Head for Wiltshire's Wide Open Spaces ; Nigel Vile Finds That the Perfect Walk for This Time of the Year Is Wiltshire's Famous Chalk Downland with Its Big Skies and Rare Wild Orchids

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Some walks simply demand certain seasons - the Avon Valley south of Bath in its autumnal splendour, the Severn Estuary with its flocks of migratory birds in winter and the Cotswolds bursting forth with floral activity in the spring.

And what of midsummer? There can be few better places than Wiltshire's chalk downland with the sun in his jealous sky - to quote the lyrics of a very beautiful song - among the fields of barley. Big skies and cumulous cloud cover, open views vast swathes of unimproved chalk grassland replete with the rarest of wild orchids.

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Head for Wiltshire's Wide Open Spaces ; Nigel Vile Finds That the Perfect Walk for This Time of the Year Is Wiltshire's Famous Chalk Downland with Its Big Skies and Rare Wild Orchids

I make no excuses for returning to those delightful chalk hills above Westbury, for this would be a desolate and depressing place t...

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