Alton Parish Village website
This is the Website of Alton Parish Council, comprising the three villages of Alton Barnes, Alton Priors and Honeystreet.
This website last updated 26 October 2024
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Parish Council
Meetings are at the Coronation Hall
The next Parish Council meeting on Thursday, November 21st
at the Coronation Hall at 7:00 pm
In aid of the Bobby Van Trust Wiltshire
Protecting the elderly and vulnerable in Wiltshire and Swindon since 1998
The Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust (WBVT) provides a free home security service and online safety service for over 60s, 18+ with a registered disability and people experiencing domestic abuse
throughout , Wiltshire and Swindon.
Coronation Hall
To Hire the Coronation Hall
Contact Richard on email:- richardheacock@mac.com
Hall Committee Vacancies
Would you like to join the Hall Committee and help with the general running of things in the Village?
The Hall Committee would like to hear from you.
Email the hall on:- Hall@altonsandhoneystreet.org.uk
Saturday Coffee Mornings
Saturday 2nd November 2024
Coronation Hall
Alton Barnes Village Hall
10.00 am-12.00 noon
Alton Talks
Thursday 28 November 2024 at the Coronation Hall
Wiltshire’s Chalk Horses
A talk by Garry Gibbons
Wiltshire's stable of equine chalk hill-figures are arguably the county's most prominent group of landscape monuments. They have persisted across the decades due to a strong symbiotic relationship between each chalk horse and its local community. Yet the simple question of why this nationally unique herd of current -- and lost -- chalk horses were corralled within a small area of Wiltshire across the 18th and 19th centuries continues to evade us. This talk begins by exploring how today’s popular understanding of Wiltshire’s chalk horses came to be established, it then proceeds by presenting recent investigations at Marlborough and Devizes, the results of which demonstrate that a more nuanced understanding of the county’s equine chalk hill-figures can be achieved through a combination of topographic survey and social history research.
Licensed Bar open before and after the talk
Book in advance online. Use QR code. Tickets £8.00 each
www.ticketsource.co.uk/alton-arts-for-the-coronation-hall-alton-barnes
