Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county it borders those of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and 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). A local name for a Wiltshire native is moonraker.

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, Larkhill, Ludgershall
• Malmesbury, Manton, Marlborough, Marston, Marston Meysey, Marten, Melksham, Mere
• Neston, North Tidworth
• Odstock
• Pewsey
• Salisbury
• Swindon
• Tiddleywink, Tidworth, Trowbridge
• Whaddon, Wilton, Wilton, Wootton Bassett

• Avebury Circle, 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
• White horses of Wiltshire