by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Review
I’ve always enjoyed visiting parish churches while travelling around the UK and having spent 35 years working in Church of England primary schools, there was always a parish church attached which was visited frequently by the pupils and staff. Wiltshire itself has...
by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Editorial
If it’s not too late, welcome to 2017 and the Society’s full programme, as shown on the back page of this edition. For the first time, in a number of years, we had a Society talk at the Pound Arts Centre in January, moving the annual lunch to February 24th,...
by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Editorial
It’s Thursday afternoon, February 9th and I have just returned from a most interesting and informative visit to our ‘Spotlight’ magazine printers, Corsham Print. Chris Perry and David Kilmurray, the joint owners, took time out to explain how the printing business has...
by admin | Dec 11, 2016 | Events
Dr Bainbridge introduced her talk by setting the scene: the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is maintained by the National Archives and provides brief descriptions of the documents and details of their locations. She pointed out that Manor Courts are presumed to have...