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Fowler’s Hill and Fowler’s Road, Salisbury 27 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm
Fowler’s Hill is on the eastern edge of Salisbury It runs more or less parallel with Milford Hill, from Tollgate Road to the top of Shady Bower. Fowler’s Road joins Milford Hill and Fowler’s Hill. F...
Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2013 10 Jun 2013 | 12:18 pm
Summer Solstice is celebrated at Stonehenge this year on Friday the 21st June. The sun is due to rise at 4.52 am, but you can get into the site from 19.00 on the previous evening English Heritage have...
Fugglestone and Fugglestone Red 2 Jun 2013 | 09:13 pm
As far as I’m aware there isn’t a road called ‘Fugglestone’ in the Salisbury area. There’s not a ‘Fugglestone Close’ or a ‘Fugglestone Street’, but I’m including it in this list of Salisbury road name...
We are going up! 13 May 2013 | 12:53 pm
Some very shoddy mobile phone photos from yesterday’s match. I didn’t think to take a ‘proper’ camera, so these are all from my phone. There was a big crowd, making lost of noise[1]. Quite a lot came ...
Fulford Place, Salisbury 4 May 2013 | 09:13 pm
As far as I’m aware Fulford Place no longer exists. It was a small ‘court’ off of Castle Street. Salisbury’s courts were groups of houses clustered around a central yard. They were criticized as unhea...
@sarum_matt – Tweeting about this day in Salisbury’s history 1 May 2013 | 09:22 pm
I’ve set up an experimental twitter account to accompany this website called @sarum_matt. The ‘sarum_matt’ account tweets notable or interesting[1] stuff that’s happened ‘on this day’ in Salisbury his...
Gee! …another letter finished 16 Mar 2013 | 03:50 pm
Gainsborough Close, Salisbury – probably named after the painter Gainsborough, who came to Wilton to see the dressage horses Gawthorne Drive, Harnham – named after the first Captain on Salisbury Fire ...
Lady Hulse and Rudyard Kipling 9 Mar 2013 | 08:48 pm
This post is about a sad letter that I found from the writer Rudyard Kipling[1] to Lady Edith Hulse, of Breamore House. I was ‘researching’ Lady Hulse for a Twitter account[2] I’ve set up called @saru...
Gas Lane, Salisbury 23 Feb 2013 | 05:54 pm
Gas Lane was named after the Salisbury gasworks, obviously enough. The Salisbury Gas Light and Coke Company[1] was founded in 1832, with the Earl of Radnor as chairman[2]. The Salisbury Gas Works was ...
Full Program for Shafestbury Snowdrops 8 Feb 2013 | 01:23 pm
One of the organisers of the Shaftesbury Snowdrops festival kindly sent me a copy of their full program. It looks like a really good event. If you click on the link below it should download the origin...
