Sherston Avon
Sherston may refer to: * Sherston, Wiltshire, a village in England * Sherston Software, publisher of educational games * The Sherston trilogy The Sherston trilogy is a series of books by the English poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon, consisting of ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'', '' Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'', and ''Sherston's Progress''. They are named after the protagonist, ...

Sherston, Wiltshire
Sherston is a village and civil parish about west of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England. The parish is bounded to the north by the county boundary with Gloucestershire, and to the southeast by the Fosse Way, a Roman road. The parish includes the hamlets of Easton Town, immediately east of Sherston; Pinkney, further east along the Malmesbury road; and Willesley, to the north. The infant River Avon passes Sherston, Easton Town and Pinkney, on its way to Malmesbury. The parish lies within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History The Fosse Way, a major Roman road, passes nearby and forms the southeastern boundary of the modern parish. A Romano-British farmhouse from around 350 was discovered at Vancelettes Farm, north of Sherston village. The earliest surviving record of Sherston, then called ''Scorranstone'', is an Anglo-Saxon document of 896. In 1016, a battle between Cnut the Great and a West Saxon army on the hills around Sherston may have involved a loc ...
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Sherston Software
Sherston Software, also known as Sherston Publishing Group, was a British software publisher producing educational games and learning resources. Two teachers, Bill and Lou Bonham, started making games for the BBC Micro in 1983 and established Sherston Software Limited in 1984. In 2003, Bill and Lou sold Sherston to a four-man management team, which led to the company being called Sherston Publishing Group. In 2008, the offices in Angel House, Sherston, Wiltshire also became home to BLi Education which owned the brands TAG Learning, Economatics Education and SEMERC. TAG Developments (based in Kennington, London) was also part of the group and produced MAPS – Managed Assessment and ePortfolio System – which featured some Sherston software content. In difficult trading conditions in the education market in 2010 and 2011, BLi Education went into administration but many of the assets were acquired by Sherston Publishing Group. Sherston employed developers in India. An associate c ...
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