Environment

Many of you are going to wake up this morning to the shocking realisation that you no longer live in Wiltshire.  That's right, you didn't misread what I had written, you don't live in Wiltshire...

Another interesting week in the borehole.  After the torrential rain the week before last and the snow last weekend whilst the water levels in the borehole fell to a low of 95.62 metres AOD last...

Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I'll begin.  It's been a truly horrible week with lots of heavy rain and wind, so you might have expected the water level in the Tilshead borehole to have risen...

Hope you like the new-look Parish Council website.  This has been done to bring the site into compliance with the latest changes to the accessibility regulations.  It's designed to be more...

The water level in the Tilshead borehole has risen steadily over the last week.  As I have mentioned in previous years, at this stage of the season, the aquifer is fairly insensitive to rainfall as...

The water level in the Tilshead borehole has risen steadily over the last week.  The level is still above the 7-year average and about 3-4 weeks early. More rain is forecast for the coming week...

The water level in the aquifer has risen steadily throughout the first week of December, but not as dramatically as some might imagine given the torrential downpours yesterday.  Although the run-off...

Today is the first day of recording for the 2020-2021 flood season.  As in previous years, the weekly graph will show the depth of water in the Tilshead borehole expressed in metres above Ordnance...

Following the events of a couple of weeks ago, when one of three old Poplar trees between Brook Close and the A303 adjacent to Frog Alley (The path between Church Street bridge and the A303) blew...

A lovely dry and often warm week has seen the steady fall of the Tilshead borehole water level and it is now below the 99m AOD flood alert level; although our Environment Agency Flood Alert remains...