Here is our Property Buying Guide for Ramsbury Ramsbury is a large village in the Kennet Valley surrounded by the North Wessex downs, designated an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (ANOB). The popular village of Ramsbury has many amenities including various shops, pubs, a doctors surgery, a primary school graded by Ofsted as Outstanding and …
WATCH: Hustings in Marlborough at St Mary’s hosted by Marlborough Churches Together Missed the big Husting in Marlborough? Devizes constituency Marlborough Husting for the election on Thursday 12 December 2019. Here we have the full one hour and forty minute recording of the Q&A between candidates and a local audience – watch the entire session …
British potter Peter Holdsworth 1919 – 1967 Ramsbury Pottery The Ramsbury Pottery was founded in 1945 by Peter Holdsworth who ran it until his death in 1967, his widow Kathy continuing the business for a further 10 years afterwards. Peter’s pottery was in the “English Studio” tradition championed by Bernard Leach. He studied ceramics and pottery …
The Ramsbury Street Fair Once upon a time, Ramsbury was prestigious enough to host 2 annual fairs – even Marlborough had to accommodate Ramsbury’s Michaelmas Fair by holding its Mop Fairs on the Saturdays before and after. Ramsbury’s Spring Cattle Fair finally ceased in 1939 and the Michaelmas Fair in the 1950s. An annual carnival …
Fifty Years of Beating The Bounds The Boundary Walk took place last week with a twist to celebrate its 50th anniversary in its modern format. On a glorious May Bank Holiday weekend, walkers of all ages were up with the birds for Ramsbury and Axford’s annual 23 mile ‘beating the bounds’ walk around the parish …
Ramsbury Kids Hill Climb Race and Beating the Bounds The Ramsbury Boundary Walk 50th Anniversary Kids Hill Climb Race up the newly named ‘Harker’s Hill’.
Ferocious Fathers of the River Kennet – Sticklebacks In nearly every natural pond and stream across the UK – especially the River Kennet which is the perfect stickleback habitat, you will find numbers of these tiny fishes called. They have a sort of pet name, too, for many children (and grown-ups) call them Tiddlers. If …
When you go for walks in the countryside around Ramsbury you’re sure to find the River Kennet sooner or later and at first sight you think it is just a stream or hole full of rather muddy water. Perhaps the stretch of the Kennett is large enough for a boat or clear enough to swim …
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 …
Internationally renowned artist to move in next door by our April Arts Correspondent, Kanye Beleavit The Raven can exclusively reveal that plans for a major art foundation at Ramsbury Manor have been a front for a Banksy installation which will see derelict police vans in the Lake and giant pink flamingos on the lawn. Operating …
