Article by Julia Howey Since 2021, a team of Parish volunteers has been managing four verges as part of a Wiltshire Council Highways initiative to showcase and promote wildflower friendly management cutting schemes for roadside areas. Verges are home to almost half of our native flora so they really need Read more…
Our landscape, our history Land use is often determined by the underlying physical environment, especially geology, topography and hydrology. Here we take a high level view of the most important physical characteristics of Wiltshire, from which we may extrapolate why different regions came to be used in distinct ways. In Read more…
Fosse Way – Gatcombe Mill – Fosse Way – Lugbury Longbarrow – Goulter’s Mill – Fosse Way Distance: 2.36 km Duration: 40-50 mins at average walking pace Elevation: ↑123m max.; ↓90m min. This walk can be split in half at the Fosse Way, with each walk taking around 25 minutes. Start at Read more…
West Kington Church – Wood Lane – Blacksmith’s Forge – Broadmead Brook – Nettleton Shrub Distance: 1.6 km approx. Duration: 35-40 mins at average walking pace Elevation: ↑135m max.; ↓101m min. In mid-May, ecologist Ann Skinner led some two dozen local nature-lovers on an expedition to discover a rich diversity of Read more…
Sunday 15th May 10.00-11:30 St Mary the Virgin Church, West Kington Invitation from Julia Howey If you would like to find out more about nature in our parish, please join us for a guided walk (1.5 hrs approx) looking at river banks, grassland, woodland and verges. We will meet at 10am Read more…
Blog by Ian Wilson A resume of local weather in the Burton area together with pointers of what to see in the night sky. The year started quietly with January dominated, much of the month, by a large area of high pressure or anticyclone (same thing). This gave us an unusually Read more…