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Swindon and Salisbury, Chippenham and Calne, Melksham and Marlborough,
Devizes and Downton.
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| 3513 | Olympic Torch - dates and places in Wiltshire in 2012
The route of the Olympic Torch through Wiltshire has been announced and is detailed on the Olympic website. put your postcode into their page [here] to find out where it passes near you.
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Frome
Southwick
Trowbridge
Bradford on Avon
Bath
Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Chippenham ... | 2011-11-08
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| 1399 | Pictures Framed
A comment the other day reminded me just how powerful picture frames are - as shown in these pictures of Wiltshire. All offset by the photographic composition. Select individual images to enlarge them! ... | 2010-10-13
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| 2923 | Fresh air and beautiful places in Wiltshire
After all of our hotel guests had arrived yesterday, we were able to take a brief break - do a little shopping [no pictures] and get a breath of fresh air. We're only a short drive from the Westbury White Horse; we went onto Salisbury Plain just above the horse and breathed in the countryside - ran ... | 2010-10-08
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| 2882 | Seeing Wiltshire - from a Melksham base
Last weekend was a busy one - we were running a training course for delegates from outside the UK, and as they didn't leave until Sunday we showed them around - "did the tourist thing" with them. Pictures follow.
Advert 1 - for delegates on courses who wish to stay an extra day or two - there's PLENTY ... | 2010-07-30
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| 2888 | Recent Pictures
In each case, click on the link for a whole page of larger pictures!
Bath Spa University. Pictures of the University at Newton St Loe, taken at Kimberly's Graduation
Foxhangers, Kennet and Avon Canal. Pictures taken on a walk with the dog the other day!
Sway, near Lymington, Hampshire Taken when I ... | 2010-07-27
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| 2750 | Views of Wessex
Melksham Oak Community School near completion - the signs are up, and the oak tree itself is looking somewhat more pretty with spring leaves. More pictures [here].
Where is this magnificent building? Is it Rome or Athens, perhaps? No - it's the old Court House in Devizes and, regrettably, it's in ... | 2010-05-04
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| 2713 | History is all around us
Some images from the last few days - all taken close to home in Melksham (some very close indeed!) ...
Woolmore House at Bowerhill on the Melksham to Devizes Road was built by George Hulbert in 1631. It is believed to have been built to a plan of Inigo Jones. [source]. Also [here].
Erected in 1838 ... | 2010-04-09
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| 2594 | Melksham Area - your community view is sought
Today was a very public consultation in the Town Hall in Melksham, where the Community area partnership (who's role is to gather and promote the views and aspirations of the Melksham area community) held "Open House" on the core strategy. Newly set up, with a first meeting last December, the Melksham ... | 2010-01-23
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| 2288 | Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships
A few days ago, I wrote about all the new structures at Wiltshire Council; I was having trouble working out what they all did, and I don't think I am the only one having trouble understanding it. (See that article). I got stuck at "Community Partnerships" or "Community Area Partnerships" which seemed ... | 2009-12-19
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| 2411 | Further North - long summer days and lovely countryside
I live further north than the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan at 50°37' [Latitude]. And much further north than Ottawa, where I was cautioned against walking 400 yards to a restaurant in deep winter because of the bitter cold. Ottawa is at 45°24'. Where I live is 51°32' North.
Living so ... | 2009-09-21
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| 1859 | Wiltshire at dawn - the tourist trail
With the clocks going back at the weekend, it's no longer possible for us to show delegates on our courses some of the lovely Wiltshire countryside after we're done with training for the day. Which is a great shame when there are lovely places like Lacock Abbey around. So this morning ... we went ... | 2009-08-31
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| 2279 | Understanding the new local government structure in Wiltshire
Government is bound to be complex, but I have this uneasy feeling that two layers of local government that I didn't understand have been replaced by one layer (and a sub-layer) that are almost as complex ... and which I think Joe Public still may not understand.
You can download this diagram (full ... | 2009-07-15
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| 2176 | Balloon Journey in Wiltshire
Three years ago, just before we opened Well House Manor, Lisa and I watches as the Triumph Balloon took off from the Green in Devizes ... and on Sunday night we watched that same balloon land in the field behind our house.
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| 2128 | Wiltshire - where everybody matters
On 1st April, Wiltshire went Unitary, combining four district councils and a county into a single unitary authority with a population a shade under 450,000. And from buildings to dust carts, the labels and logos have changed:
"Wiltshire - Where Everybody Matters" ... and I'm very glad to have that ... | 2009-04-17
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| 1981 | Bitter cold
It's bitterly cold here in Wiltshire at the moment (and the "Global Warming folks are hibernating, it seems!), but how to express that in pictures? A slight sprinkling of snow, ice on the driveway gives something of a clue:
In words, I can tell you of feeling cold (that's unusual for me!) and of ... | 2009-01-07
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| 1112 | Bank Holiday country breaks in Melksham, Wiltshire
Had a busy few months since Christmas? Fancy a relaxing long weekend break in one of the most beautiful counties in Southern England, staying in a luxury room in a quiet private hotel?
Regular readers and delegates on our courses may already have read a lot about Well House Manor in Melksham, but ... | 2008-12-26
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| 1106 | Spring Pictures
A lovely day today ... and a first opportunity this spring to go out and take some local pictures. Can you place any of them?
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Answers follow .... stop scrolling if you want to maintain the mystery for a minute.
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No. 4 is ... Prior ... | 2008-12-26
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| 1521 | Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire
A crisp winter's day ... and a shopping trip to Swindon. A late afternoon drive back over the Marlborough Downs.
In Devizes, the pond by the green - the Crammer - shimmered as the light went down, with trees silhouetted against the sky.
Caen Hill Locks on the canal run through the town, and as ... | 2008-01-26
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| 1428 | Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
What better way to learn about efficient public transport than to play a game to get you around from one place to another? And what better way to generate a new Tk canvas example, and a new PHP page too, than to prepare such a game on our web site.
The board looks like this:
If you select this link ... | 2007-11-13
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| 1156 | Two by One by Wiltshire
Four pictures of Wiltshire at a 2:1 aspect ratio ... all taken in the last few days.
Trowbridge, Marlborough Downs, Devizes and Kingsdown Golf Club
We love in a lovely county. No hotel availability for the Mayday bank holiday Friday, but if you fancy a long weekend in this lovely area we have ... | 2007-04-20
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| 1129 | Golfing, Wiltshire (near Melksham)
With some of the loveliest countryside in Southern England, where better to enjoy a short golfing break than in Wiltshire. Choose between courses as contrasting as the North Wilts Golf club on the flank of the Marlborough Downs and the more gentle Lafarge course at Westbury, nestling under the White ... | 2007-04-17
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| 971 | Wiltshire letterboxes
I've been updating our Wiltshire pages overnight, taking the big OPEN SOURCE TRAINING banners off the top so that we can make the pages of more general interest to all our hotel guests.
What to replace the banner by? I started off looking for 740 x 87 pixel images and concluded, rapidly, that that ... | 2006-12-07
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| 946 | Look around this mouth.
What have these in common? Alton Barnes, Cherhill, Devizes, Hackpen Hill, Marlborough, Uffington, Westbury and York. Need another clue? Add Cerne Abbas, Dunstable and Fovant in the same genre.
And there's another clue in the title.
You've probably got it quite quickly .... and here are some links ... | 2006-11-26
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| 942 | Index of Pictures
Over the last year or so, we've accumulated a very large number of pictures on this site and in the last 6 months or so they've gradually found their way into the MySQL database of images that we have in the background. With some 1000 of the 1500 being labelled up with descriptors, why not make them ... | 2006-11-24
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| 829 | Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham
I often thought of writing a book "within about an hour", describing some of the places to go and see within about an hour of where I live - indeed, that's much of the inspiration for the data on our share pages system which starts you at Melksham
Truth be known - it dosen't need to be "within an hour" ... | 2006-08-12
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