Talk:Marlborough, Wiltshire

message: I have removed the following text added by User:86.15.233.181 as it is not directly relevant on a page about the town of Marlborough.  If it should go anywhere (highly unlikely I would think, without some heavy editing) it should probably go on Kennet District Council.
:Kennet District Council is the local authority and is not generally a popular council as they adopt policies that disadvantage and fail to consult with their council tax payers.
:The Council is now generally perceived as pompous and arrogant which is far from its original roots as a small friendly council; senior management is aloof and detached and have been in their current posts far too long. A change of senior management would be a significant advantage both economically, culturally and socially.
:Significant change is desperately required for this organisation.
I hope this was the right thing to do.  Thanks -- Muntfish 11:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV remarks about Kennet District Council 

message: The main thing to establish in the mind of the reader is that the first syllable has the vowel from "call" not (non-rhotic) "Carl". This seems to be a frequent mistake by people unfamiliar with the town. Beyond that though, I'm curious as to whether the local pronunciation ought to be given as [ˈmɔːrlbrə] or if rhoticity has faded from the area. Perhaps older speakers say it this way? To be clear, this means that they would pronounce the "r" in the first syllable, in the same way that a West Country pronunciation of "farmer" contains two "r" sounds while someone from non-rhotic southern England has none in that word. Old Man of Storr (talk) 08:06, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: The entry that states that Gordon Richards is buried in St Mary's is factually wrong. Sir Gordon's grave is very close to that of my grandparents in the 'New' cemetery on the Common. I would like to have this corrected. If tthere is no objection in a few weeks then I shall do so myself.--SouthernFrog (talk) 21:31, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For this we have probably Sir Gordon's otherwise excellent article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to blame for giving currency to this misconception. Its editors are open to approaches from the public that with substantiation seek to correct their published information.Cloptonson (talk) 09:17, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gordon Richards buried in St Mary's? 

message: Those with a better archaelogical grounding than myself may wish to incorporate some of the new information reported in this BBC article (and elsewhere?). Is the Mound yet sufficiently notable to merit its own article? I have seen a suggestion in some archeologically oriented book (can't remember which, possibly one by Julian Cope's) that Silbury Hill was modelled on the slightly earlier(?) Mound. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.201.110.164 (talk) 16:46, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always understood that the Mound is the remnant of the old Motte and Bailey castle and is closely linked to King John.  Silbury Hill is way older.  Is the suggestion that there was something there from neolithic times as well?  --Snowded TALK  16:52, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is this report from the BBC website Marlborough Mound: 'Merlin's burial place' built in 2400 BC, May 31 2011. Dabbler (talk) 17:17, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New findings about the Mound 

message: I would appreciate some help with this move; there are a lot of incoming links to Marlborough; see here. I'd like that list to be a lot smaller before I do the move itself. I think generally all or most of those should be pipe-redirected to Marlborough, Wiltshire. I'll work on them but would appreciate any help! Thanks, ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 17:28, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok; we're done. Thanks. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 16:42, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with move 

message: The following text has been moved from the Marlborough College article as it did not fit there. Please see if it fits in this article better.
Archaeomythologists using mythology as historical fact to date sites have argued that Marlborough is named after a prehistoric Merlin. Prior to 2011 some, including Ed Joyce in 'The Key to Camelot', had stated that the connection of Arthurian Mythology to sites dated to 2400 - 2300 BC indicated that there had been an Arthur and a Merlin figure living in Britain during this period. Historians had countered suggesting that the mound was dated to the Norman period and that there was no genuine connection to a prehistoric Merlin figure. Carbon dating proved that the archaeomythologists suggested date correct. A legend in Geoffrey of Monmouth states that bluestones at Stonehenge were brought by Merlin to Stonehenge. These stones have also been dated to 2300 -2400 BC, however many archaeologists state that this is coincidental.
A similar dispute occurred over the dating of the golden Rillaton and Ringlemere cups. There were initially dated to 1600 BC by the British Museum however the carbon dating of the Ringlemere barrow site showed that it was from 2300 - 2400BC. Museum authorities continue to argue that the cup dates from around 1600 BC and that the site was dug into in the later period and deposited as a votive offering. The dating of this artefact is still disputed with leading authorities arguing that the dating of golden cups reminiscent of the Arthurian grail to sites with the Arthurian name is a coincidence. 
Dabbler (talk) 17:31, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Text moved from [[Marlborough College]]

message: In the article both Marlborough Bucket and burial bucket are italicized. Obviously the author thinks they are important. I was unable to find a definitive answer to the question, "Were burial buckets use as coffins?" Or to the question, "Were burial buckets found in graves as treasures, but empty of human remains?"  Nick Beeson (talk) 13:56, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elucidate tag 

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thread_title:  The West Country Challenge 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've tagged the "marl" derivation of the town's placename as . As the text suggests, it's "plausible", or even attractive, but "plausible" shouldn't get it into Wikipedia without a reliable source. Of the sources I've seen the most common origin is from the barrow standing in the town, belonging to a character called Maerla (rather than the more common Saxon burh). This is in Victoria County History. Other sources suggest derivation from the meargealla  plant.
--217.155.32.221 (talk) 17:18, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Refs now supplied for both possibilities.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 09:25, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plausible derivation 

message: As the yearly Marlborough Jazz Festival no longer runs, this should be reflected in the content of the page.
82.21.243.202 (talk) 09:36, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, updated. --Wire723 (talk) 13:01, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marlborough Jazz festival