Wiltshire's River Ebble - with Peter Borenius from Coombe Bissett near Salisbury

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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2016 · News & Politics

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The River Ebble in Wiltshire
with Peter Borenius

Tony Gosling
BBC Wiltshire Sound
Summer 1992

Coombe Bissett is a village and Civil Parish in the English county of Wiltshire. It is a village in the River Ebble valley.
Coombe Bissett has a pub "The Fox & Goose", and a church "St Michael and All Angels", the area is informally known as "Crumbly Biscuit".
There are two nature reserves nearby, "Coombe Bissett Nature Reserve" and "Wiltshire Wildlife Trust".

The River Ebble is one the five rivers of Salisbury. It rises at Alvediston, 12 miles to the west of the city, and joins the River Avon at Bodenham. The River Chalke is the most significant tributary of the Ebble rising in Bowerchalke and flowing through the Chalke Valley to join the Ebble at Mount Sorrel in Broad Chalke, after running through extensive watercress and trout farms.

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