Morgans & Roundway Hill Circular Inc Olivers Castle Hill Fort - Upper Limits UK

Today it was over to the pretty village of Heddington, Wilts for a 9.5 mile circular taking in Morgans, Roundway and Beacon Hill as well as Olivers Hill Fort, all providing fantastic views over the county.

We had planned to start this route from the Ivy Inn, Heddington but it’s currently closed and up for sale. Instead we started from the recreational ground car park which is free but doesn’t have any facilities.

From here we headed NE on good paths over to Stockley, turning East here to start the climb up to the Wireless Station and Masts on the top of Morgans Hill at 250m. Heading across to Furze Knoll, we did bag the 260m trig point as well as taking in part of the Wansdyke path. Furze Knoll is a prominent circular copse but does not have any historical info to note.

We decided to head South on the Byway from here rather than continuing on the Wansdyke path. This simply meant we cut the corner to pick up the Byway open to all traffic heading SW to pick up the Mid Wilts Way over to Roundway Hill and the Devizes White Horse. My pictures would have benefited from a few drone shots here as its not fully visible from the groud at this point!

Next it was onto Olivers Hill Castle / Fort, extending the route slightly to take in the views from 207m before heading onto Beacon Hill at 213m. This was worth doing.

We stayed left of the byway here to pick up the track over open access land down to the 120m contour and Byway open to all traffic leading round to Church Farm and St Andrews Church Heddington. The lack of stain glass windows made this a very bright church inside and although it had the original pews and stone floor, lacked character of many others we have visited. The roof of the International Meditation Centre stood out far more.

Here is todays route fly through: Morgans & Round Hill Loop Inc Olivers Hill Fort! https://www.relive.com/view/vWqBdPkRNYO