Broad Town Homepage


Dist:0.3km<br/>The viewpoint is the top of the scarp overlooking north Wiltshire.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>A ploughed field alongside the scarp of Broadtown Hill.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Viewed from halfway up the ridge to the north.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.5km<br/>The White Horse Trail crosses the main road at this point.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.7km<br/>The lane is seen heading east into the village of Broad Town.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>Beside the footpath between the village and Littletown Farm. This is in an area of mostly pastoral farmland that lies beneath the scarp at the northwestern edge of the Wiltshire downs.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>The top of Broadtown Hill is rather flat. The trees in the background are on the northern gridline of this square.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>A large arable field, to the west of Broad Hinton.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.7km<br/>With mixed relatively flat farmland stretching out beneath the wooded scarp.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>The land slopes gently down towards the market town of Wootton Bassett just visible on the skyline about 5 kilometres away.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.8km<br/>The footpath follows the strip of overgrown headland. The crop is maize. In the past, maize was grown in Britain mainly as animal fodder, although sweetcorn varieties have been grown on a small scale in the south-east for the table. New varieties which will ripen in our climate have now been introduced. In Victorian times maize for silage was cut green and fed to cattle in June and July. Today it is left to become as ripe as possible and harvested with a special machine which chops stalk, leaf and head together; it is then stored in silos.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.8km<br/>Can be glimpsed in the distance, on the ridge, above Littletown farm. Reputedly cut in 1864, by the Reverend William Simmonds.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.8km<br/>View north across the fields just to the west of the village. In the distance can be seen the town of Wootton Bassett.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking east towards Broad Hinton.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.8km<br/>In the past, maize was grown in Britain mainly as animal fodder, although sweetcorn varieties have been grown on a small scale in the south-east for the table. New varieties which will ripen in our climate have now been introduced. In Victorian times maize for silage was cut green and fed to cattle in June and July. Today it is left to become as ripe as possible and harvested with a special machine which chops stalk, leaf and head together; it is then stored in silos.
©Trish Steel

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]

Members Nearby

Broad Town Discussion Forum


Places Near Broad Town

Berwick Bassett • Broad Hinton • Broad Town • Bushton • Church End • Clevancy • Clyffe Pypard • Coped Hall • Cotmarsh • Elcombe • Elm Cross • Freshbrook • Highway • Hook Street • Lydiard Tregoze • Lyneham • North Wroughton • Overtown • Preston • The Barton • Thornhill • Tockenham • Toothill • Uffcott • Vastern • Winterbourne Bassett • Winterbourne Monkton • Wootton Bassett • Wroughton • Yatesbury •