Living or planning a holiday to the UK? Discover everything you need to know about visiting Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with The Raven as your guide.
Beating the Bounds in Ramsbury 50th Anniversary – Sunday 5th May 2019 The annual Boundary Walk is Ramsbury and Axford’s modern version of the ancient parish custom of “Beating the Bounds”. Originally based on the need for inhabitants to appreciate the lie of the land before the days of maps, Beating the Bounds was a …
Award Winning Best Village in Wiltshire We all think Ramsbury is a rather special place but we’ve had a dig around in the local archives and found the proof! Ramsbury first won Best Large Village in Wiltshire way back in 1961, then AGAIN in 1971, 1972, 1982 and 1986 (so we must have won Best …
Ashdown House A country house with beautiful woodlands and bursting with history Where the English counties of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire meet, you’ll find a life-size dolls house hidden away in the woods. Ashdown House boasts a beautifully carved 17th-century oak staircase, medieval hunting trophies, stunning roof top views, sarsen stones and ancient woodlands for …
Family Days Out – Avebury Rocks Avebury World Heritage Site is a complex of intriguing prehistoric monuments comprising Windmill Hill burial mounds, Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Avebury Stone Circles – the remains of the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world! A few tips for visiting Avebury 1) The easiest …
Sir Bevill Grenville’s Monument and the Battle of Lansdown 1643 Always driving past it, never actually stopping, until today. The monument stands just north of Bath on the spot where Sir Bevill, a Royalist commander from Cornwall, was killed at the Battle of Lansdown in July 1643. This cool monument was built in 1720 and …
Family Days Out: Farleigh Hungerford Castle In less than an hours drive from Ramsbury you’ll find the romantic ruins of Farleigh Hungerford castle. The castle stands just to the south of Bath in the rolling Somerset hills. The castle was first built around 1380 by Sir Thomas Hungerford, a speaker of the House of Commons …
The Ghost Village of Imber “Little Imber on the down, seven miles from any town” The remote settlement of Imber dates from at least Saxon times but is now an uninhabited “ghost village” within the MoD’s training grounds on Salisbury Plain. Traditionally reliant on agriculture, the townsfolk were evicted in December 1943 by the British …
Maud Heath’s Causeway 2½ miles / 1 hour OS Explorer 156 (Chippenham/Bradford) Interesting Wiltshire walks further afield this time – but well worth it for views and local interest. Start in Bremhill village itself (SN11 9LD) or at the nearby Dumb Post Inn (SN11 9JZ. Either way, make for St Martin’s Church (from the pub, …
Welcome to Ramsbury Ramsbury in Wiltshire UK is a real taste of the country (imagine thick forests, green meadows, rolling hills and chalk streams – it’s like Hobbit country for real!), it’s nestled within Wiltshire’s finest landscapes yet just a few miles from Marlborough, Hungerford and the M4. Here you’ll find inspiring history, glorious fresh …
Snap: Exploring England’s Lost Villages For several hundred years Snap was an outlying hamlet of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, its few inhabitants (never more than 40-50) eking out a precarious existence as agricultural labourers. 19th century changes in farming practice led to gradual depopulation and in 1905 Snap Farm and next-door Leigh Farm (now, confusingly, known …
