Planning Your Adventure to the Vale of Pewsey
If you haven’t visited the Vale of Pewsey before, then it’s useful to have a few ideas and pointers on how to make the most of your stay here. The Vale of Pewsey is one of the best places in … Read More
The Great Bustard Safari
Lots of conservation work is undertaken across and beyond the Vale of Pewsey, performed with passion and enthusiasm by individuals, farmers, farmer groups, voluntary organisations, charities and others. One such charity is the Great Bustard Group. Sometimes it takes just … Read More
The Wheel of Wellbeing
We all know that our physical wellbeing and mental wellbeing need to be looked after. But it’s not all about getting your walking boots out and stomping off around the countryside! There are other activities such as crafting that can … Read More
Woodland & Windmill Walk
This circular walk is delightful! It starts and ends at The Swan Inn in Wilton and takes you up to Wilton Windmill, through Bedwyn and Wilton Brails (which are woodland) and then back across fields into Wilton village. It’s about … Read More
Butterflies, Cowslips & Hawthorn
What a glorious spring we have been enjoying! Even in this warm, calm weather, with no strong winds or heavy downpours, it reminds us that the seasons for any of the spectacular nature displays are short and really shouldn’t be … Read More
Walks for People who like Unusual Landmarks
There are plenty of unusual landmarks in the Vale of Pewsey and here are a few walks that take in some of them. Walk the Wootton Rivers walk to see two unusual landmarks – the steeple with Jack Spratt’s clock … Read More
Wolfhall in the Pewsey Vale
With the current BBC TV series, ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light’, a novel by the late Hilary Mantel, there has been lots of interest in Wolfhall’s location and its history. Wolfhall is a manor house just outside the … Read More
Local Poet Launches Book
Have you seen our video taking you all around the Pewsey Vale or the one of ‘The Blind Photographer’, a poem written by Ewen Cameron (Lord Cameron of Dillington)? Both videos were narrated by a local Pewsey Vale resident, Andrew … Read More
Two Sails on the Windmill!
As any recent visitors will have noticed, there are two sails are missing from Wilton Windmill. In mid-September the team was milling successfully when suddenly there was a loud crack followed by splinters of wood falling down from above. They immediately … Read More
Circling Back to the Vale of Pewsey
Our thanks to Tim Baynes, a Wiltshire artist and lover of the Vale of Pewsey, for this beautiful article. ‘A restless sky, Beneath distant grumpy hills Somewhere young greens are stirring, Lights from clouds create different bolts of green, We … Read More