A GREAT-GRANDSON of Winston Churchill is leading a battle to save his corner of the English countryside from solar farm developers.
Jack Churchill, 38, has launched the Wake Up Wiltshire campaign in his home village of Seend. It is situated near farmland where energy firms want to erect hundreds of solar panels, including one solar farm that would be the largest in Britain.
“Within five miles of our hilltop village we have 505 [solar] acres now that are constructed, in planning or proposed,” Churchill said. “There is something of a goldrush happening in our area.”
Seend, midway between Devizes and Trowbridge, was a refuge for the author Virginia Woolf who frequently stayed at Cleeve House, her sister’s home, and who wrote about the village in her diaries.
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