153.Hindon - Fonthill Lake

7/10

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Parking @ Hindon SP3 6EW

Back to Wiltshire for this week's walk and the rolling hills near Hindon 

148.Corston Brook fail

6/10

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Parking @ Corsham SN13 0LE

Another walk close to home,Weather was shocking ! it's June !!

Starting at Corsham,Leafy Lane to be precise. Route was suppose to follow the rest of Bybrook up the valley below this picture we've done other bit from box a couple of years ago.Started walk footpath missing one we took was very Wet !

After a mile or so we come to Bybrook and very pretty !

Then it seemed a few more miles rain was harder grass was wet,not many views of brook if fact not many views of anything so decided to detour and shorten walk , this bit going up through Rudloe Wood.Rain stopped now !

Very Green must be all the rain !

Normally you can see into Bath from here, Not today.

A highlight well, not for the birds ! Nice to see something but better if they were flying free!

Female Peacock kept separate from the Cocks !

Maybe best view of the walk, again sunny day Bathampton, Bath and Beyond .

Fact Point.                                           RAF Rudloe Manor
Built 1939 Played a part in the Battle of Britain. No.10 Group Fighter Command,  December 1939 - May 1945 formerly RAF Box. 
                The station was established on top of quarries from which Bath Stone had been extracted. In the 1930s some of the tunnels had been converted for use as a Central Ammunition Depot. The vast caverns had some 2,250,000 square feet (209,000 m2) of space, divided into many smaller chambers. WIKI

Another glorious view after just crossing the A4. Hope next week better weather !! 

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142. Dilton Marsh & Black Dog( 10 miles )

 6.5/10

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A walk this week starting at Beckington,Wiltshire and taking in Farmland and some of Black Dog Woods ,Through Dilton Marsh and returning crossing the A36/A361.

First Picture after crossing the A361 Road to Frome.

Newlands Farm looking towards Frome.

GWR Main Line and the EWS 66169 

Inside Black Dog woods, nice rope swing 

View from A3098 Dilton Marsh to Frome Road

Water Tower Chapmanslade

Lake and Dinner Spot,Godswell Grove Lake

A Ram looking Splendid in the now sunny conditions.

We cross the very empty,Rare, A36 

Looking up hill to Warminster 

Westbury White horse some 3.5 miles away.

Ploughing or rolling land ready for sowing 

Another sandwich stop overlooking Fairwood Junction and Class 66- 66546 Freightliner

 Passing Rudge some very dodgy footpaths here ,wrong signage and landowners changing  the rights of ways !! The Alpaca very Curious ! 

After more fields and not a lot else pleasant but nothing else, we come to White Row Farm and the end of Walk after .

  
crossing the busy A36,A361 junction  I say busy but luckily we hit a gap and run across ! then returning down the old Warminster Road to end.

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