Wednesday 30th November 2023
Warminster Police report:
We are appealing to the public for help following the theft of a heifer from a farm in East Knoyle.
The theft occurred between October 17 and 20 from its field overnight, but was only recently reported to us.
The heifer is described as an 18 month old South Devon heifer, solid chestnut in colour.
If you have any information, please contact us on our website or via 101 quoting reference 54230121328.
Friday 20th September 2013
The Victoria County History of Wiltshire have issued online the history of the parish of East Knoyle, with Hindon (first published in 1980). To read it, click on: ow.ly/p1Agb
Cools Farm at East Knoyle, south of Warminster, SP3 6DB, will be open to the public on Open Farm Sunday, 17th June 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. There’s a chance to meet the animals, take part in a hosted farm tour and self-guided walks, and refreshments will be available.
Farm Features:
Beef, Poultry, Flowers and plants, Environmental stewardship.
Activities: See Red Poll cattle and calves, chickens and chicks, woodland nature trails, history and landscape trail, soup lunch, barbecue Red Poll beefburgers and sausages, cream teas on the farmhouse lawn. Various competitions.
Directions: 6 miles north of Shaftesbury off A350 – right at Millbrook Lane, signposted West Tisbury, left at first crossroads, Cools Farm is 1 mile on right. 2 miles south of Hindon – at bottom of High Street turn right, after 1.8 miles turn right down hill.
Email: sunday@coolsfarm.co.uk
Telephone: 01747 830720
Website: www.BoxBeef.com
To help give an idea for numbers, it would be helpful if you could email sunday@coolsfarm.co.uk or ring 01747 830720 to say if you are planning to visit. Thank you.For more details visit: www.farmsunday.org
Monday 23rd April 2012
Now formally constituted, and having secured a lease on premises, East Knoyle Railway Modellers are now in a position to welcome model railway enthusiasts from surrounding towns and villages who would like to join the club and be involved in their exciting project – building a scale working model (in OO gauge) of Shillingstone Station, Dorset, circa 1962.
The interests of East Knoyle Railway Modellers are varied and include “O’ and “N’ gauge and digital control. They say “Our range of skills and knowledge (or lack of) are varied . . . but foremost, we set out to welcome all who would like to join us.” Interested? Telephone Stanley Wilson, 01747 830525 or email: stanleyjwilson@btinternet.com
The words in an advertisement in a newspaper dated Tuesday 5th September 1944, read:
Preliminary Announcement.
By direction of the Trustees of the late Miss J.M. Seymour.
Wiltshire.
In a first-class Hunting and Sporting District,
About 2 hours by rail to London,
In glorious country,
The Freehold, Residential, Sporting And Agricultural Estate
of 963 Acres including the finely built and imposing Mansion,
with delightful Parklands planted with rare and lovely rhododendrons.
Four excellent Dairy Farms, Choice Small Holdings, Picturesque
Cottages and the fully-licensed Hotel known as “The Seymour Arms.”
To be offered for SALE BY AUCTION, as a whole, or in Lots,
in the Autumn of 1944.
Solicitors: Messrs. Trower, Still and Keeling,
5 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C.2.
Auctioneers: Messrs. Rawlence and Squarey, Salisbury;
6 Ashley Place, London, S.W.1; Sherborne, Dorset, and Rownhams Mount, Nursling, Southampton.
