Weird 10 will be held over two days at the Athenaeum Theatre in the small town of Warminster, once the UFO capital of the UK, and possibly the world, with over 5000 sightings reported over a ten year period.
Warminster nestles in the beautiful rural countryside of Wiltshire, within easy striking distance of important ancient monuments, including Stonehenge, Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill. The impressive Iron Age hill forts of Battlesbury and Scratchbury are also close by.
You will also be able to join the annual Warminster Sky Watch at the fabled Cradle Hill and participate in a paranormal investigation
The area the theatre stands on was not developed until the middle ages and stood on the eastern fringes of the market town. There has been speculation for many centuries that the medieval Kyngeston Manor stood on or near the site, formerly known as Cornhylle, or even been part of the earlier properties. There is currently no known evidence to support these rumours.
The first recorded evidence for the site is 1692, when the 1st Viscount Weymouth leased a property to Alice Exton. Three years later The Search Hoop Inn is first recorded as standing on the site. This Inn and subsequent buildings share common foundations. The Inn serves travellers and local corn merchants who attend the bustling Saturday corn market up until a fire in 1817 that destroys all, or part of the buildings on the site - which include outhouses, stables and a malthouse. The following year the Inn is rebuilt by Samuel Provis and renamed the London Inn. This property becomes a noted coaching point for the town, as well as a posting point, and briefly home of the the Inspector in charge of the newly established County Police 1840 - 42.
The Athenaeum is situated on the High Street in Warminster, close to the town centre car park. The central bus station and railway station are within walking distance.
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