What the heck is a lek?
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
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Discover the enchanting history of Lydiard House – a striking Grade I listed building at the heart of Lydiard Park. Wander through the elegant State Rooms, where ornate plasterwork and original family furnishings are on display alongside portraits and photographs of the St John family, who lived here from Elizabethan times.
Address: Lydiard House Museum, Lydiard Green, Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon, SN5 3PA
Wessex Museums joins the International Carbon Literacy Action Day, a global event for climate education and action.
Exhibition explores the stories of Black servicemen from WWI and WWII in Wiltshire. At Lydiard House Museum until December 2024.
In June, the staff of the seven partnership museums gathered at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway to celebrate the beginning of another exciting three years of being
In April 2023, Wessex Museums welcomed the three Swindon Museums into its partnership: Lydiard House, Museum & Art Swindon and STEAM.
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!