East Grafton

TWO Marlborough ladies and champion jockey Tony McCoy, who part-owns the Outside Chance in Manton, are among those to have made the Queen's New Year honours list. June Pearson, of East Grafton, will receive an MBE, Sheila Glass, of Ramsbury, ...

TWO Marlborough ladies and champion jockey Tony McCoy, who part-owns the Outside Chance in Manton, are among those to have made the Queen's New Year honours list. June Pearson, of East Grafton, will receive an MBE, Sheila Glass, of Ramsbury, ...

A PUBLIC appeal has helped save a rare gold Saxon coin for Wiltshire, a bid of £18,000 securing it. The coin was found in a field at East Grafton, near Pewsey, and now belongs to Wiltshire Museum in Long Street, Devizes. It was bought at an auction ...

An "excessively rare" Saxon gold coin that was discovered near a Wiltshire village has been sold for £21,600. The coin, said to date from the dawn of English Christianity, was unearthed in East Grafton by a metal detectorist. Richard Bishop, from ...

The coin was found in East Grafton in April and was recorded by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Mr Dawson said: "We are launching a fundraising campaign to secure this important find for the Museum. If people can help us raise the funds we need ...

He said: "East Grafton is close to Great Bedwyn and the Saxon royal manor that was probably at Chisbury, just to the north. "Later in the Saxon period, Bedwyn has a mint – showing how important it was and it was only later than Marlborough became more ...