Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a large southern English county. It borders Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset (Formerly Avon), South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It also contains the unitary authority of Swindon. Wiltshire is a mostly rural landscape with large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland. A large part of the county is taken up by Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used mainly by farmers and the British Army. The county had a population of 564,000 in 1991 and a size of 858,931 acres (3475.97 sq km).

Table of contents

1 Towns and villages 2 Other places of interest 3 External links

Towns and villages

• Alderbury, Amesbury, Avebury
• Bradford-on-Avon, Burbage
• Calne, Castle Combe, Chippenham, Chisbury, Corsham, Cricklade
• Devizes, Downton, Durrington
• Holt, Hungerford
• Lacock
• Malmesbury, Manton, Marlborough, Marston, Marston Meysey, Marten, Melksham, Mere
• Neston, North Tidworth
• Odstock
• Pewsey
• Salisbury
• Swindon
• Tiddleywink, Trowbridge
• Whaddon, Wilton, Wilton

A bridge over the river Avon at Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire
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Other places of interest

• Avebury Cicle, neolithic stone circle
• Barbury Castle
• Bowood House
• Castle Combe
• Castle Hill, Mere
• Chisbury Chapel
• Cranborne Chase
• Great Chalfield Manor
• Kennet and Avon Canal
• Lacock Abbey
• Old Sarum, the former cathedral
• Old Wardour Castle
• Stonehenge
• Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage railway
• The Thames Path, a long distance footpath
• Westwood Manor
• Woodhenge
• Wilton House
• Wilton Windmill

• John Aubrey's The Natural History of Wiltshire