Stonehenge
This weekend sees a ‘Big Farm Machinery’ line up at ‘Tractor Ted’s Little Farm at Bowood’, featuring a very special display of brand new farm tractors and machinery alongside their smaller vintage counterparts. This family-friendly event is bound to be a hugely popular with Tractor Ted’s machinery-mad audience…particularly for boys, both big and small, who […]
Longleat will soon be playing host to some of the biggest names in fishing when they launch their inaugural Fishing and Country Show on June 14th-15th. The show is set to be the largest of its kind in the South of England, providing visitors with the chance to see, and take part in, a variety […]
Just two days after the launch of his latest book, prize winning and best selling historian William Dalrymple will be over in the UK from India and heading to Wiltshire for the first in the 2013 calendar of ‘The Library Talks at Bowood Hotel’ on Wednesday 6 February. Here he will provide an outline of […]
The BBC One Show programme’s Rickshaw Challenge team made their way through Wiltshire, raising funds for Children in Need. Pedalled by six volunteer young people with connections to the charity, the bike was on the long journey from Llandudno in North Wales to London where it finally arrived on Friday 16th November – official Children […]
Old Sarum was home to a special Archaeology Weekend – part of the 22nd Festival of British Archaeology. It was the perfect opportunity to get hands-on with artefacts, see some of Old Sarum’s treasures and even get your own artefacts examined. For children there was also the chance to excavate a skeleton buried in a sandpit. […]
From 10th – 12th July Fire Garden, created by French outdoor fire alchemists Compagnie Carabosse, will transform Stonehenge into a glowing fairy-tale environment where fire sculptures dance in the landscape, flaming fire pots animate the stones and cascades of candles line the pathways. Responding to the purpose, perception and heritage of the site, visitors will […]
LOCOG has chosen Salisbury Cathedral as the iconic location for the official start of Day 55 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, Thursday 12 July. David Coulthard, Director of Marketing and Communications, said “We hope to welcome many hundreds of people here in the Cathedral Close between 7.00am – 8.00am to see the Olympic […]
It’s very early in the morning and much clattering and banging is going on in the village of Great Wishford. But it’s nothing unexpected – it’s the traditional start to Oak Apple Day. The 29th May is a special day for the villagers because it is the day that they re-assert their rights to collect […]
Longleat Safari & Adventure Park is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with its very own royal pageant featuring falconry on horseback, strolling minstrels, jesters and historical royal visitors. The ‘Jubilee Jestival’, which runs from June 2nd-10th, will see the launch of a spectacular new birds of prey show with falconers on horseback. The new display, […]
This June the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival is coming to Old Sarum, thanks to a project funded by Natural England and the BIG Lottery – Nature Of Art In Wessex. As always the Festival brings a great range of free outdoor events for everyone to be able to enjoy, including a Meadows and Down […]
