Stratford sub Castle Village Website
Salisbury, Wiltshire UK

The main purpose of our cafés is to provide the opportunity to get together for a chat and, especially for new residents, to get to know their neighbours, so we do hope that you will join us at our July café, which will be open from 2.30pm until 4.30pm, in the Reading Room, Stratford Road SP1 3LL (opposite St Lawrence Church). Also, we are always happy for new volunteers (male & female) to join us and help at the cafés, therefore, if you would like more information about wha

What a great start to our summer season with a fantastic turnout for our May café and record-breaking proceeds of £635 being donated to Wilton Riding for the Disabled. Thank you so much to everyone who came along to support us. We do hope that you will join us again between 2.30pm and 4.30pm for our Sunday 7 June café at the Reading Room (opposite St Lawrence Church) where there is ample car and bicycle parking. If the weather is kind to us, you can take advantage of sittin

UPDATE: What a great start to our summer season with a fantastic turnout for our May café and record-breaking proceeds of £635 being donated to Wilton Riding for the Disabled. Thank you so much to everyone who came along to support us. Photos taken at the May Café are here: https://www.stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/cafe-photos-2026 Did you read that the May café inspired an 'Ode to Mary King'? It's in this newspost: https://www.stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/newspost/ode-to-mary

Reading Room at Stratford-sub-Castle If Mary King could pause from tatting lace, As in her photograph, and through the glass Her gaze extend, we’d see across her face Benevolence and joy and pride to pass, For glancing through that pond’s mutating skin Called time, she’d see and hear her Reading Room Replete with hum of chat and wagging chin, The warp and weft of conversation’s loom, A modern version of the Sunday Teas, Victoria Sponge and jam and scones and all, A scene of a