Essential Wessex: The Baptism of Cynegils
Lo, I shall tell you the truest of visions, a dream that I dreamt in the dead of night while people reposed in peaceful sleep. I seemed to see the sacred tree, lifted on…
Wessex Attractions: Cheltenham Racecourse
Cheltenham (or Chiltenham, to use the West Saxon spelling) Racecourse, known as "the home of jump racing", was founded in 1815, and has been at its present site since 1831,…
Wessex On Screen: I See A Dark Stranger
I See A Dark Stranger, retitled The Adventuress in the US, was a spy thriller starring Deborah Kerr, made during World War 2, but not released until 1946.An epilogue was…
Wessex in Fiction: Dragon’s Rock.
Dragon's Rock is a 1995 young adult novel by Devon-based author Tim Bowler. It was inspired by a view of a dilapidated farmhouse and a standing stone that Bowler would…
Essential Wessex: Aerial Archaeology
The use of aerial images in archaeology has its origins in the 1920s. One of its pioneers was O G S Crawford, who was born in India, but spent much…
Essential Wessex: Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village
Hound Tor. on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, shows evidence of having been settled since the Bronze Age, possibly earlier. Archaeological investigations in the 1960s revealed evidence of longhouses, barns…
Essential Wessex: Winchester Road Protests
Wessex's natural environment, particularly in its overdeveloped eastern half, is under constant pressure from new construction. Beginning in the 1970s but peaking in the 1990s, this has led to direct…
Essential Wessex: Sir John Popham
Sr John Popham (1531-1607) was a notorious hanging judge who also served as MP for Lyme Regis and then Bristol, and as speaker of the House of Commons. He was…
Wessex In Fiction: The Slaves of Solitude
The Slaves of Solitude is a 1947 black comedy by Patrick Hamilton set during World War 2 in a boarding house in the fictional Berkshire town of Thames Lockdon, modelled…
AGM, Longbridge Deverill
On 23rd October, the nearest Saturday to King Alfred Day, a handful of us met to visit the churches at Longbridge Deverill and Kingston Deverill, near Warminster. Kingston Deverill's Alfred…
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