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To my native village, there tomorrow morning to embark on a 35 mile walk to Winchester in aid of @DKMS_uk.
If you felt like sponsoring my niece Daisy, who will be accompanying @James1940, I would be inordinately grateful.
If you felt like sponsoring my niece Daisy, who will be accompanying @James1940, I would be inordinately grateful.
To Winchester! 
Dawn over the Chalke Valley…
The transmitter tower we can see from around the #avebury / #ridgeway area #wiltshire. It's actually located in the ground of what was #RAF Clyffe Pypard, from here are views looking out over the Ridgeway, Hackpen Hill, Cherhill & Furze Knoll
Clyffe Pypard - as well as being an ancient village situated on the White Horse trail between Broad Town & Cherhill (more of which I shall have to post) This here was a former satellite airfield used in between 1941 - 61. It is now farmland but a few things remain...
a subterranean HQ, 4 Mushroom pillarboxes, a machine gun range, a hanger + more, worth a respectful visit - for more info tinyurl.com/yckm87pw, a brief & interesting video - tinyurl.com/2p96ptju
For #HillfortsWednesday here’s the glorious Chlorus Camp (Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire, photographically captured by David R Abram 🤩
For more of his stunning work see davidabram.co.uk
And catch his exhibition @SalisburyMuseum salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…
A thread 👇👇👇
For more of his stunning work see davidabram.co.uk
And catch his exhibition @SalisburyMuseum salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…
A thread 👇👇👇
Figsbury Ring / Chlorus Camp #Wiltshire comprises a univallate Iron Age hillfort with entrances at the East and West
At 6.2ha it encloses a Neolithic / EBA feature (a henge?)
LiDAR Digital terrain model Rouven Meidlinger @planlaufterrain CC BY-SA 4.0
#HillfortsWednesday
At 6.2ha it encloses a Neolithic / EBA feature (a henge?)
LiDAR Digital terrain model Rouven Meidlinger @planlaufterrain CC BY-SA 4.0
#HillfortsWednesday
William Stukeley visited Chlorus Camp hillfort (Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire in 1723
His drawing of the hillfort and inner henge looking SW shows the hillfort and castle of @EHOldSarum (B) and cathedral of Salisbury (C) in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #HengeWednesday
His drawing of the hillfort and inner henge looking SW shows the hillfort and castle of @EHOldSarum (B) and cathedral of Salisbury (C) in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #HengeWednesday
This afternoons stroll starts in the Wiltshire village of Edington #Wiltshire
This is Ralph’s seat. I don’t know who Ralph is / was but it’s a nice spot view a view over Edington Priory @MyFaveBench
On the edge of the village I see a reminder of how many miles we are from London, before heading up Salisbury Hollow. A stretch of tarmac soon gives way to a steep gravel byway leading up to Salisbury Plain.
On 6th May, all 41 Police & Crime Commissioners in 🏴🏴 are up for election via Supplementary Vote System.
PCCs have significant influence but election turnout has been low.
In #Wiltshire only 25% voted in 2016, 15% in 2012. Wilts PCC has influence over 7 Parlt constituencies.
PCCs have significant influence but election turnout has been low.
In #Wiltshire only 25% voted in 2016, 15% in 2012. Wilts PCC has influence over 7 Parlt constituencies.
PCCs ensure community policing needs are met as effectively as possible and oversee how crime is tackled.
They are elected to hold 👮 force to account for delivering the kind of policing local people want to see.
Their aim is to cut crime and to ensure 👮 force is effective.
They are elected to hold 👮 force to account for delivering the kind of policing local people want to see.
Their aim is to cut crime and to ensure 👮 force is effective.
PCCs bring a public voice to policing by:
• engaging with the public and victims of crime to help set police and crime plans;
• ensuring the police force budget is spent where it matters most; and
• appointing, and where necessary dismissing, the chief constable.
• engaging with the public and victims of crime to help set police and crime plans;
• ensuring the police force budget is spent where it matters most; and
• appointing, and where necessary dismissing, the chief constable.
Figsbury Ring comprises a fine set of prehistoric enclosure systems on the chalk above Salisbury in #Wiltshire looked after by @nationaltrust @NatTrustArch
A short thread for #HillfortsWednesday
A short thread for #HillfortsWednesday
Figsbury Ring, once known as Chlorus Camp, #Wiltshire @NatTrustArch - The outer circuit encloses 6.2ha with entrances on the E and W
📷 Dae Sasitorn + Adrian Warren © Sasitorn Images
For more amazing images see: sasitornimages.com
#HillfortsWednesday
📷 Dae Sasitorn + Adrian Warren © Sasitorn Images
For more amazing images see: sasitornimages.com
#HillfortsWednesday
For many years, Figsbury Ring, depicted here in the Ordnance Survey for 1927 with the Roman road from Old Sarum to Winchester to the south, was thought to be a bivallate Iron Age hillfort...
...but there was something strange about the innermost circuit
#HillfortsWednesday
...but there was something strange about the innermost circuit
#HillfortsWednesday
The outline of Old Sarum Cathedral, completed in 1092. Its exposed setting at the summit of a Neolithic hill fort and lack of water supply gave it a short lifespan. By the 1200s it was being dismantled and its stone reused in building the present Salisbury Cathedral nearby.
Augustus felt these Old Sarum stones made a good statue plinth for him.
🏡Stone and block work going up on second floor. Love the quoin details now the lintels are in. Views great from bedrooms. Juliette balcony will be lovely in our bedroom 🏡 #OrchardHouse #SelfBuild #NewHouse #Housebuilding #wiltshire
🏡 Brickwork looking good and views spectacular in today’s sun. Shot of the insulation in the cavities too. 🏡 #OrchardHouse #SelfBuild #NewHouse #Housebuilding #wiltshire
🏡 after a couple of says in Devon, there’s been some more upwards movement on block work and stone work. Now have a gap for the naming stone as well 🏡 #OrchardHouse #SelfBuild #NewHouse #Housebuilding #wiltshire
.@realDonaldTrump, call off your summit with Putin. A British woman is dead of a horrific poisoning, linked to ex-spy #Skripal poisoning just months ago. #Putin is not fine. He's responsible for this and other murders. America doesn't need to make deals with murderers. #Wiltshire
@realDonaldTrump Sturgess murder by chemical weapon is yet another attack against NATO allies by Russia/Russian proxies approved and/or ordered by Putin. And election manipulation for Brexit and Trump. These facts alone warrant calling off Putin Summit. Imagine if a Muslim migrant had killed her.
@realDonaldTrump And this: Putin critic #Glushkov found strangled at his London home the day he was due in court in case against Russia's state-run airline Aeroflot
#Putin is not fine. #Russia under Putin is not fine. A summit now rewards & encourages a murderous regime.
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#Putin is not fine. #Russia under Putin is not fine. A summit now rewards & encourages a murderous regime.
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>> NEW INCIDENT near #Salisbury:: Two collapse in #Amesbury, UK—near site of Russian spy #Skripal poisoning by military grade chemical weapon - BBC News bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
#BREAKING: Police now say pair found unconscious in Wiltshire U.K. were poisoned with Novichok, same chemical nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei #Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, just 4 months ago bbc.co.uk/news/uk-447196… #Amesbury
BREAKING >> Following detailed analysis of samples, British counter-terrorism police confirm unconscious man & woman in #Amesbury have been exposed to the nerve agent #Novichok—the same nerve agent that poisoned Yulia & Sergei #Skripal #Russia #Wiltshire
Our #Bristol ride will see hundreds of bikers ride through the city to @CHSW Charlton Farm helping to raise vital funds. All bikers welcome!
Bikes gather for the main ride at midday ready for a 1pm departure. Groups will be riding in from #Wiltshire, #Somerset and #Gloucestershire
All bikes, trikes and scooters are welcome. No need to register, just turn up on the day. No charge, but all donations to @CHSW appreciated!
