As Sarah Simmonds said on a recent talk to the Friends of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, we are really lucky to live so near to the wonderful World Heritage site of Avebury, it has exerted a huge influence over people, and continues to do so today.
I love walking there from Swindon, walking via the green lane beside the golf course, over the M4, up Ladder Lane and down the road towards Overtown, turning left, then through the farmyard, across a road and up to the Ridgeway, along there until Avebury can be seen below when one can descend into the centre of the village by the Red Lion. The number 49 comes along every hour to take you home again, making a round trip taking 4 hours if you time it correctly.
It's not always a good day for photographs, and last Wednesday wasn't that good, but I did capture this one:
I think that's the best, the others just don't match it:
I quite like the one above, and the one below has a just about discernable red kite in it.
It was a bit changeable and I thought it might rain
but it didn't, and the day ended up quite sunny with whispy clouds
I love walking there from Swindon, walking via the green lane beside the golf course, over the M4, up Ladder Lane and down the road towards Overtown, turning left, then through the farmyard, across a road and up to the Ridgeway, along there until Avebury can be seen below when one can descend into the centre of the village by the Red Lion. The number 49 comes along every hour to take you home again, making a round trip taking 4 hours if you time it correctly.
It's not always a good day for photographs, and last Wednesday wasn't that good, but I did capture this one:
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