Ramsbury Walk: I❤ Ohio 4 miles / 1½-2 hours OS Explorer 157 (Marlborough/Savernake) During World War 2, Ramsbury and surrounding villages were home to the Screaming Eagles, the US 101st Airborne Division whose Easy Company in particular have become immortalised as the “Band of Brothers”. Littlecote House was requisitioned in 1943 to house the officers …
BLACK DARRELL – A Ramsbury Ghost Story All the kids at school were talking about the ghost story. They said if you counted all 100 nails on the church door at midnight, the ghost of “Black Darrell” would rise up and get you. Tom didn’t believe a word of it but when he told everyone ghosts …
Ramsbury Walks – Seven Bridges Walk (Ramsbury #30) and Littlecote House Seven Bridges – circular 45 min (2mi) Seven Bridges and onto Littlecote 1 hour (2.5mi) This pretty and well-used footpath connects King’s Ditch (R#18B) with the C6 Hungerford Road out of Ramsbury and forms part of several popular circuits of the village. Watch your step – …
