A collection of Moths on Salisbury Plain

[graham]

A friend of mine who enjoys trail riding was out on his bike a couple of days ago. He came across this lovely scene somewhere on Salisbury Plain. I've messaged him to ask "where?" but he hasn't come back to me. Here are the photos he took and posted on Facebook, does anyone know where this is and what was going on please?

Moths 6 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

Moths 5 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

Moths 4 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

Moths 3 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

Moths 2 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

Moths 1 by Graham Brown, on Flickr

[whitebear]

Graham....it is Charlton Drove strip. Apparently the Tiger 9 use it for pre-season practice and that is why they were gathered there. One of the 9 lives on the strip.

GtW

[graham]

Many thanks Graham, it's only five miles from home and I never even realised it was there. There's a pub on the main road which closed many year ago, it was originally called "The Charlton Cat" and was I believe at one time owned by Barbara Windsor. It was then bought by a retired ex Flying Squad policeman who changed the name to "The Sweeney", the pub sign featuring a police "jam sandwich", a barber's red and white pole and a meat pie. It then reverted to the Charlton Cat for a while before closing as a pub, was a tea room for a while but finally close about five years ago.

My mate has since come back to me and said he found the field on the track from the village out in to the wilds of the Plain

[whitebear]

Odd, innit. We have a village called Charlton...just a couple of miles from Oaksey and Crudwell...pub still open and we do still visit the pub...Horse and Groom!

[graham]

There's a Charlton just outside Andover too, seems a popular village name darn sarf.

[rh226]

IIRC, there was a village called Charlton just S of Ashford (Surrey, formerly Middlesex) that was drowned when the Queen Mary Reservoir was built.