1957
The Urban District Of Warminster Official Guide 1957/8 noted that:
On a really fine day there is a striking view across the west of Wiltshire and far into Somerset and Gloucestershire from the hills overlooking Bratton.
Category: Bratton: Gleanings
Two Watercolours Of Westbury White Horse By Eric Ravilious
Two fabulous watercolours by Eric Ravilious, both featuring Westbury White Horse:
The Westbury Horse.
Watercolour by Eric Ravilious. 1939.
(DACS/Artist’s estate).
Note the steam train passing by.
Train Landscape.
Watercolour by Eric Ravilious, 1940.
(DACS/artist’s estate).
Westbury White Horse
seen from the carriage window.
Swedes At Bratton Camp
A.G. Bradley, in his book Round About Wiltshire, first published in 1907, noted:
“It was a wonderfully clear morning in early autumn when I mounted the heights of Bratton camp. A crop of swedes filled the twenty acres enclosed by the ramparts, so the coarse unpastured grasses waved rankly over bank and ditch.”
Marriage Custom At Bratton
From The Warminster Herald, 18th July 1874:
“A rather novel way of proceeding to church, previous to being joined together in holy matrimony, has of late been introduced into Bratton, and is pretty common. The happy morning having arrived, the pair with their respective attendants, dressed in their ordinary or casual attire, proceed by different roads to church, where they meet and enter together. The sacred service having been gone through and the pair united, they come out of church and separate with their attendants, proceeding the same route as heretofore.”