The traffic on the M25 is hosed again
Walking the Ridgeway: Chiseldon to Avebury, Wiltshire - 10th August 2026
Nosher, Isobel and Harry are off down to Jules' and Mark's walled garden near Chiseldon in Wiltshire, partly because it's a nice place to be and also because the Italians are over again for a few days and Isobel wants to meet up. We're only there for a couple of nights, and Isobel's technically working, so Nosher heads off on an epic ten mile hike from Burderop Park to Avebury, a route which follows part of the National 45 cycle path around Barbury Castle - an iron-age hill fort - before joining up with the Ridgeway, said to be Europe's oldest road. It eventually crosses the Wessex Ridgeway which heads into Avebury, where the final destination is the Red Lion pub and the sweetest pint of beer ever tasted. Later on, we meet up with the Italians again at the Royal Oak pub in Bishopstone
previous album: Alan's 80th Birthday, Eye, Suffolk - 8th August 2026
Harry gets another photo of stacked M25 traffic
We have lunch under the fig tree
The walled garden is now full of plants
The restored Victorian greenhouse
Inside the Victorian greenhouse
Isobel and Jules visit the new building
Dog wants you to throw his ball
The new library building
Isobel and Jules in the walled garden
A bistro table and chairs in the wildflowers
A collection of homemade earthenware
Jules hugs Elliot as Harry lurks
Harry and Elliot chat at the table
Luna boings in the air
Mark's on barbeque duty
Mark's dad and the Italians join us for dinner
The terracotta pots make handy wine holders
There's a big turn-out for dinner
Bales of straw in a Wiltshire field
Looking back down the road to Chiseldon
A 'God bless the NHS' mural on a barn
Walking up part of National Cycle Route 45
Route 45 opens up
The fields of Wiltshire
A view from Barbury Castle - an iron-age hill fort
Barbury Castle hill fort
A solitary pile of straw bales in a field
On the Ridgeway path
A dead bush on the Ridgeway
The chalk path is brutally hot
The Wessex Ridgeway falls down into Avebury
The Wessex Ridgeway has turned into a road
Standing stones in Avebury stone circle
Impressive hanging baskest at the Red Lion
Jules, Isobel, Elliot and Harry have arrived
Part of the Avebury stone circle
Avebury's Red Lion pub
A thatched building over the road from the pub
One of Wiltshire's nine horse carvings
Arkell's beers in the outside bar at the Royal Oak
A pair of B-1B Lancers flies over the pub
Helen Browning's Royal Oak pub
Elliot checks his phone as Harry scopes the menu
Mark and the Italians have joined us for dinner
A pigeon wants what Harry's got
The pub's outdoor kitchen
Davide messes around in the undergrowth
The downstairs bar of the Royal Oak, Bishopstone
A nice thatched house next to the pub
The Edwardian Royal Oak in Bishopstone
A pair of nice Wiltshire thatched cottages
Mark and Jules chat to a regular
Harry helps to load up some plants
The van is full of potted grasses
Harry in action
Harry reads his book
Harry with Luna
The Ravine part of the gardens
Isobel in the woodshed
Harry hangs around by the kitchen door
We're back at South Mimms
Harry returns from a mission to score road food
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The traffic on the M25 is hosed again
The traffic on the M25 is hosed again
Harry gets another photo of stacked M25 traffic
We have lunch under the fig tree
The walled garden is now full of plants
The restored Victorian greenhouse
Inside the Victorian greenhouse
Isobel and Jules visit the new building
Dog wants you to throw his ball
The new library building
Isobel and Jules in the walled garden
A bistro table and chairs in the wildflowers
A collection of homemade earthenware
Jules hugs Elliot as Harry lurks
Harry and Elliot chat at the table
Luna boings in the air
Mark's on barbeque duty
Mark's dad and the Italians join us for dinner
The terracotta pots make handy wine holders
There's a big turn-out for dinner
Bales of straw in a Wiltshire field
Looking back down the road to Chiseldon
A 'God bless the NHS' mural on a barn
Walking up part of National Cycle Route 45
Route 45 opens up
The fields of Wiltshire
A view from Barbury Castle - an iron-age hill fort
Barbury Castle hill fort
A solitary pile of straw bales in a field
On the Ridgeway path
A dead bush on the Ridgeway
The chalk path is brutally hot
The Wessex Ridgeway falls down into Avebury
The Wessex Ridgeway has turned into a road
Standing stones in Avebury stone circle
Impressive hanging baskest at the Red Lion
Jules, Isobel, Elliot and Harry have arrived
Part of the Avebury stone circle
Avebury's Red Lion pub
A thatched building over the road from the pub
One of Wiltshire's nine horse carvings
Arkell's beers in the outside bar at the Royal Oak
A pair of B-1B Lancers flies over the pub
Helen Browning's Royal Oak pub
Elliot checks his phone as Harry scopes the menu
Mark and the Italians have joined us for dinner
A pigeon wants what Harry's got
The pub's outdoor kitchen
Davide messes around in the undergrowth
The downstairs bar of the Royal Oak, Bishopstone
A nice thatched house next to the pub
The Edwardian Royal Oak in Bishopstone
A pair of nice Wiltshire thatched cottages
Mark and Jules chat to a regular
Harry helps to load up some plants
The van is full of potted grasses
Harry in action
Harry reads his book
Harry with Luna
The Ravine part of the gardens
Isobel in the woodshed
Harry hangs around by the kitchen door
We're back at South Mimms
Harry returns from a mission to score road food