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Could your garden be one of Marlborough's 'Open Gardens' this June?

1 week ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

Every summer The Merchant’s House organises an event for us to go and visit some of Marlborough’s beautiful gardens within easy reach of the High Street. One of them could be yours? Last year there were twelve to visit, this year – who knows?
Oak Felled - Serious Questions Need Answers

1 week ago | marlborough.news | David Oliver

This isn’t an immediately ‘local’ news item, but given the importance and prominence of some of the great ancient oaks of Savernake forest, it’s a tale to tell. This relates to a 450-year-old oak in Whitewebbs Wood, Enfield. It hasn’t been ‘felled’, more pollarded, though I am guessing that is because someone didn’t get to finish the job before being stopped. I’ve got loads to say, but I don’t really know all the facts yet.
'Player of the Year' 2025 voting now open for Marlborough Youth Football Club

1 week ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

Marlborough Youth Football Club (MYFC) is inviting parents, the public, and club members to vote for this season’s Club Player of the Year. As one of Marlborough’s largest and most established community sports clubs, MYFC now proudly boasts around 500 players across more than thirty boys, girls, and mixed teams.
"Someone is going to die there..." Dangerous pothole on B4192 causing damage, accidents but still there

1 week ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

The words of Aldbourne & Ramsbury Wiltshire Councillor James Sheppard about the above pothole on the B4192, just to the north of Aldbourne on the way to Swindon. Tyres damaged beyond repair, alloy wheels cracked and broken, and very recently a car hit the pothole and went right off the road and the Police then arrived to put the blue flashing light in the middle of the carriageway as a warning. But it’s just before a blind brow on a fast straight main road.
Marlborough West - Oliver Lang

1 week ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

Oliver Lang – Labour PartyI run my own locally based small business, advising businesses and trade organisations in the media industry on how to develop strategy and policies for growth. I work across the private and not-for-profit sectors and have recently done extensive work on skills strategy and policy, with a particular emphasis on how to develop skills and jobs that will be needed in the economy of the future.
Aldbourne & Ramsbury Division

1 week ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

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Marlborough Bowls Club - welcomes new members - season starts on Saturday 19 April

2 weeks ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

If the weather over the next few months is anything like the recent few weeks, then Marlborough Bowls Club adjacent to the Salisbury Road Recreation Ground will be a very popular place. Members of the club have been busy recently, taking advantage of the ‘kind’ weather to get the green and clubhouse ready for the start of the new season – Saturday 19 April. From then on the club will be open for existing players / members, but also to welcome anyone wishing to join and to try playing bowls.
Traffic Chaos update: A346 (at Ogbourne) to be closed overnight today (Friday 11 April) and possibly tomorrow night as well?

2 weeks ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

More roadworks and road closures – this is for tonight (Friday 11 April) and tomorrow night – possibly. It’s not Herd St, it’s further long the A346 towards Swindon at Ogbourne Maizey. Apparently it’s for surface dressing. However, there is – as is often the case – some lack of clarity regarding over how many nights the closure(s) will take place. Firstly – it’s good that there is a sign giving us information in advance.
Crofton Beam Engines to be back steaming in time for Easter

2 weeks ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

After the winter layoff and time for maintenance, Crofton Beam Engines will be open and back in Steam for the first time in 2025 to celebrate Easter and their great industrial heritage. Opportunity to see the classic steam engines working as they have done since 1813. The 1812 Boulton & Watt and 1846 Harvey Beam Engines will be doing their original job of pumping water to the summit of the Kennet & Avon Canal, keeping this very important waterway open for all.
90 years on The Common and counting - Marlborough Rugby unveil memorial wall of granite bricks

2 weeks ago | marlborough.news | Neil Goodwin

Ninety years playing Rugby on The Common – now marked in granite as Marlborough’s Deputy Mayor, Emily Trow cut the Gold and Black ribbons to formally declare the Memorial Wall open. Rugby on The Common, on the same pitches that are used today started in 1934. The wall of engraved granite bricks marks this achievement. But Rugby in Marlborough goes back even further, a long way further back, and the (then) club as it was then was one of the founding members of the Rugby Football Union in 1871.