The village of Seend provokes thoughts on the past and musings on the esoteric and other worlds. A place to look for pirates and storks.

A Flâneurse view of the ancient and beautiful area of Harnham. An area close to Salisbury with lots of history plus a relic of the Cold War

Just south of Tan Hill in the Vale of Pewsey is a place known as Rybury Camp. It is an ancient earthwork surrounding a flattened plateau...

Temple Bottom is seemingly the only connection Wiltshire has with the Knights Templar, but is there a link to the last Templar and treasure?

Hidden around Salisbury station is the lost settlement of Fisherton Anger a place of ghosts, witches and monsters.

There is a podcast to accompany this post that can be accessed here: Podcast Wiltshire is a very large, rural county. The population...

A Valentine's Day visit to the romantically named Lover, Bohemia and Paradise and the famous pop-up Post Office.

A walk around Great Durnford and the unusual hillfort of Ogbury and a curious brass memorial with hints of a murder.

When Glyn and I recorded the last podcast we agreed it would not be right to discuss the catastrophic events unfolding in Eastern Europe....

David Carson MBE is an interesting man. A former Army Reservist and Cadet Force Officer, he has lived in Alton Barnes for most of his...

By Steve Dewey A recent post on the Warminster and District Memories Facebook page brought to my attention milestones in Sutton Veny and...

There are many "Blind Houses" in Wiltshire, dating back to the 18th Century. The term is the local Wiltshire term for a village lock up,...

Recently I did the same Wiltshire walk, 8 days apart. During the first walk, the sun broke through the clouds to provide contrasting...

By Paul Timlett This blog was updated with additional information and a route map on 1 December 2021. Since this is a blog about walking...

By Paul Timlett I thought I’d submit this little blog about my photographic reflections following nearly two weeks (or is it two...

Bluebells are a welcome sight in spring, as blue carpets of flowers can transform our woodlands and for a few days and weeks turn them...

This year I have started to appreciate Wiltshire's military past, and there are a lot of long abandoned RAF bases which are little more...

When I started Hidden Wiltshire I wanted to find those places off the beaten track. But just recently, I have started to appreciate how...

By Paul Timlett If Stephen Spielberg has his way this little corner of South Wiltshire will, in a year or so's time, become very famous...

We all know where people congregate in Wiltshire around the time of the summer solstice. Stonehenge and Avebury get very busy on the...