Milestones: Rioters in Drag and the Grotesque an exhibition of prints by Jamie Hobson

Event Date: Monday 9 December to Saturday 26 April

Photographs by Jamie Hobson There are possibly 9,000 milestones, mileposts or waymarkers  still in existence in this country although the number is greatly diminished from their heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jamie first became aware of them as a child when being driven slowly, as they did in the 1950’s, past these jewels […]

The Stonehenge Landscape. A walk with Hadrian Cook.

Event Date: Wedneday 16 April 2025

A circular walk with Hadrian Cook, starting and finishing at the Woodhenge car park.  The objective is not to visit Stonehenge itself, but to provide insight into its atmospheric setting. This circular walk allows insight into one of the most iconic prehistoric chalkland landscapes in England. Monuments visited are Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in date and, together […]

Britford’s water management and lost medieval landscape. A walk with Hadrian Cook.

Event Date: Tuesday 20 May 2025

A circular walk with Hadrian Cook, starting at Bridge Farm and finishing there with a cream  tea. The interest in Britford village (and former historic Manor) is often overshadowed by other points of interest in our area. This sometime royal manor located at a fording point on the River Avon has a church of great historic interest, including […]

Tour of Down Farm and the Dorset Cursus

Event Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025

Tour of Down Farm and the Dorset Cursus Tour leader and host: Martin Green For anyone who has not yet visited Down Farm near to Sixpenny Handley on Cranborne Chase, this opportunity is a must. For anyone who has already done so, there are always new things to see and to learn. Martin Green (our […]

An Introduction to Salisbury’s Historic Architecture

Event Date: Tuesday July 8th & Wednesday July 9th 2025

Two evening guided walks with Richard Deane looking at the great variety of periods and styles of the city’s historic buildings.  The walk will take approximately 1.5 – 2 hours. Start Time : 6:30 pm. Venue : Salisbury Tourist Information Centre, Fish Row. Price  £6.50 for members and non-members. Tickets available on Event Brite Salisbury’s Historic […]

Bourne Hill Gardens and Wyndham Arms

Event Date: Friday 1st August 2025

 Tour leader and host: Neil Beagrie Salisbury is replete with gem locations that are easily overlooked, or worse taken for granted. At Bourne Hill is an eighteenth-century town garden that had been improved by Richard Woods, probably in the 1770s, replacing an earlier formal garden that was associated with St Edmund’s College. Founded in the thirteenth century, it was […]

Salisbury’s Franciscan Friary and the Buildings that Border it

Event Date: Wednesday 10 September 2025

Walk Leader Rosemary Pemberton Our walk starts in the Northwest Corner of the Friary Precinct by visiting the interior of Windover House to see it’s surprising 16th C courtyard and 17th C staircase. The walk then takes us around the perimeter of the ancient Friary, learning of its buildings, what became of its extensive grounds […]