Corsham

And over at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon, it's Le Vent du Nord, a Canadian folk music band performing.

Corsham's Pound Arts have got Danny Lee Grou with 24K Magic.

That's comedy from seven thirty.

And over at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester, it's Mi Flamenco with Umbra at seven thirty.

That's Moondog and the London Saxophonic with Will Gregory and Robert Stillman performing.

Corsham's Pound Arts have got Sam Carter sings Nick Jones from 7.30. And over at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester, it's Danny Lee Grew with 24-carat magic comedy at 7.30. Head to the Village Hall in East Tower for a moviola of Mamma Mia.

And over in Froome at the Merlin, it's Michael Spicer in Hope All's Well.

At the Cheese and Grain in Froome, you can see the Amazons performing.

Down on the coast now at the Christchurch Regent Centre, it's Grindfest with Star Chaser, The Legend of Orin.

And head to Corsham's Pound Arts for Hudson and Hudson, Married at First Slight, that's comedy from 7.30. At the Corn Exchange in Dorchester, you can see Riddle Stick Theatre in Barleycorn, that's new folk musical from 7.30. And head to the Merlin in Froome for new old friends in Pick and Mix.

Also in Froome at the Cheese and Grain, it's Metallica Reloaded, that's a tribute band.

Shaftesbury firefighters were called out yesterday following a road traffic collision at the junction of the A350 and the slip road where you join the A303, just north of East Noyle.

Leave the United States behind.

You are in the English countryside, near the town of Corsham in Wiltshire, roughly twenty kilometres east of Bath.

The surface here is the England of postcards and period dramas, rolling green hills stitched together by dry stone walls, sheep grazing in fields that have been farmed for centuries, lanes so narrow that two cars cannot pass each other without one of them reversing into a hedgerow the light is soft the air smells like grass and rain the landscape has the particular calm of a place that has not been dramatically changed by modernity where the rhythms of agriculture and weather still dictate the texture of daily life, where the pubs are old and the churches are older and the hills have been green since before anyone thought to write about them.

Beneath this landscape, beneath the sheep and the stone walls, and the soft English rain, lies something that makes the Greenbrier look modest.

Burlington was a functioning underground city built inside abandoned stone quarries beneath a Wiltshire hillside.

The quarries themselves are part of the story.

The Bath stone quarries near Corsham have been excavated since at least the 17th century, providing the honey-coloured limestone that gives the city of Bath its distinctive appearance.

Over the centuries the quarrying created a vast network of underground chambers, caverns and tunnels carved into the limestone, some of them enormous with ceilings high enough to accommodate multi-storey structures, During the Second World War, parts of the quarry network were requisitioned by the British government for munition storage and aircraft engine manufacturing.

That's comedy.

Head on over to Corsham's Pound Arts for Old Baby Mackerel with some bluegrass music from 7.30. And at the Cheese and Grain in Froome, it's Flight performing.

Over in Poole at the Lighthouse is the Poole Symphonic Proms with the Poole and Parkstone Singers from 7.30. And there's some Balkan music with Oprah Rosa from 8.00. Over at the Salisbury Playhouse, it's the Haunting of Hill House, and at the Arts Centre, it's Steady Habits.

That's alternative country and soul music from 7.30. South Featherton's David Hall have got Martin Simpson performing some folk guitar music from 8, and it's the Folk Festival down in Swanage, and that's at various venues all the way through till Sunday.

That's from noon to seven.

And heading down to the coast to the Regent Centre in Christchurch, it's Country Roads from 7.30. Corsham's Pound Arts have got experimental band Pram performing from 7.30. And over in Froome at the Cheese and Grain, it's a tribute to Oasis.

At the Village Hall in Pencilwood, it's Alice Williams in the Lighthouse from 7.30. And down at the Paul Lighthouse, it's In the Night Garden, and that's noon and three o'clock.

Over in Salisbury at the Arts Centre, it's Bass Connection, that's local bands from 4.30. And at the Cathedral, there's an outdoor film screening of The Sound of Music from 7.30. Over at City Hall, you can see the undercover detective, The Makings of a Murderer.