Pewsey

The 1999 Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling Eden Valley, so called because the rows of vines follow the contours of the hillside, was originally released with five years of age on it.

Australian Riesling – Can it age? – Grosset, Steingarten and Leo Buring | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

The 1980 Pewsey Vale Rhine Riesling Eden, golden in color, was interesting but definitely in the “drink now” part of its bottle evolution.

Australian Riesling – Can it age? – Grosset, Steingarten and Leo Buring | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Later, when the playwright was working on the script in London with Rylance, Butterworth and the director, Ian Rickson, sent the actor down to Pewsey to meet the original Byron in the flesh.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

But for Lay, Pewsey's fortuitous location is simply a matter of breathing clean air.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

On Friday evening, the prototype Rooster was back in the saloon bar of the Moonrakers pub in Pewsey, Wiltshire, wearing a battered hat and sporting a big, fresh graze on his nose.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

During the period when Butterworth stayed in Pewsey, Lay was living, after a divorce, in a caravan amid the trees, "shooting rabbits on the railway tracks".

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

It is the kind of behaviour that has resulted in bans, or at least two-pint curfews, at several of Pewsey's pubs.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

A similar case is to be found in the village of Charlton, between Pewsey and Devizes, Wiltshire.

The Cheshire cat 2009

Pewsey sits close to Salisbury Plain, between Stonehenge and Wootton Bassett, two place names that together have the power to summon up an idea of what England used to mean and what it means now.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011

Renamed Flintock, Pewsey became the notional Jerusalem in the title of the play, and Lay, as Rooster, was transformed into an almost allegorical figure.

At home in Jerusalem: Micky Lay, the real-life rebel behind the role that wowed Broadway 2011