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The many villages of Wiltshire had characteristics peculiar each to themselves. Sometimes a village and its people were known for being hard-headed, of another for wittiness, bluntness, sturdy independence, soberness, noise, quiet, or political fervor, and even their fighting spirit. Bromham was known for its inquisitiveness would seem to apply to the inhabitants there. And I guess the Amor’s somewhat? It is said that you can not pass through Bromham on foot without being accosted by someone or other requiring to know where you are bound for, and what the nature of your business might be? While there in Bromham the first time I was walking down the street across from the church of Saint Nicholas and I was addressed by someone -a total stranger- smilingly with a cheery: Hello! where you be off to this way, then?
North Wiltshire was always famed for its bacon; and it was a chief part of the staple food, of farmers and laborers, too. Our family continues to cure bacon and port when they cam to Missouri and Southern Cured, or Missouri Sugar Cured Hams are still famous in the US today. The farmers gave the inferior parts away to the laborers, together with the imperfect cheeses. Just like in Missouri and Lafayette County, spoken dialect survives longest in the villages, though they still remain in the larger provincial towns were the population has been more consistent. The dialect and its many quaintnesses and local variations, such as Yella, Yellack, Yellocks,Lacks and Locks, here, look and look you there, there look you. Old Elizabethan expressions made still survive, too, suchas, gad, begad, God’s truth, of this is God’s truth or Code struth.
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