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Silver Street, MALMESBURY, SN16 9QF

The track serves to provide access to several properties and smallholdings. It is also the beginning of a public footpath. In the distance is Hornbury Hill Image Although it was a quiet day in the village my presence didn't go unnoticed.

The bus shelter was presented by Minety Women's Institute.

Unusually there are no names on the memorial.

The plaque can be seen in situ here Image

Houses on Hornbury Hill in the village of Minety.

Minety school originally operated in this building on a bend in Silver Street, but is now on a site directly opposite. The old buildings are now in private use but part of the old grounds was given over to the village war memorial.

It was with great immediacy that Minety's council acted to create a lasting memorial to those who were lost in the Great War. As soon as 15th November, 1918, a motion was passed to do so. Funds were raised in the following year and on 6th March, 1920, Mrs Gouldsmith unveiled the memorial, which was then dedicated by the vicar, Reverend T. A. Ludlow-Hewitt. Hughes and Son of Malmesbury crafted the granite obelisk, which is now Grade II listed. Interestingly, there are no names on the memorial - even after the additional losses of WWII. It was first thought that twelve men of Minety were lost in WWI, but later research has indicated that there are probably more - mainly people who were from the village but moved elsewhere in time. Instead, the sides of the obelisk bear the legend 'Is it nothing to all ye who pass by?' Clearly, it does mean something to some.

The old phone box is now overflowing with books for the pre-school and others.

Minety's modern school lies just beyond the bus shelter and old phone box, with the latter converted into a book store. Inside the shelter is a large motif of the Queen's Jubilee of 2022; it also bears a plaque marking it as being presented to the village by the local Women's Institute in 1956.