Corsham Red Heritage Trail

1 Head right downhill, left around the corner of the Doctor’s Surgery, right down Pickwick Road towards town and then take the second right along Paul Street.

2 Walk down to the end of Paul Street. Turn left and continue heading along the winding footpath, keeping the school on your right until you get to the very bottom of the hill where you turn sharp left to reach South Street. Turn right on South Street and at the end, cross over the road towards the railway footbridge.

3 Turning right at the railway footbridge head up along Tramways keeping the railway line to your left.

4 Continue to the end of Tramways passing the newly reconstructed aqueduct, then cross over Valley Road onto Potley Bridge.

5 Turn back from the bridge and take the first left and go through the avenue of trees along Pockeredge Drive.

6 Continue through the metal gate at the end of Pockeredge Drive and turn
right up the path to reach the quaint row of St Barbaras Road cottages in
Hudswell. Continue straight ahead up Hudswell Lane towards Park Lane. To the left of Hudswell Lane was the Basil Hill Barracks site, to the right 100 feet below the surface is Tunnel Quarry, one of Corsham’s WWII Central Ammunition Depots.

7 Turn right at the top of the hill and continue along Park Lane until you reach the Park Lane Quarry depot entrance opposite the Katherine Park estate roundabout.

8 Continue along Park Lane and turn left into Chestnut Grange. Bear right through the houses to the short path leading to the main A4 road at Pickwick. Turn right at the A4 to reach the front entrance of the Catholic Church.

9 Carefully cross the busy A4 road immediately in front of the Catholic Church, enter through the kissing gate and take the diagonal public footpath across the field to the far kissing gate.

Carry on in the same direction across the lane leading to Guyers House and through two more kissing gates. From here, the public footpath goes diagonally across the large field, but due to constant farming, you may have to turn left instead and skirt along the stone wall to reach Guyers Lane.

10 Turn right onto Guyers Lane and carry on walking for half a mile to the very end of Guyers Lane past Pickwick Lodge Farm then turn right onto the gravelled road that runs behind Pickwick Lodge Farm. The view across the wooded valley here is beautiful.

11 Keep walking ahead along the gravelled track through the farm gate and past Hillsgreen Lodge until you reach the top of Middlewick Lane.

12 & 13 Turn right down Middlewick Lane through the avenue of trees. On the right, behind Mermaid Cottage lodge house, is Middlewick House.

14 Continue down Middlewick Lane past the allotments on your left. On your right is Beechfield House.

15 Opposite the original wooden entrance gates to Beechfield House, turn left up the two stone steps and along the narrow footpath with garden hedges both sides. Continue ahead along the Woodlands road and then bear right at the bottom of the estate to reach the A4 road at Pickwick. Cross over the A4 here but be very careful, as there is normally a high volume of traffic. Turn left and take the first right into Priory Street. On the corner of the A4/Priory Street was Corsham Dairy.

16 From the old Dairy site, continue down Priory Street. On the left, at the Priory Street / Kings Avenue junction once stood Corsham’s last Police Station.

17 To get back the start of the walk, keep heading down Priory Street until you reach the path between Dill House (once the Spackman family home) and the Goldney House flats.

18 Turn right and head west up the footpath. Turn first left into Oliver Avenue and continue south until you reach Pickwick Road. Cross over and keep heading south along the cutting and follow the path left alongside the Fire Station. This brings you out opposite the Springfield Campus.

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