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Image taken near Mill Lane in 2019 - see * below Sadly it's goodbye to the swallows in the stables for this year. Following a mass gathering on the telephone wires in Shelley Drive on 6 September, all was quiet in the stables and skies at the farm and we realised they had left us. (Perhaps they were taking advantage of the fine weather to cross the Channel.) Their departure is very early this year compared to previous years but I have seen that this is not an indicator of wha

At the Evensong service at Salisbury Cathedral this evening, Revd Sarah Wood-Roe, formerly Associate Priest at St Lawrence Church...

Our first meeting of the new season will be on Thursday 28 September at 7.30pm in the Reading Room SP1 3LL. The speaker for this month is...

The Parsonage Farm swallows are still around. This morning some of them have been exploring the thatched roof of Old Sarum View, perhaps a source for flies and insects. There has also been increased 'gathering' activity as small flocks of swallows line up on the telephone wires for a few seconds before being joined by others (up to twenty at one stage). One bird then flies off with the others following, swooping above their 'homes' at the stables, and around the surrounding f

“Sort it before you bring it” – help us recycle as much as possible at our household recycling centres. First, we asked you to help sort...

As announced by the BBC this morning, 3,600 aerial photos taken by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Photographic Reconnaissance units in...

Updated news from the Old Sarum Landscapes Project team Today Dr Kris Strutt posted an update on X (formerly known as Twitter), about the...

I started my last update on the swallows by saying "Really good news on this front." I can begin this one by saying "Even better news this time!" as we now have four second broods. There is a live nest in each of the four stables, one with five, one with four chicks in and definitely chicks in the other two, but can't give numbers yet as the nests are in dark places. One chick fell out this afternoon but was carefully replaced with his siblings so we hope he's learnt his less

The Environment Agency has published its August Newsletter, providing images and a progress report on the works so far. SPOILER -...

Dutch Elm disease wrought havoc on elms in copses and woods. Survivors are often solitary trees in hedgerows that kept socially distanced...

In the mid 17thC Parliament set about selling off Crown and Church Lands. To do so they drew up surveys detailing buildings and lands....

The Club’s AGM and social evening was held on the 29th June and was well attended, with everyone contributing to making it a very...

Do you know where they are and what they communicate? The Sarsen Way image is a waymarker recently attached to the Rights of Way signpost...

A short video of the 5 chicks from stable one at Parsonage Farm, exploring the world outside their nest-site with an adult alongside. (Click the play button to play the video.)

Swallow chicks 22 June 2023 Janet Brownlie has provided an update on the Parsonage Farm Swallows. She writes: " Really good news on this front. We have three nests with chicks in and two other nests where we're fairly certain there are chicks but it's difficult to see because they're up in the eaves in the dark but definitely adult swallows are going in there. 5th chick at the back? In the first stable the nest has five chicks which have just fledged. The latest photo was t

This is my last report from the Garden Club as I am signing off after eight years. When I became Chairman in Sept 2015 I started writing...

This news was updated on 7 September 2023. VIEW THE UPDATE The Revd Sarah Wood-Roe who is the Associate Priest for St Lawrence Church,...

This route was the subject of an Old Sarum Landscapes Project survey in 2019. Details here: https://www.stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/oslp-ro...

You will need to follow revised guidance to sort your recycling from now on, in readiness for the next kerbside collection from Stratford...

Update 25 May The chicks have fledged this morning. The first one to leave the nest box was caught on camera below. The parent bird's...

The website is delighted to include in its History section a reformatted version of 'A Long History Of Old Sarum' with the kind consent...

Images taken at this year's ANZAC Day service have been made available by the Australian Department of Defence. View them in a new photo...