Your walk leader will share with you the rich history of the area as you enjoy a beautiful undulating route from Corsham to Box via Colerne. Optional post walk refreshments at Box. Bring a packed lunch.

After leaving the start we cross Pickwick Road to enter Meriton Avenue Recreation Ground created in 1921 to celebrate peace after WWI. Following Priory Street to the site of the Old Dairy at the junction of the A4 we enter what once was the grand entrance to Beechfield House, now an estate but still marked by tall conifer trees.

Passing Middlewick House, home of Nick Mason, drummer, Pink Floyd, we follow the Old Toll Road with views out to Hartham Park to descend into The Larches and onto Weavern Lane before coming down towards the now derelict Weavern Farm that ceased working in 1834.

Crossing the By Brook we enter the Woodland Trust’s Monk’s Wood and onto Euridge Manor a former home of Sir Walter Raleigh. Heading North we come to Thickwood, once the Married Quarters for former RAF Colerne and onto towards Colerne along a bridleway with far reaching views out to Salisbury Plain and Calne.

A detour down to Lower Eastrip allows us to follow a bridleway to emerge opposite Pear Tree Studios before heading up to Colerne.

Colerne offers us the chance of refreshments and toilets.

We now head back South towards the By Brook Valley crossing the Lid Brook and into Ditteridge and onto Middlehill through Jamie’s Farm.

Middlehill gives us the opportunity to view the western portal of Brunel’s Box Tunnel. Once again crossing the By Brook we enter Box Rec and onto the end of the walk.