Welcome to Marlborough and all its delights

Top of any day tripper's list when they visit Marlborough is the Merchant's House. This magnificent timber and brick building is a Marlborough landmark, constructed by prosperous silk merchant, Thoma...

Summer is the time for swanking around stately homes and pretending that you live there. Wiltshire has a world-class collection of magnificent gardens and stately homes, and within striking distance o...

The qualities of innocence, elegance and purity are not easy to encapsulate, but jeweller David Dudley has pulled it off in some style with his Ella Collection. Inspired by his granddaughter, the Ella...

Independent trading at its finest, Valentiner Designs is a perfect example of what Marlborough does best – selling fairly-priced, quality products that you won’t find in the big ...

A kitchen shouldn’t just look good, it needs to work. When renovating their homes, people often get carried away with appearance – fixating on Shaker-style doors and forgetting that cou...

With DIY season in full swing, households up and down the country will be poring over paint charts, fabric swatches and furniture showrooms. But how many of us give more than a passing thought to t...

In a world of sweatshop-manufactured, cheap clothing we have become buy-it then chuck-it consumers. Often poorly made, these bargain items are a false economy and after only a handful of wears don...

Serving what is arguably the finest coffee in Marlborough, the Food Gallery jealously guards its secret blend. Saturated as we are with bland high street coffee shops selling inoffensive ...

With summer finally here, many of us dream of driving with the top down, our hair (or the dog’s ears) whipping in the breeze. But this is England. For driving thrills which do not rely on clem...

This evening (Wednesday) at approximately 5.30 police reported that a Waitrose delivery lorry travelling West on the A4 struck and became lodged underneath the College Bridge. This ...

Firemen: the brave heroes who rescue us from raging fires and extract the injured from mangled vehicles. But yesterday in Marlborough the officers of the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service assumed a ...

Alma Mater to an illustrious roll call which includes William Morris, poets Siegfried Sassoon, Louis MacNeice and John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin, bankrupts Ian and Kevin Maxwell and the sublimely talented Nick Drake......

The Cold War, that period of political and military tension between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was rich with tall tales and conspiracy theories. The daily newspaper fodder of scare stories...

Within five miles of each other, west of Marlborough and close to the Bath Road (A4) exist two spectacular Mounds whose origins have spun mystery and conjecture for centuries....