In deepest Wiltshire, I found an architectural feat as significant as Stonehenge or Salisbury Cathedral.Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
Mr Orbach's Wiltshire combines Pevsnerian scholarship with a sure eye, a keen Betjemanian sense of place and a warm heart for the architectural heritage of his adopted county.Timothy Mowl, Country Life
A work which carries on the great traditions of Pevsners, and retains the strengths of the first two Wiltshire volumes, while augmenting them with the perceptions and descriptions generated by a fresh eye on the county's buildingsRichard Deane, Salisbury Civic Society
Orbach retains the use of Pevner's theme-based approach to the countyBut he also innovates: whilst previous editions have been presented on manorial and municipal lines, Orbach introduces new themes like transport which allow him to expand more comprehensively on the importance of the Box Tunnel or Dundas' aqueduct, for instance.Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, Friends of Friendless Churches
Orbachs is a fine work of burrowing and scholarship. He writes with energy. His text is often elliptical...a sort of shorthand that lends the book an enjoyable immediacy.Jonathan Meades, London Review of Books
Clear and informativeOrbach gives a detailed account of the history, archaeology and, of course, above all surviving buildings of Old Sarum.Graham Kent, Journal of Historic Buildings and Places
