Woodborough Parish Council

Welcome to
Woodborough in Wiltshire

Summer 2025 - Wessex Water works - C38 Broad Street/Smithy Lane crossroads

Wessex Water will be relining the sewers beneath the road during the summer holidays. The road closure notice, which can be viewed here, applies from 21st July to 29th August. Further communications are awaited from Wessex Water. Wessex Water will be accessing the manhole cover at the top of Smithy Lane; initial indications are that Wessex Water will be making access and parking arrangements for residents.

Parish Council Meetings

The next meeting of the parish council will be held on Wednesday 2nd July at 7.00pm in the Woodborough Parish Room. The agenda can be viewed here.

Spring 2025 Newsletter

In view of some posts on WhatsApp, and a few emails/letters to the parish council, please peruse this Rationale, for the planned extension to the pavement along the C261 (between Leabinloch and the stream), in conjunction with the older Summary of Traffic Management, November 2023, to be found on the documents page.

The final design for the pavement extension, produced by Wiltshire Highways, can be viewed here.

Woodborough, Wiltshire

The attractive rural civil parish of Woodborough is set almost in the middle of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, and lies within the North Wessex Downs Landscape Trust, formerly named an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is almost equidistant from the market towns of Devizes and Marlborough and 3 miles west of the village of Pewsey. There is a spectacular White Horse clearly visible on the escarpment just a few miles to the north, by Alton Barnes. As a result of a massive effort by the Woodborough community area it was completely re-chalked in 2019, with considerable help from an RAF Chinook.

Read more about the history of the White Horse here and read more about the re-chalking exercise here.

Walkers Are Welcome

Woodborough is one of the parishes within the Pewsey Community Area Partnership so will be included in the latest Walkers Are Welcome initiative. More information as to how this will benefit the Pewsey Vale can be found here. Accreditation has now been achieved - please see the press release for further information about this and view the certificate here.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Network Priority Register

Anybody with children under the age of 5, or anybody over the age of 60, or anybody with electricity-dependent vulnerabilities can apply to be added to the SSEN Priority Register for extra, immediate support in the event of a power cut. The application form is available here.

Woodborough Parish Rooms

The Parish Rooms Management Committee would welcome one or two more volunteers to help with the upkeep of the garden and other low level maintenance (aka odd jobs!)

Please contact the Clerk to find out more.

Mobile Library

The mobile library visits Woodborough every fortnight and can be found in the Social Club car park from 2.25 until 3.45 every other Monday.

Further information about the mobile library service is available from Wiltshire Council

Bus services

Wiltshire Council has launched five new Wiltshire Connect bus services, making changes to the current bus network in the Pewsey Vale area.

The innovative new services include both on-demand and semi-flexible/timetabled buses, which can pick up and drop off passengers where they want to go, when they want to get there. The service uses brand new, accessible minibuses and ride bookings can be made with our new app or by calling our friendly booking team on 01225 712900.

Residents can find lots of information available about the new services and download the Wiltshire Connect app from our website at: www.wiltshireconnect.co.uk or by calling our friendly booking team on 01225 712900.

Pewsey has a mainline railway station, with direct trains to and from London. Pewsey and Devizes have onward bus services to Marlborough, Swindon, Salisbury, Trowbridge, Melksham and Bath.