Thank you visiting Potternes Web Site and I hope you find it interesting.
People have lived here for around 10,000 years, about twice as long as Stonehenge. This is because in the immediate area around the village has a number of springs, or pots, which supply water no matter how dry the weather conditions. These Pots are thought to have given the Village its name.
The oldest building in the Village is the Parish Church which was built during the 13th Century in an early English style. It is a large church for a village of this size the Bishops of Salisbury owned a lot of land in the area in the Middle Ages and had a palace here. The church contains a unique 8th Century font that came from a long lost Saxon church in Potterne.
The building remains a place of worship to this day is greatly loved by the people of the village. There are other buildings from the Middle Ages of note, but Potterne is a living and developing community in touch with both its history and its present, and looking to the future.
Having visited the Web Site, I hope you will also visit the village and enjoy all it has to offer. You will receive a warm welcome.
