Netheravon

Netheravon is a village and civil parish on the River Avon and A345 road, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, South West England.

A history by Wiltshire Council added the following specifics:[6] Building work in the 1960s included cottages on the west side of Mill Road being replaced by council houses... A sewerage works had been built in 1952, and a cemetery also opened in that year.

Social events and activities were held, an historical society formed and in 1991 a new Top Hat Club founded.

In 1791 a block was added in the centre of the north front, for Michael Hicks Beach to designs of John Soane.

[7] The three-storey house is built in brick and has five bays to its south entrance front, where there is a pedimented porch.

[9] The large stable block, added some time between 1734 and 1740, is also in brick, and surrounds four sides of a courtyard with a narrow opening to the north.

By that time the 11,188 square foot home had been extensively renovated; the north wing remained a separate residence.

[14] The Church of All Saints is built of rendered flint, has a tall west tower and its lower parts survive from the 11th century.

Baden-Powell envisioned developments in the use of Cavalry following his experiences in Southern Africa and India, and lessons from the Second Boer War.

[22][23] With the establishment of the airfield in 1912, the Cavalry School continued to operate in the remaining training areas until the beginning of the war, re-opening briefly in 1919.

Channel 4 television programme Time Team briefly re-investigated the Roman villa site for a Series 4 episode, first broadcast in 1997.

[26] Sydney Smith (1771–1845), later known as a humourist and writer, was a curate at Netheravon in the late 1790s and established a Sunday school.

[27] Oliver Kite (1920–1968) was an equally well known fly fisherman who, from 1958 until his death on the River Test from a heart attack, lived on the High Street as a near neighbour of Sawyer.

He presented a Southern television series, Kite's Country, and wrote Nymph Fishing in Practice.

The dovecote at Netheravon House
All Saints Church