Campanula on the Kingsdown Road at Bathford, opposite the village cafe
Ploughman's platter at the Crown, Bathford
Greek platter at the Crown, Bathford
Hawthorn by and on the railway embankment at Bathford
Cow parsley by the A4 and hawthorn by the railway at Bathford with Farleigh Down beyond
Hawthorn on the A4 at Bathford on 18th May 2018
Hawthorn on the A4 at Bathford with Farleigh Down woodland beyond
Ashley Road buildings (holiday cottages behind middleground tree) from the A4 at Bathford; Farleigh Down woodland beyond
Cattle tunnel (I would imagine) under the railway at Bathford
Hawthorn on the A4 at Bathford - 18th May 2018
Comfrey and hawthorn on the A4 at Bathford
Cow parsley on the A4 at Bathford - 18th May 2018
Pink hawthorn in the hedge at Bathford looks a bit like sweet william
Hawthorn at Shockerwick bends on the A4
Red campion and hawthorn close to Shockerwick bends
The Wiltshire side of Shockerwick bends on 18th May 2018
The Wiltshire side of Shockerwick bends on 18th May 2018
The Wiltshire side of Shockerwick bends on 18th May 2018
The Wiltshire side of Shockerwick bends on 18th May 2018
The Wiltshire side of Shockerwick bends on 18th May 2018, this time looking west
Oak (at left) and hawthorn on the A4 at Shockerwick
Shockerwick House (at right) from the A4 on 18th May 2018
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