I wrote about RAF Ramsbury earlier in the year, and touched on the part it played in World War Two. Today the site has been returned to agriculture and almost none of the original structure remains, although if you look at aerial photos you can clearly see the shape of the perimeter. Until this year if you were walking through the site at ground level you might see the odd concrete block but nothing to tell you of the part the airfield played in D-Day and the liberation of Eu

This year I have started to appreciate Wiltshire's military past, and there are a lot of long abandoned RAF bases which are little more than footnotes in history. But concrete remnants often provide clue to the past and RAF Ramsbury is no exception to this as this photo from Google Earth shows - the shape of the perimeter is still intact and more can be seen at ground level. While there are concrete remains, there is nothing to tell you of the part the airfield played in D-Da

I had heard of Ramsbury so many times over the years of living in Wiltshire but my visit to the meadow was also my first time to this quaint little village. Ramsbury may be small with a population of less than 2,000 but it has its very own Bishop. Ramsbury doesn't have a cathedral of course, the office holder is a suffragan bishop - essentially he is the number two to the Bishop of Salisbury. But the first Bishop of Ramsbury was Aethelstan in 909 so this seat, and this villag