Stratford sub Castle Village Website
Salisbury, Wiltshire UK

As this sign has still not been repaired, a request for a review/update has been submitted using the MyWiltshire app. 17 March 2025. Our Wiltshire Councillor, Dr Mark McClelland, has been requested to enquire why this sign has still not been replaced. Image taken 4 March 2023 15 January 2025 Will this will be third-time-lucky? ANOTHER report has been submitted to Wiltshire Council via the MyWiltshire app as this sign pointing to the Woodford Valley and the 45 National Cyclew

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 29 January 2026 in the Reading Room, Stratford Road SP1 3LL at 7.30pm. The speaker will be Ray Broughton – his topic is “Seed sowing and propagation”. Ray is a highly qualified horticulturist, teacher, lecturer and examiner. He was Head of Horticulture at Sparsholt College and taught horticulture for over 40 years. He has visited the Garden Club before and is remembered for his amusing talks. Membership of the Garden Club is £18.00 per

A streetlight on Stratford Road near Russell House is not working and has been reported to Wiltshire Council using the MyWiltshire app. Newspost from 19 December 2024 Please report a non-working streetlight to Wiltshire Council. to make our local roads and pavements safer at night. That is exactly what Jim Platt did this week. As he returned home from Bell Ringing Practice on a dark December evening, Jim noticed that a couple of street lights along Stratford Road weren't wor

Repairs have recently been made to the footpath near Mill Lane pedestrian bridge. A request for an improvement was made in April 2024 using the MyWiltshire app. The path had sunk in places and groundwater was not draining away, making the path impassable at times. November 2025 April 2024 February 2024 Newspost from 9 April 2024 Footpath to the Mill Lane pedestrian bridge - the water level on the footpath

The latest applications for the Salisbury - St Francis & Stratford Ward - have been downloaded from Wiltshire Council and are available to view in the Local Information section of the village website: Local Information - Planning applications The search date was 26 November 2025.

There's no need to go out on a dark winter's evening for the Guild's January talk as the meeting will be held on Thursday 15 January at 2 pm in the Reading Room . The talk 'Local Disaster Management and Recovery' will be presented by Chris Manuel, the Community Resilience Lead Officer for Wiltshire & Swindon Prepared , the public facing side of Wiltshire & Swindon Local Resilience Forum (LRF), which is a multi-agency partnership established to plan and prepare for emergencie

Image of sighting at Langford Lakes on 19 November 2025 (Facebook) Langford Lakes, managed by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, is only 9 miles away from Stratford sub Castle. The website is still hoping for evidence of a sighting of a WTE in Stratford sub Castle! Earlier Newspost 9 November Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve where this image was taken on 8 November, is 17 miles south of Salisbury. See ** below in respect of the reference to the lesser black backed gull. Image: Jeremy

Between April and Septpember 2025, Action fraud received 2,790 crime reports relating to Winter Fuel Payment scams, with victims reporting losses totalling over £27,000 Winter Fuel payments will be made automatically, they do not have to be claimed. If you receive any text messages about Winter Fuel Payments, - it's a SCAM! Not sure if a message is real? This applies to any suspicious txt msg How to check/report Contact the organisation directly using the contact details on

Stratford sub Castle Lunchtime Christmas Café Special Saturday 6th December 2025 11.00am to 2.00pm In the Reading Room   Come along and join in the festive atmosphere at this year’s Christmas Café Special. Everyone is welcome, the more the merrier.   The doors will open at 11.00am for morning coffee and from 12 noon we will be offering a choice of fabulous homemade soups and bread, as well as homemade savoury cheese scones with cheese, grapes and chutney. Mulled Wine, beverag

Brilliant Mini Beasts - Speaker Juliet ten Doeschate A fascinating introduction to the amazing and intriguing world of invertebrates including wasps, butterflies, ladybirds, flies and many more. Some are very familiar and common visitors to our gardens, but others are so tiny (a mere 3mm) and so well hidden that we are not aware of them. Juliet concentrated principally upon those which inhabit her garden of 2 acres which is half woodland and half garden. Many are parasitic fe

A high resolution map of Roman roads throughout the Empire was published earlier this week: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z .   The map is open access at https://itiner-e.org/ It doesn’t really add to our knowledge locally, the lost portion of the road to the Mendips from Old Sarum (Sorbiodunum) remains lost. It is tempting to draw a straight line across the gap but as this route rises and falls across two valleys, and carts travelling it carried lead, th

Join us for our meeting on Thursday 27 November 7.15 pm for 7.30 pm. Our speaker will be Roger HIrons “Plants introduced in the Victorian era and some Victorian gardening techniques”. Roger Hirons is “The Plant Doctor”. He trained at Pershore College and comes with a wealth of knowledge. He has worked in nurseries, run garden centres and has his own garden design and landscaping business. He is also a published author. New members and visitors are always welcome. Membership o

22 October 2025 - Fisherton Rec The River Park October Newsletter describes the work currently planned. Yesterday a new footpath across Fisherton Rec was nearing completion. At the moment the project's website is not available to view but a copy of the Newsletter has kindly been provided by Andy Wallis, (Salisbury River Park Project Lead) and can be downloaded below. page 1 of the PDF document - click the PDF download button above to view all 5 pages.

The Louve has now listed the jewels stolen and the crown of Empress Eugenie was lifted but damaged and left behind. Le Parisien has confirmed the Regent Diamond (before 1717, the Pitt Diamond) has NOT been stolen. Previous News Thieves broke into Paris's Louvre museum at about 09:30 local time this morning, gaining access to the Gallery of Apollo on the south side. The Louvre have not revealed which gems were stolen but the most precious items kept there were the Regent, Sat

A talk 'The Sarum Master Bible' by Dr Christopher de Hamel will take place at Salisbury Cathedral on 20 October at 7.30 pm (doors open at 7pm). There will not be a charge for the talk but tickets must be booked in advance due to limited capacity - details are on the cathedral's website. Our earlier newspost followed the fundraising campaign to enable the purchase of this rare 13th century Bible so that it might be returned to Salisbury Cathedral. The campaign was successful

Wessex Water are replacing the water meter at the Reading Room. There are no traffic lights to control traffic past the obstruction, and the pavement has limited access.

The surface on the cycle path near Ashley Road has been removed and will be replaced by a non-skid surface. News from 27 September The image above left, taken on Saturday 27 September, shows the crossing back in operation. Cyclists now have priority over motorists at this point, and do not legally have to dismount. There have been fears expressed on social media of the risks of cyclists not stopping and/or motorists being unaware of their presence/the priority change. Furthe

After repeated reports to Wiltshire Council, in October 2025 the sign was eventually replaced, having been removed from its post in January 2024. (To remove any doubt that was not a typo.) News from 7 May 2025 Image 5 January 2024 KMOC 16 March 2024 As reported on 5 January 2024 , the 'No entry except for Access' sign at the junction of Gradidge Lane and Phillips Lane had been damaged and it was hoped that it was simply a matter of fitting new brackets to re-install the sig