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Lunar Eclipse 7 September 2025
This was the scene on Old Sarum at 7.30 pm last evening. Around 50 people (not all in this shot) gazed eastwards from the outer bailey of...
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2 days ago


Local Road Closures September 2025
'Urgent tree safety works' require the closure of the Durnford Road between 8-12 September. A beech tree lost a large limb after a...
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3 days ago


Salisbury Neighbourhood Policing Team
The Salisbury Neighbourhood Policing Team will be visiting local communities with the mobile police station. This is an opportunity to...
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4 days ago


Church clock - an update
The clock is working again and the hour hand on the dial will display a reasonably accurate indication of the time. However, the clock is...
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Aug 31


Test of the Emergency Alert msg to Mobile phone & tablet users
The Government will be testing the 'Emergency Alert' system on Sunday 7 September at 3 pm. This 'test' will be in the form of a...
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Aug 30


Temporary Traffic Lights removed from Chancellor's Farm
The traffic lights were removed today. News from 10 August Temporary traffic lights are operating on Stratford Road from Chancellors Farm...
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Aug 30


FOSL fundraising talk by Tobias Ellwood Friday 24 October
The Friends of St Lawrence next fundraising talk will be on Friday 24 October at 7.30 pm in the Reading Room, Stratford Road SP1 3LL,...
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Aug 28


'Wellbeing Walks' Sept-Dec 2025 from Five Rivers Centre & Victoria Park,
The programme for two grades of local guided walks - Footsteps to Fitness and Doorstep Walks - with dates from September to December...
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Aug 28


Treasure Trail at the River Park - Monday 25 August until 31 August
A fully accessible one mile Treasure Trail suitable for all ages will run from Monday 25 August through to Sunday 31 August. It coincides...
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Aug 25


Stratford Summer Café - Sunday 7 September
The weather may have been against us for our August café but the people weren’t! We were delighted to have so many customers (including...
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Aug 24


Stratford Garden Club's new season begins Thursday 25 September
Our first meeting of the new season is on Thursday 25 September 7.15 for 7.30pm. The speaker at that meeting will be Michael Bowyer, his...
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Aug 11


Utilities queueing up to work on and around Stratford Road
Southern Gas Networks are still in Stratford with temporary traffic lights* near Chancellor's Farm and equipment and spoil heaps...
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Aug 10


Air Quality Monitoring Device installed at Stratford School
An air quality monitor was recently installed at the primary school. The monitor was provided by the Wiltshire Community Air Network as...
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Aug 9


Stratford Guild's New Season begins Wednesday 10 September
The Guild's 2025-26 season begins on Wednesday 10 September at 7.30 pm in the Reading Room, with a talk by Colin van Geffen entitled...
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Aug 8


Four egrets spotted near Mill Lane bridge but no photos - yet
The website has received a heads-up from local resident David Mills that four Little Egret were seen perched in the tree of a garden...
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Aug 6


Stratford Garden Club - end of season
In June we held the AGM of the above Club and I am delighted to say that it was a very successful evening! The current Committee will...
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Aug 1


Clearing & cleaning by Wiltshire Council
Wiltshire Council's yellow 'Parish Steward' vans appear to be visiting our area more frequently. The purpose of a visit today was to cut...
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Jul 31


Wiltshire Libraries free Home Library Service
If you (or someone you know) can’t visit the library due to health, mobility or access issues, Wiltshire Libraries can bring the books to...
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Jul 28


St Lawrence Patronal Festival
As the congregation prepares to commemorate the St Lawrence Patronal Festival on Sunday 27 July, the colours of the flowers decorating...
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Jul 26


University of Southampton Archaeology department set to return to Old Sarum
Students and staff from the University of Southampton will be around Old Sarum and Stratford sub Castle for the next two weeks, using GPR...
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Jul 23


Speed Awareness sign nr Hudson's Field
A 'Your Speed' sign has been fixed to a lampost on Stratford Road, near Hudson's Field. It is not a 'Speed Camera'. Typically, these...
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Jul 23


Stratford Summer Sunday Café 3 August 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
For our July café the sun peeped through now and again and the threatening rain held off, which meant we had a lively, busy café with...
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Jul 19


New Mobile Library vehicles to serve parts of Wiltshire (but not Stratford)
Wiltshire Council has released news of two new Library vans that will replace two of the three vehicles currently in use in Wiltshire. ...
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Jul 7


Weekend of activity at Little Durnford Manor 12/13 July
Just beyond the boundaries of Stratford sub Castle, Little Durnford Manor is the venue for a weekend of events. On Saturday 12 July...
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Jul 7
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