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Wiltshire is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county, it is landlocked and borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. The county is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys.
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AMESBURY Hotels & AccommodationAmesbury is a town eight miles north of Salisbury. Stonehenge is in the parish of Amesbury. In the Arthurian legend: the convent to which Guinevere retired was said to have been the one at Amesbury. The present village was founded in 979, although the site had already been settled as the location of this convent ... |
BRADFORD ON AVON Hotels & AccommodationBradford on Avon (sometimes Bradford-on-Avon) is a town in west Wiltshire, England. It is the smallest of the five towns in West Wiltshire. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists. The history of the town can be traced back to Roman origins ... |
CASTLE COMBE Hotels & AccommodationCastle Combe is a small village in Wiltshire, England, with a population of about 350. It is renowned for its attractiveness and tranquillity, and for fine buildings including the medieval church. The fourteenth century Market Cross, erected when the privilege to hold a weekly market in Castle Combe was granted ... |
CHIPPENHAM Hotels & AccommodationChippenham is a market town in Wiltshire, England, some 21 km (13 miles) east of Bath and 163 km (96 miles) west of London. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon and is believed to have existed as some form of settlement since before Roman times. Alfred the Great had a hunting lodge there ... |
CORSHAM Hotels & AccommodationCorsham is a small medieval town in northwest Wiltshire, at the southwestern extreme of the Cotswolds, between Bath and Chippenham. Corsham was a centre for the wool industry, and a source for quarrying Bath stone. It includes numerous historic buildings, such as the stately home of Corsham Court ... |
CRICKLADE Hotels & AccommodationCricklade is a small town in north Wiltshire in England, on the River Thames, situated midway between Swindon and Cirencester. There is a large clock, known as the Jubilee clock, which was erected in 1898 in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the preceding year. It stands where the Town Cross once stood ... |
DEVIZES Hotels & AccommodationA Norman castle was built in Devizes by Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury in 1080, and as such, the town does not feature in the Domesday Book. Because the castle was located on the boundaries of the manors of Rowde, Bishops Cannings and Potterne it became known as the castrum ad divisas or the castle at the boundaries ... |
MALMESBURY Hotels & AccommodationMalmesbury is a south Cotswold town and civil parish in south west England in the county of Wiltshire. The town is close to Cirencester, Chippenham and Swindon and surrounded by rivers on three sides. Malmesbury is a hilltop town, shaped by the geography carved by two rivers ... |
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MARLBOROUGH Hotels & Accommodation Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. The first sign of human habitation is the pre-historic mound in the grounds of Marlborough College. It is possibly of similar age to the larger Silbury Hill five miles to the west. Legend has it that the Mound is the burial site of Merlin ... |
MELKSHAM Hotels & AccommodationMelksham is a medium-sized English town, lying on the River Avon. The town of Melksham developed at a ford across the River Avon and the name is presumed to derive from MEOLC, the Old English for milk and from HAM, a village. It was a royal estate at the time of the Norman Conquest ... |
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SALISBURY Hotels & Accommodation Salisbury is a key centre of the art community, with many galleries situated in the city centre. Famous artists such as Bill Toop are locals in the area, and renowned impressionists such as John Constable and Monet have travelled from afar to paint the divine cathedral and the grounds ... |
SUTTON BENGER Hotels & AccommodationSutton Benger is a small village 5 miles North East of Chippenham. For the last few summers Sutton Benger has been the location of a popular local music event. It is also the village that was the home of shopkeeper Joseph Fry founder of the Fry, Vaughan and Co. chocolate factory ... |
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SWINDON Hotels & Accommodation Swindon is a town in Wiltshire. The town is approximately midway between Bristol and Reading and some 81 miles west of London, all on the main rail line using Swindon station. It was a designated 'Expanded' Town under the Town Development Act 1952, which led to a vast increase in the population ... |
TROWBRIDGE Hotels & AccommodationTrowbridge is situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, about ten miles south east of Bath. Neighbouring towns and villages include Bradford on Avon, Westbury, Melksham, Devizes, Hilperton and Semington. The name of the town comes from a root meaning Tree Bridge, referring to the first bridge over the River Biss ... |
WOOTTON BASSETT Hotels & AccommodationWootton Bassett is a small market town located in northern Wiltshire. The year 681AD is usually taken as the starting point for recorded history of Wootton Bassett, then known as Wodeton, it being referred to in that year in a Malmesbury Abbey charter granting land to the Abbot ... |
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