Wiltshire map, A3

This is my new map of Wiltshire. It shows the towns, historic buildings and monuments, from Stonehenge and Avebury through to the Industrial Revolution , with Crofton pumping station and the wollen mills of Trowbridge.

I'd been intending for ages to do a map of Wiltshire. And now I have. Took ruddy ages, I must say.

Lots of historic things, like Jane Seymour at Wolf Hall, and the Flying Monk of Malmesbury, and Hannah Twynnoy being done in by a tiger. And Stonehenge and Avebury, of course.

I managed to get all the White Horses in; Broad Town, Hackpen, Cherhill, Devizes, Alton Barnes, Pewsey, Westbury. I even managed to squeeze in the Uffington horse, despite it being in Oxfordshire, because it featured on the sleeve of the album English Settlement, by Swindon's greatest band, XTC.

And I've indulged my love of aeroplanes by adding the quirky Edgley Optica (built at Old Sarum), a Spitfire (built in Trowbridge), a Chinook on manouevres on Salisbury Plain, a BE2 and a Boxkite at Upavon and an Avro York taking off from Lyneham.

And because history isn't all fancy dress and morris dancing, there's the Battle of the Bean Field, and the Handsel sisters, murdered by the locals because they were a bit foreign and blamed for a smallpox outbreak; and they were buried in different places around the woods to stop their spirits getting together for further witchy mischief.

And lots more besides. I'm afraid that Corsham and its peacocks didn't get in, because I wanted to do a nice picture of Bradford on Avon, which went a bit far north. I hope the locals can forgive me; I'd hate to have another Tiverton incident.


Printed on good quality 300gsm paper


Regarding postage costs: it's difficult to work out how much to charge, when it comes to multiple orders; if the total postage cost comes to an excessive amount, I always issue a refund to make up the difference. Sorry, it's a tricky business. It once cost me far more to send something to the USA than I earned from the transaction!