Other Resources about Ramsbury.
You can read Barbara's brief introduction to Ramsbury on the History page
Roger Day has also recently published his history of Ramsbury at War
Video Available
The Ramsbury and Axford Millenium Video
"Ramsbury and Axford 2000"was successfully launched on 15th December 2000 and was featured in the Gazette and Herald, BBC Wiltshire Sound and the Newbury Weekly News.
This was a Ramsbury cum Axford Parish Council Millennium project which started in 1997 when the rural media charity Trilith filmed the Horticultural Society Centenary Summer Show. A group from various village organizations formed a committee, attended training days, raised funds and filmed life in the village. As well as the Horticultural Society sponsors included Kennet District Council, Community First, the PCC and the Ramsbury Parish Charities. The video portrays the diversity of life in Ramsbury and Axford such as school, sports clubs, church and chapel, boundary walk, the river local shops and businesses. Music was written and played by local musicians.
Our camera crews were local people who were given training and guidance throughout the filming by Trilith, a professional film archive company. They also edited the final version to ensure a record of the finest standard.
Sleeve Notes
By Barbara Croucher (More History Here)
The Kennet valley is one of the most beautiful in southern England. Over a thousand years ago, the Saxons came to this valley and among other settlements founded the village of Ramsbury.
Surrounded by wealthy Roman villas, as at Littlecote, the site was chosen for a Saxon iron smelting forge and in 909AD as the seat of a bishopric. By the Domesday survey in 1086 both Ramsbury and Axford werre centres of a thriving agricultural area.
Medieval industries based on farming, such as brewing and tanning, prospered until the canal and railway were routed away from this stretch of the Kennet valley, hastening a decline, made harder by the agricultural depression of the late 19th century. Increase mobility after 1945, the construction of the M4, and Ramsbury's position in the hi-tech western corridor near Swindon and Newbury, has brought a new thriving phase to the village.
This video is a record of the people, activities and places of Ramsbury and Axford in the final years of the second millenium. A moment in time, captured on film, in the continuing history of these ancient rural communities.
How to Get It
The video is available through the Ramsbury Parish Council.
For delivery In the UK, please write to:
Mr R Alexander, 55a High Street, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wilts, SN8 2QN
£12.99 each + £1.50 for Postage and Packing. Total £14.49
UK cheques only please, made payable to "Ramsbury Parish Council"
For delivery overseas
We can also make the video available in a format suitable for the USA at £15.99.
Please email Video@Ramsbury.com with all your details and we will let you know the shipping and total cost.
Webmaster's note. If anyone in the village can provide an easy way to fulfill overseas orders using credit card payments, please contact Peter.Raper@Ramsbury.com. Let's move Ramsbury.com into the forefront of e-commerce!
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