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Arundells Plaque For Sir Edward Heath The Civic Society has unveiled a plaque commemorating Ted Heath. Salisbury Civic Society I was interested to read that Salisbury Cathedral objected to plans to re-open Arundells: BBC News – Row over reopening of Sir Edward Heath’s home Arundells New Salisbury website My Twitter friend Andy Watts, has launched . . . → Read More: Salisbury News: Arundells, Fairtrade, Whites DVD, TUC Book and Amnesty Garden 
Grasmere Close is in Harnham. It’s just off of the Old Blandford Road. ‘Grasmere’ is an interesting name. Fairly close by, 100 yards or so down Harnham Road is the ‘Grasmere House Hotel’. Grasmere is also a village in the Lake District, famous because the poet William Wordsworth lived there. The ‘Visit . . . → Read More: Grasmere Close, Harnham 
The road name ‘Great Western Terrace’ no longer exists. The road is now called Windsor Road. The road name is a reference to the Great Western Railway, which ran from Salisbury to Bath and Bristol. The road mirrors the still existing South Western Road, which is named after the operator of the line from Salisbury . . . → Read More: Great Western Terrace, Salisbury 
Interview with ex-Salisbury FC Matt Tubbs A video interview with ex-White Matt Tubbs, who was recently at Crawley and now plays at Bournemouth. Salisbury City Football Club » Video: Matt Tubbs interview Help for Wiltshire low-scoring food businesses A follow on from the Scores on the Doors initiative that was reported in the . . . → Read More: Salisbury News: Eco-park grant, Easter, Tubbs, Walk for Wards and Arundells 
Greencroft Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from Bourne Hill, opposite the Council House to Winchester Street. It’s called ‘Greencroft Street’ because for about half its length it runs along the western edge of the Greencroft itself. Greencroft Street was originally called Melemonger Street. A ‘melemonger’ was a ‘seller of meal’1 It . . . → Read More: Greencroft Street, Salisbury 
The Closed Lines of Britain: Wiltshire Jeffrey Grayer has a new book in the series ‘The Closed Lines of Britain’ – this one on the lost railways of Wilshire. I’m sure this will be available from my favourite bookshop – the Crosskeys Bookshop in the Crosskeys Shopping Centre in Salisbury. Otherwise you can buy it . . . → Read More: Salisbury News: Plain English, Salisbury ‘Oyster’, Ted Heath and Lost Railways of Wiltshire 
A quick post to celebrate the anniversary of the writer’s birth. Despite having had 200 years notice of the anniversary, I only just thought it might be worth cobbling together a piece on Dickens’ Salisbury connections. Salisbury in Martin Chuzzlewit The most significant thing to point out about Dickens and Salisbury is the . . . → Read More: Dickens and Salisbury 
This page will be re-written since I’ve been sent some great information and two wonderful images by Local Salisbury artist David Stooke There have been two paths known as ‘Green Lane’ in the Salisbury area. One links Bishopdown to to the Portway, running through Ford. The Bishopdown Green Lane is covered in the previous . . . → Read More: Green Lane, Odstock 
Salisbury Race For Life entry opened Registration is now open for the 2012 Race for Life which is on July 1st. Spire FM – News – Salisbury Race For Life entries opened Audit of Wiltshire’s War Memorials I heard an interesting radio programme a few months ago about auditing war memorials. The gist was that . . . → Read More: Salisbury, England News: Museum grant, Race for Life, Coward at the Playhouse and Desert Island Salisbury |
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