Our Landscape, Our History As already reported on this website, Wiltshire’s topography shaped its farming patterns and trade. The lie of the land, along with other factors, also contributed to the spread of radicalism during the Renaissance. In England, the Renaissance is marked by the rebirth of the human spirit Read more…
Our place in history The story so far. We have seen evidence of Neolithic and Roman activity in the parish of Nettleton. Here we take a look at the early medieval period, and of the presence of Saxons and Vikings in Wiltshire. Tyranny in the wake of Roman exit Following Read more…
Our Landscape, Our History: Water Mills Deriving from the Burton and Broadmead Brooks, the By Brook descends some 200m in 25km from its highest point to its confluence with the River Avon. The By Brook has powered at least 20 water mills along its length since ancient times. By Brook Read more…
Our landscape, our history Land use is often determined by the underlying physical environment, especially geology, topography and hydrology. Here we take a high level view of the most important physical characteristics of Wiltshire, from which we may extrapolate why different regions came to be used in distinct ways. In Read more…
Elsewhere on this website, we have seen archaeological evidence of human activity in the Nettleton area, such as Neolithic burial mounds, Roman shrines and Medieval causeways. These are features either visible on the ground or which were discovered through excavation. Here we take to the skies to discover more about Read more…
Our landscape, our history The landscape we see today tells us much about how we lived in the past. It has evolved over thousands of years of human activity, settlement and exploitation of the land. We take a look at just some of the landscape archaeology and physical features evident Read more…
Author: Chris Bennett Wiltoniae – Wiltunscir – Wilshyre – Wilshire – Wiltshire You know when you think you may have a bright idea and begin to wonder what the land around Burton would have looked like years & years ago, with perhaps a bit more about its history, yes of Read more…
Author: Chris Bennett This article will focus on providing some brief information on a building known as The Village Hall, Nettleton Road erected in about 1921/22 (the current site of the children’s play area, which was opened in 2018) The attached documents provide details of the village hall construction and Read more…
Author: Chris Bennett This article will focus on providing some brief information on a house/building later to become known as The Old House at Home Public House, situated on the main road through the village of Burton. We hope you can get a flavour of some of the history surrounding Read more…
The Shrine of Apollo in the post-Roman era Where the Fosse Way crosses the Broadmead Brook, beneath the tranquil valley at Nettleton Shrub lurks a secret dark and ancient. Who would guess this now peaceful conservation area was witness to successive waves of violent assault in the post-Roman era? Two Read more…