We are delighted to announce that the Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) Project started in early April 2012. This three year project is sponsored by English Heritage and is being run by Wiltshire Council in partnership with Swindon Borough Council.

The project aims to examine Wiltshire and Swindon to investigate the historic and archaeological processes which have influenced the landscapes that we currently use and enjoy today. This will help us to understand the origins and evolution of both the countryside and urban areas of the county, and to identify what makes each place special and distinct. This innovative approach to studying the heritage of an area is called Historic Landscape Characterisation.

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This month Wiltshire Community History, http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/passed the 4,000 mark in new and old photographs and old maps of Wiltshire. Photographs represent all the completed communities that now have specially written brief histories, histories of churches, chapels and schools, booklists and other useful information. All recent photographs are geo-tagged and the building or site can be identified on an accompanying aerial photograph.

 The 11^th century font that is still in use in the Church of All Saints at Winterbourne Gunner

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