Wiltshire in Pictures: Steeds and sunrises

Salisbury hosted racing this week, with the famous cathedral providing a great backdrop

The memories of last weekend's dramatic summer solstice linger on, but life in Wiltshire keeps going.

Racing returned to Salisbury this week, and a festival in Chalke is offering visitors the chance to travel back in time.

Alongside these events, nature as - as ever - been putting on a show as the sunny days keep coming.

Time-travellers paradise: Chalke History Festival is on all this week, featuring more than 170 experts and numerous re-enactors. The first few days have school visits during the day.

Sublime solstice: While 25,000 went to Stonehenge for the summer solstice, a few thousand went to Avebury for the sunrise. However, the celebrations started very much in the dark and went past sunrise at the ancient site, where people gathered round with fire tricks and later on a sacred druid ceremony took place (below).

Job done: Local dignitaries, including local MP John Glen, could not resist recreating a certain well-known Beatles album cover when celebrating the £4.5 million revitalisation of Salisbury Railway Station forecourt.

Peaceful scenes: Stourhead near Warminster remains a popular place to visit - weather watcher Marciaspictures snapped this photo.

Wildflowers: Weather watcher CraigRich captured the ups and downs of a British summer near the village of West Dean.

Break in the clouds: Contributor Chully went out in the countryside near Calne to get this sunny moment.

Seeing stars in Trowbridge: The town's Civic Centre hosted more than 80 children and young people for the annual Star Awards – an event to honour the resilience, talent and triumphs of Wiltshire Council's children in care and care-experienced young people.