In the very south west of Wiltshire the River Ebble runs from its source at Berwick St John some 15 miles east until it joins the River Avon just south of Salisbury. The river bisects two parallel ranges of chalk downland upon the top of which run two ancient ridgeways. The area between these ridgeways is what we know as the Chalke Valley. This is a gentle open free flowing stretch of country with a few deep hollows carved by glaciers out of the downs. The ground shifts and modulates, but nowhere is it sharp or harsh. It is a soothing landscape, which to me is God’s own country.
Looking over Bishopstone from Faulston Drove
Belties on a frosty morning
River Ebble at Faulston
Autumn up Faultson Drove
Summertime at Stratford Tony
Cow parsley and mist above Pug’s Hole Bowerchalke
Track to Bowerchalke
Footbridge at Fifield
From Marleycombe Hill looking NW
Bowerchalke from Marleycombe Hill
Grant’s frosty valley on a very,very cold morning.
Fifield water meadows in winter
Fields of gold
Sheep above Alvedistion
Fifield Bavant church and the plough
Spring mist over Fovant
Wild garlic and fresh beech leaves, Vernditch wood.
Norrington Farm, rainbow.
Norrington Farm sunrise
Norrington Farm in swirling mists – October
Wingreen on a windy December dawn
Storm blowing through the Wingreen beech trees
Early morning looking down the valley towards Broadchalke
This was taken in July at some ungodly hour. Worth getting up for.
Chalke valley panorama
It is one way of passing the night, taking endless images hoping to catch a solitary shooting star.
