Saturday, 12 July marks the Grand Opening of Salisbury’s new world-class £2.4 million Wessex Gallery of Archaeology at Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire, by BBC Time Team and Coast presenter Professor Alice Roberts. Join in on an action-packed day of celebrations, special events, amazing displays and demonstrations – free to the public – from 10am to […]
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall will formally open Wiltshire Council’s award-winning refurbished County Hall when she visits Trowbridge on Monday 23 June. The Duchess will spend an hour touring County Hall, before unveiling a plaque in the Atrium to commemorate her visit and to officially open the refurbished building. During the tour, she […]
The Spire FM Midsummer Speed Fest surges into action on Saturday and Sunday June 21st and 22nd with two packed days of competition at Gurston Down Speed Hillclimb, Broad Chalke, near Salisbury, the country’s most copiously-awarded speed venue. And on Sunday June 22nd we will see the Gurston Down competition debut of one of the […]
The Royal British Legion’s Wiltshire county parade and rededication took place in Salisbury on 8th June 2014. An annual event, this year it also commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The servicemen and their standard bearers marched along Blue Boar Row, Queen Street and New Canal to St Thomas’s Church where the service of rededication […]
Elite international cyclists will be racing through the streets of Wiltshire this September after confirmation that a number of the county’s towns are on the route map for one of the world’s key cycling events. The Tour of Britain, which attracts more than 100 top international cyclists, will thread its way through the centre of […]
Tractor Ted’s Little Farm at Bowood will be enhanced this Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 May with the return of the popular ‘Big Machines’ weekend. Over a million pounds worth of new farm machinery will be demonstrated and displayed to visitors on both days from 12-4pm. During the event, not only can Bowood visitors enjoy the Little […]
Summer is just around the corner and with it comes British Cycling’s Sky Ride Local programme in Wiltshire. The popular programme of rides, guided by trained British Cycling ride leaders, is set to kick off again on Sunday, June 8 in Trowbridge, with rides happening later in the month in Devizes, Chippenham and Salisbury. Organised […]