Ramsbury, the Town That Never Quite was: The 1100-year Story of Marlborough’s Kennet Valley Neighbour

TALK: Seven miles from Marlborough – the classic distance between medieval markets – Ramsbury shares the same Kennet Valley environment as its neighbour but has a very different story to tell. Once the seat of Anglo-Saxon bishops and now the hub of a vibrant modern community, the intervening centuries have seen it repeatedly re-fashion itself in response to the changing economic and social demands of the wider world.

SPEAKER: Rowan Whimster has lived in north Wiltshire for more than 30 years, first in Marlborough and since 2006 down the road in Ramsbury. He began his career as an aerial archaeologist and later worked with English Heritage, the National Trust and some of the other organisations who look after this country’s most precious places. More locally, he is Trustee of the Merchant’s House and the author of Ramsbury: A Place and its People.