Alix Chidley-Uttley

Hi, I’m Alix, this is my website.

Growing up on a farm in a farming family, my life has been a medley of Shropshire landscape, local myths, ghost stories, lots of castles, music lessons, many books, so many sisters (!), old films, Oliver Reed and animals, animals, animals - all varieties and some better behaved than others.a few things more.

After a time at the Royal Agricultural College (seems a long time ago now); working for different wine merchants; living in Bristol, Ireland and London, I am now back in my home county. I don’t think there is anywhere I could have a greater affection for. I work for the old independent wine merchants, Tanners, in Shrewsbury, and on the family farm in South Shropshire. I love writing and painting. My podcast, The Shropshire Witches, with Amy Boucher, is gathering an ever-increasing audience (currently over 4000 downloads a month), Insta is where I post history oddities and bobbities, and I write for Countryside Magazine among others. I can almost certainly always be found amongst sheep. This site is a big part of that. When I’m not working, I’m usually walking our beloved little old terrier, Serge.

SERGE 3.05.25 R.I.P — big strong boy, good lad x

I live in rural South Shropshire with my fiancé, Adam, and our new Cavalier KC, Bertrand ‘Berky’ Bums, who rooms with Thomas Aquinas and the Mica Pipney-Houston-Maurice gang (Meewah, Charlie Chich and Kush).

Thanks for visiting, Alix.