Melsome Wood

Melsome Wood is a large and dense deciduous woodland blanketing the escarpment above the Avon Vale between Christian Malford village and Bradenstoke, which used to be called 'Clack'. It rises about 215 feet in less than half a mile. There were once two large wood mills in this area with a hamlet called 'Mills Ham'. 'Mills Ham' became corrupted to Melsome.
This view, made with a Pentax Optio S30 camera in midsummer 2006, is from the road between Foxham West End and Christian Malford, Wilts