One of Wiltshire's finest sons made a walk from his home to Liddington Church in 1866 and his record of it was then published in the North Wiltshire Herald. How appropriate the inscription he read might seem today with Swindon growing and encroaching on the village. Today Liddington seems a quiet and sleepy village yet I wonder if a 19th Century time traveller would recognise its sights and sounds recorded on the Summer Solstice 2011.
'It is a strange church-yard this one at Liddington, elevated many feet above the level of the street; built up partly by a stone wall, partly banked. At the entrance is built a kind of house with seats, written over it to meet the comer’s eye are the words – “Here we have no abiding city.”
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