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There have been a series of posters at the railway stations which have been a bit odd1, but I quite like this one, advertising day-trips to Stonehenge. If you came to this page looking for how to get to Stonehenge then it might be worth looking at my page on getting from Salisbury to . . . → Read More: Stonehenge – How did they get there? Marina Road is to the south east of Salisbury. It leads off from Tollgate Road down towards the college. The derivation of the name ‘Marina Road’ is a bit of a puzzle. I can’t see any clear reason for the name. Is Marina Road’s name related to Saint Martin’s? One possibility is that it is . . . → Read More: Marina Road, Salisbury I like this purple dragon from the Saint George stained glass window in St Thomas’ Church. He looks as if he’s just biding his time to me, believing that he’s going to get the last laugh in the end. . . . → Read More: Dragon from Saint Thomas’ Church The Market Place in Salisbury is in the centre of town. Market Walk is the covered passage that runs alongside the library from the Maltings to the Market Place. The ‘Charter Market’ King Henry III granted the right to hold a market in Salisbury in the city’s charter of 1227. However, the Salisbury . . . → Read More: Market Place and Market Walk, Salisbury There are a couple of Salisbury blogs that I really like. The first is Salisbury Daily Photo. Salisbury Daily Photo is one of a growing number of ‘daily photo’ blogs – the author takes and publishes pictures of their home city. It’s not dissimilar in theme to the stuff I’ve published on this website . . . → Read More: Two great Salisbury blogs Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith. The Market Place, in the centre of Wilton, could be said to date from ‘time immemorial’. Edward I (king from 1272 until 1307) referred to a charter for a market in Wilton having been granted by his ‘ancestors’. (1) The market was a significant part of the economy . . . → Read More: Market Place, Wilton This building, on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street achieved some notoriety when Bill Bryson criticized it in his book Notes from a Small Island. He says: In the centre of town, there stood a small building occupied by Lunn Poly travel agency. Upstairs the structure was half-timbered and quietly glorious, . . . → Read More: Lunn Poly, now Fone Solutions |
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