Walk FRI 3 – Heritage Trail Evening Walk – The Red One

  • Distance: 5 miles
  • Grading: Easy
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Meet: 18:00, The Springfield Community Campus, Beechfield Road, SN13 9DN. What3Words: finally.stability.brushing
  • Price: £5
  • Age: 9+

Please note that dogs (other than assistance dogs) are regrettably not permitted on walks.

On leaving the start we make our way to Pickwick to walk down Middlewick Lane passing the 18th Century Middlewick House, once owned by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall but now owned by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd fame. The Masons regularly open the gardens to visitors, to raise money for charity.

Turning onto the old Turnpike Road with fine views out to Hartham House with its Sticke Tennis Court and The Larches when we turn left passing Pickwick Lodge Farm and down Guyers Lane to pass by Guyers House crossing the A4 onto Park Lane.

Past the active underground quarry entrance of Hartham Park Quarry and onto Huddeswell Lane were to the right was the former Basil Hill Barracks site, to the left, 100 feet below the surface, is Tunnel Quarry, one of Corsham’s WII Central Ammunition Depots.

Down Spring Lane to Pockeridge Drive passing the manmade lake to emerge at Potley Bridge and Tramways to pass the former Corsham Railway Station. Weaving our way back to the start and time to finish and socialise at one of the local hostelries.