BBC Wiltshire presents Wilton's windmill on film!
We joined the 2000 other people who visited Wilton Windmill recently to experience 'From Sheaf to a Loaf in A Day' - the windmill's Country Fair.

Barford St Martin Midsummer Festival
Don't Walk Around with Nothing On is the title of one of the plays coming to Barford St Martin this month as part of the village Midsummer Festival.

Blunsdon Community Shop opens
People in Blunsdon turned out in force recently to witness the official opening of their new community shop - a year after their old shop finally closed.

Lyneham's award winning village website
Lyneham's very own village website is one of twelve contenders in the Village Web Site of the Year 2003 competition. We've been talking to Lyneham Wiltshire and Beyond's webmaster Andy Humm about the success of his site.

Parish Magazine Awards 2003
Salisbury-based firm Parish Mag Printers is hosting an exciting competition open to all parish magazine editors throughout the Diocese - the Parish Magazine Awards 2003.

Observing the highway toad...
With spring upon us, spare a thought for the common toad, whose route to conjugal bliss, according to the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, too often ends in violent death.

Shopping dropping in on Blunsdon
Find out how the people of Blunsdon rallied round to re-instate their village shop - which eventually arrived on the back of a low-loader!

Cash boost for rural transport in Wiltshire
A cash boost of nearly £170,000 will give rural communities in Wiltshire a ticket to ride.

Can't cook? Just come into the kitchen...
Despite TV schedules bursting with cookery programmes, there are thousands of people who see the kitchen as a no-go area. Jenny Groom from Horton, near Devizes, is on a mission to make life in the kitchen more bearable...

Remembering Codford's workaday warriors
Romy Wyeth from Codford has been talking about her new book, which recalls the everyday acts of courage and heroism by those men connected with the village and who found themselves 'workaday warriors'.

The national Wildlife Garden of the Year contest
A typical country cottage near Calne proves it is attractive for both humans and wildlife alike. We find out about the national Wildlife Garden of the Year contest.

September, 2002
Award-winnning cheesemakers
Unlike many other English county's, Wiltshire is not high on the list for cheesemaking. But all that could change following this year's British Cheese Awards.

Tuesday 24th September, 2002
Wild garden for wildlife
The 'organised chaos' of a cottage garden near Calne has caught the attention of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and the Daily Telegraph in a national contest to find the wildlife garden of the year.

Saturday 28th September, 2002
Drawing on the day
BBC Wiltshire has been to Aldbourne to meet a textile artist who for the last year has been keeping a very unusual record of her day-to-day life.

Friday 7th November, 2002
Remembering Codford's workaday warriors
Romy Wyeth from Codford has been talking about her new book, which recalls the everyday acts of courage and heroism by those men connected with the village and who found themselves 'workaday warriors'.

Two Wiltshire postmen are hooked on stamps
Two Swindon postmen transformed themselves into Peter Pan and arch enemy Captain Hook in the village of Hook to launch the Royal Mail's new stamps.

A family of artists
As The Bath Society of Artists holds its Annual Summer Exhibition, BBC Wiltshire has been to meet three of its members who are from the same family and live in the same Wiltshire village.

Check your speed!
As the holiday season continues, police in Wiltshire are warning motorists to check their speed. We find out how hard it can be to pick up the pieces.

Horses take a break
Four of Wadworth's hardest-working employees have just started a well-earned break - not on the sun-kissed beaches of Spain but in the local fields around Devizes

Neston untie the Millennium Knot
On the morning of Saturday 16th March, Neston villagers will be planting trees, placing seating and unveiling the Neston Millennium Knot sculpture by local artist Andrea Garrihy.

Wednesday 5th July 2002
Poulshot past in print
A new book, Down Poulshot, records how C20th changes affected rural life in this Wiltshire village. Read here how Poulshot is more united than ever.

Thursday 13th June, 2002
New Tidworth Forum
A new Community Area Forum in south-east Kennet hopes to build on the success already demonstrated by the Garrison Town of Tidworth.

Wednesday 3rd July 2002
Chiseldon on show
A temporary exhibition revealing Chiseldon's history went on display at the end of June. As BBC Wiltshire discovers, there is more to this North Wiltshire village than meets the eye.

Friday 25th May 2002, 12:30 BST
Village secrets revealed
As people in the village of Great Wishford prepare for the Oak Apple day celebrations, a new book aims to reveal the history of this south Wiltshire community.

Friday 17th May, 2002, 16:00 BST
Villages celebrate in style
It seems that Wiltshire's villages are getting the royal bit between the teeth and going for it in style when it comes to celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Bells of Wilton wake residents of Australia
The residents of a city in Australia will awake to the sounds of the bells of a Wiltshire church this Christmas. It is a sound they have been waiting to hear for over 70 years.

Fostering good relationships
Cheek by jowl: how people living in Colerne are getting ready for their look over the fence during 21st Signal Regiment's open day. We find out how this North Wiltshire community continues to be busy.

Show is a success
Organisers feared that six months of research and two months hard work would find no reward proved to be unfounded as villagers flocked to the Hilperton Village Design Study.

An 1866 thank-you letter to go on display
A village near Warminster is reaching into the past, in order to raise money for the future. Sutton Veny village hall needs modernising, and an exhibition of local memorabilia could be the answer.

The Stourhead fire
On the 16 April 1902 a great fire broke out in a bedroom at Stourhead, by the morning the great house was a shell....

St. Giles - a ghost village's church
Isolated in the middle of hundreds of acres of tank track scarred Wiltshire countryside, surrounded by the battered shells of houses, stands the beautiful 700 year old church of St. Giles.

Mysterious power of the dance
...."There are far more than a statistical average of ladies of all ages who have taken part in the dance and have then found themselves in the family way within twelve months."

4x4 enthusiasts condemn beauty spot damage
4x4 enthusiasts have been writing to BBC Wiltshire angry that a minority of drivers are giving their sport a bad name.

The Lady of Lover
A lady in a small village outside Salisbury who gets more than 2,000 valentines.

21st century village
Find out how the village of Aldbourne is helping its community get on-line.

Organ on the move
A partnership between Eric Dibben and his church organ has lasted nearly 50 years.

Flood prevention work
Read about the Downton floods of 2000 and the work to stop it happening again.

Running a tourist pub
Find out what it is like to run a pub in one of Wiltshire's top tourism
destinations.

Inside Castle Combe
The ups and downs of living in one of the county's prettiest villages.

Campaign against speeding
David Rhodes was so fed-up with motorists allegedly speeding past his house he borrowed a speed gun to prove it.

Chalk panda mystery
The real story about the chalk figure that appeared on the hill at Laverstock overnight.

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