WILTSHIRE AUTUMN LANDSCAPE By Patrick Smith
Hill Fort Roundway Down
Ten days after a successful trip to Hatfield Forest for my last RPS Landscape group workshop – I was off driving west along the M4 to meet up with Robert Harvey to search out some photographic gems in Wiltshire. The itinerary detailed 6 different locations to visit so that I guessed we were going to have a full day ahead of us! Robert had sent directions for each location using the app ‘what three words’. I was interested to use this system for the first time. What a revelation it proved to be in giving precise locations in rural areas! – one cautionary note was that it is best to check if Google maps have identified the best road or track to reach the destination - as some of our group found, later in the day, that they were taken on the wrong route – fortunately no-one was permanently mislaid! Robert met us at 7am and gave us a brief history of the Savernake Forest – which is located just south of the market town of Marlborough and adjacent to the Wiltshire Downs. The forest covers an area of around 2,750 acres and includes many of the oldest oak trees to be found in this country. The Grand Avenue where we meet up is lined with beech trees and stretches for nearly 4 miles!
March 2022 Volume 7 Number 2
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