As part of our affiliation to the Walkers are Welcome (WaW) network, we promote all things related to walking and the local area and last year we supported the Corsham Civic Society with their National Trust (NT) Heritage Open Days.
WaW have again asked Affiliated Towns to support the NT Heritage Open Days that goes from the 6th to the 15th September. Their website can be found at: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/
The programme of Heritage Open Day activities in Corsham and Box can be found in this leaflet.
Supported by a number of the Corsham Walking Festival Walk Leaders and local historians we are putting on four FREE walks that are listed below with a link to The Pound Booking System.
Three Chapels Ramble, 8th Sept, a gentle 7.5 miles, starts at the Corsham Pound Pill Primary School, SN13 9YW, at 9:30am. Visits Chapel Plaister, Monks Chapel, and the Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouses:
https://poundarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173656171/events
Box Heritage Walk, 14th Sept, a moderate 4.5-mile walk, starting at the Box Recreational Ground, SN13 8NT at 10am. Following the By Brook upstream to then visit Box Common and Hazelbury Manor before descending back into Box with superb views out towards Bath and beyond.
https://poundarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173656172/events
Corsham Heritage Figure of Eight Ramble, 15th Sept, a moderate 9-mile walk, starting at the Springfield Community Campus, SN13 9DN, at 10am. This walk will take in some of the magnificent buildings and countryside going first out to the East with views out to Cherhill Hill before returning for lunch at the Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouses. After which we head out West passing historical landmarks and buildings.
https://poundarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173656173/events
All About Trees, 15th Sept, a gentle family walk of 2-miles, starting at the Lacock Road Car Park, SN13 9QG, next to Corsham Football Cub, at 10am. Looking at native trees and shrubs the walk will pass through the Ladbrook Cemetery, The Batters past Pound Pill to South Avenue and on to St. Barts before returning to the start via Corsham Park.
https://poundarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173656175/events
Although not a walk as such, there is a talk being given by John Chandler on Corsham’s Legacy of Lost Highways. By examining historic maps, but also the surviving features along our lost and current roads, it is possible to explore the network of communications that has enabled Corsham as a community to thrive, and its inhabitants to move around. Talk takes place at The Pound on the 11th Sept at 2:30pm.
https://poundarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173656180/events
Although all the above events are FREE please use the links to book your places. For the walks, please bring refreshments and dress accordingly.