My last couple of posts have involved YouTube videos where I provide a commentary on some PowerPoint presentations on the history of the local area. If I'm honest, I was a bit embarrassed by the quality of my speech, with a lot of ums and ahs and errs,
In this presentation I discuss some conjectures about the lay out of Lodge Park 100 years before Bridgeman arrived on the scene.
A new venture for the Sherborne Brook Support Group's blog this evening, and this is a video hosted by YouTube that you can connect to from the link below. Earlier today, the Sherborne Archives hosted an exhibition in the village, in the Sherborne Village Club, focused on the
Tonight as it begins to get dark, step outside and listen to the wild settle for the night. The sky fades and the blackbirds mark their perch for the night. Chink, Chink, Chink. It’s a version of their alarm call, but steady and insistent. “I’m here I’m
Next Wednesday , 27 May is the date of the annual Parish meeting. It's at 7 p.m. in the village club. This meeting is important. It's the chance for the entire village to get together to discuss what's important to us and see what
My work with geographic information systems has an interesting spin-off. Above is an annotated map where I've collected place names from a gentleman in the village who's lived here an awful lot longer than I have. Some of the older names of places in the village
Here's a curiosity. This is an image, a LiDAR image of Lodge Park. Towards the top left, you've got the Long Barrow with the much smaller Round Barrow just about 80 m from it along the Winter Solstice. And the grandstand is in that peculiar shape,
One of my recent posts, a somewhat philosophical approach to a local standing stone, seems to have captured people's imagination. I was talking to the Northleach Local History Society last week, and I mentioned the number of standing stones that exist between Northleach and Sherborne. This seemed to
Good news on the Ancestor Oaks. Those planted out around the village in late March are all looking healthy, with leaves well established and no particular dramas to report. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to this project over the years. Two developments to look forward to. This summer
I've written recently about a number of possible Roman sites, maybe even including villas in four or five locations within Sherborne. It turns out that these are not all new discoveries. In 1887, Lord Sherborne was appointed the president of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. He was
In a great and innovative step, there's going to be a village cricket match on Sunday the 28th of June, starting at about 2:00pm. The organisers, Ed Richardson and Jonathan Benson, are looking to put two teams together. If you are the demon fast bowler of the
Rosi has asked me to circulate this: