DESTINATION WILTSHIRE

Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is famous as the location of Stonehenge stone circle and other ancient landmarks. The city of Salisbury is notable for its cathedral. The town of Mere Is the location of Stourhead, one of the most renowned English gardens.

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DISCOVER WILTSHIRE: Amesbury, Avebury, Bradford on Avon, Cherhill White Horse, Devizes, Malmesbury, Moonrakers, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, Stourhead, Trowbridge,

DISCOVER AMESBURY Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press—in 2002. The land around Amesbury has been settled since prehistoric times, evidenced by the monument of Stonehenge ...

AVEBURY HENGE & STONE CIRCLES Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name. It is one of the finest and largest Neolithic monuments in Europe dating to around 5000 years ago. It is older than the megalithic stages of Stonehenge. Avebury is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a World Heritage Site, and a National Trust property ...

DISCOVER BRADFORD ON AVON The earliest evidence of habitation is fragments of Roman settlements above the town. In particular, archaeological digs have revealed the remains of a large Roman villa with a well-preserved mosaic on the playing fields of St Laurence School. The centre of the town grew up around the ford across the river Avon, hence the origin of the town's name (Broad-Ford) ...

CHERHILL WHITE HORSE The Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in the county of Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses to be seen around Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older. The figure is also sometimes called the Oldbury White Horse ...

DISCOVER DEVIZES From the 16th century Devizes became known for its textiles, initially white woollen broadcloth but later the manufacture of serge, drugget, felt and cassimere or Zephyr cloth. In the early 18th century Devizes held the largest corn market in the West Country of England and also traded hops, cattle, horses and various cloth ...

DISCOVER MALMESBURY Malmesbury is a market town and civil parish located in the southern Cotswolds in the county of Wiltshire, England. Historically Malmesbury was a major centre for learning and home to the famous Malmesbury Abbey. A hotel adjacent to the abbey, The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant, was founded in 1220, and is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England ...

MOONRAKERS The local nickname for Wiltshire natives is moonrakers. This originated from a story of smugglers who managed to hide smuggled goods in a village pond. When confronted by the excise men they raked the surface in order to make ripples, and claimed that they were trying to rake in a large round cheese visible in the pond, really a reflection of the full moon ...

OLD SARUM Old Sarum (Latin: Sorbiodunum) is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England. The site contains evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. Old Sarum is mentioned in of the earliest records in the country. It is located on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury adjacent to the A345 road. Old Sarum was originally an Iron age hill fort ...

DISCOVER SALISBURY Salisbury holds a market on Tuesdays and Saturdays and has held markets regularly since 1227. In the 15th century the Market Place was dotted with stone crosses marking the centres for certain trades and goods. Today only the Poultry Cross remains, to which flying buttresses were added in 1852. The other crosses were for Livestock, Cheese & Milk and Wool & Yarn ...

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL Salisbury Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral, considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the UK (123m/404 ft) and the Tower Tour shows the interior of the hollow spire, with its ancient wood scaffolding, can be viewed ...

SALISBURY PLAIN Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in central southern England covering 300 square miles. It is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, with a little in Hampshire. The plain is famous for its rich archaeology, including Stonehenge, one of England's best known landmarks ...

STONEHENGE Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds...

STOURHEAD ESTATE & GARDENS Stourhead is a 2,650 acre estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland. Owned by the National Trust since 1946, the gardens were laid out between 1741 and 1780 in a classical 18th-century design set around a large lake ...

DISCOVER TROWBRIDGE Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, situated on the River Biss in the west of the county. The Kennet and Avon canal runs to the north and played a large part in the development of the town as it allowed coal to be transported from Somerset. There is evidence that the land on which Trowbridge is built was being farmed more than 3,000 years ago ...

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