The Chalke Valley is in a very special part of South Wiltshire just north of the Dorset border.
Technically Broad Chalke is about 15 minutes drive west of the ancient Cathedral city of Salisbury and 25 minutes drive from Stonehenge. Spiritually though we are nestled in the heart of a quiet valley of Bronze Age earthworks and forgotten buried medieval villages, protectively encircled by majestic, sheep-nibbled, wild flowered, chalk downland criss-crossed by ancient ox droves and cathedral-like, beech tree lined lanes.
This is Hardy’s Wessex.