Category: Historical Miscellany

It is amazing what you can discover online by chance whilst looking for something else.  A couple of months ago ...

St Mary's church contains a fascinating rare collection of medieval graffiti. A study was conducted by "Wiltshire Medieval Graffiti Survey" ...

A map of the Calstone and the surrounding area was drawn by a local artist, Michelle Tomlin, in the year ...

The village held a history exhibition in the old Reading Room at the top of Sprays Hill in March 2000 ...

Yes – really – he was (probably!) Let’s go back a year to March 2020 when I decided that it ...

I found in the London Metropolitan Archives an interesting document regarding a fund to rebuild St Paul’s cathedral. After the ...

This was taken from a Gazette and Herald article in the 1950's and reprinted in The Villages magazine in March ...

When Joan Wheeler Bennett lived at The Mill House she used to have a vineyard growing varieties of grape originating ...