Pond Farm – then and now

Pond Farm is one of the lost farms on Salisbury Plain. It was an active farm until about 1910, albeit its piece was disturbed by the summer regimental camps which took place there. Then it became par...

Pond Farm for sale

Today we look at an extract from the Bath Evening Chronicle for Monday June 11th 1877. Little details are always of interest. This paper, it says, was produced every afternoon at five o’clock and...

Pond Farm again

We looked at Pond Farm back in 2013 and you can click here to see that post. Pond Farm was one of the hill farms up on Salisbury Plain. It was up above Easterton and the area remains in the Easterton...

Before World War One

This year, and quite rightly, there has been much talk about World War One – and we’ve done our share of that. But of course, parts of our area were militarised before the Great War – that war w...

The Story of Laura Hughes

Laura was one of the last people to live at Pond Farm on the downs above Easterton. By the time she was there it was no longer a farm and her dad was employed to operate the water pumping engine. Lau...

Pond Farm

Pond Farm was one of the hill farms of our parish. These days it is in a part of Easterton which the military authorities on Salisbury Plain have completely closed to the public. Our old photo, taken ...

The Man in White

Pictures of Pond Farm Camp have featured from time to time on the blog. This was the military encampment up on Salisbury Plain above Easterton. Market Lavington Museum has recently received further ph...