The glory of Wiltshire is its antiquity, the beauty of its landscape and the old-fashioned charm of its villages and market towns. But as the ancient monuments and the settlements show, this tranquil landscape has been used by human beings - farmed, worshipped, lived in - for all these long years.
High Post - where the Stones Hotel is, above the Woodford Valley south of Amesbury - was a Spitfire factory in the War. The fuselages would be made in workshops and garden sheds in Salisbury, then towed up here where their wings were bolted on.
