User talk:Wire723/Archive 1

Sodom, Wiltshire
Hi Wire723. thanks for your comment regarding Sodom, Wiltshire. It's interesting that the Ordnance Survey lists Sodom. It's also visible on the OS map here: 

However, I don't think Sodom exists in a tangible form any longer.

Wilts Council says in its thumbnail history of Dauntsey that Sodom "once existed, but now remain(s) only in the names of farms, houses and roads." 

The area is well mapped by Google, both from the air and with Street View. If you travel from Dauntsey Green over the M4 and down the length of Sodom Lane you'll find no signs with Sodom on - either delineating the start of a hamlet or direction signs to it. There are a number of houses and farms, but they all have postal addresses in Dauntsey or Chippenham. There's also Old Sodom Lane - now a cul-de-sac in Dauntsey since the M4 sliced it in two - and a farm track the other side of the motorway.

I don't disagree that there was a hamlet called Sodom - but it's long gone in any official capacity. It's quaint that the OS still plots it, but it clearly means nothing to the Council or Post Office. Best wishes Guffydrawers (talk) 20:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * "replace Sodom, Wiltshire with a redirect to Dauntsey" Good call. Please do! All the best Guffydrawers (talk) 09:38, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Listed gardens
Thank you so much for helping with the listed parks and gardens. We've come so much closer to categorizing all of them this year. No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Neptune Statue
EH is plainly wrong about date the Neptune Statue was moved - this photo, which judging from the bomb damage is post-war, shows it very much still in place in Temple St: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2054720608. The 1949 move was to the Quay Head, so EH is also out of date when it says it was moved to its present site at that time - it was moved from the Quay Head to its current location, near Baldwin St, during the millennium remodelling. RedSquirrel (talk) 09:15, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Aha, here's better proof: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3618847 — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedSquirrel (talk • contribs) 09:24, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Good research! Wire723 (talk) 09:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation
Hi, would love to see your expanded articles on the The 10,000 Challenge ‎ and The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge. Theere's currently prizes for destubbing articles for different areas of the UK and the world. † Encyclopædius  15:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Julian Bream I believe lives in Wiltshire, one of my favourite guitarists! † Encyclopædius  15:25, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Not motivated by competitions, though you prompted me to tidy the Bream article. --Wire723 (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2020 (UTC)