The County of Wiltshire OS Grid Ref: SU000500
A land-locked county in the south-west of England which is bounded by Berkshire on the east and north-east, Dorset and Hampshire on the south and south-west and Somerset and Gloucestershire on the west and north-west. The county town is Salisbury.
Inkpen Beacon, the chalk eminence on the eastern borders of the county rises to a height of over 1,000 feet. | |
The centre of the county consists of a vast plain, known as Salisbury Plain, which is surrounded by hilly country; Cranborne Chase, the marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest being the chief ranges. Wiltshire is drained by the Bristol Avon, the Frome, the Hampshire Avon, the Kennet and their various headstreams. The county was once famous for its woodlands, some extansive tracts of which still remain.
Towns & Villages
Other Places in Wiltshire
Parish Churches
Rivers & Canals
WILTS & DORSET BUSES
| Surface Area 333056 hectares | | Population | | 1931 | 303260 | |  | | | | 1991 | 398673 | | | | 31.46% | | 2001 | 432973 | | | | 8.6% | | Population Density 1.3 / hectare |
WILTSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
DISTRICT COUNCILS
NORTH WILTSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
CORSHAM CALNE CHIPPENHAM MALMESBURY MELKSHAM WOOTTON BASSETT
Allotments Arts Cemeteries & Crematoria Council Tax Collection Economic Development
Electoral Registration Emergency Planning Environmental Services Housing
Planning Recreation Transport
WEST WILTSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
KENNET DISTRICT COUNCIL
BOROUGH COUNCILS
SALISBURY DISTRICT COUNCIL
SWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL
PARLIAMENT
Gloucestershire County Council
Cotswold District Council |
South Gloucestershire District Council
| 642 | | Establishment of a hermitage on the site of modern Malmesbury (Wilts.) by the Irish monk Maildub or Maidulph | | BAAAGCMT | | 676 | | Aldelm founds a religious community at Malmesbury (Wilts.) | | BAAAGCBQ BAAAGCMT | | 709.May.25 | | Death of St Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (Wessex), at Doulting in Somerset
His body was carried back to the Abbey he founded at Malmesbury for burial | | BAAAGCBG BAAAGCBS BAAAGBHZ BAAAGCBQ BAAAGCMT BAAAGEEC | | 878.May | | Alfred the Great rallied Somerset and Wiltshire and defeated the Danes at the Battle
of Ednington nr Chippenham, Wilts. Guthrum the Danish leader was baptized as a Christian by the Peace
of Wedmore | | BAAAGDAG BAAAGBPR BAAAGCBS BAAAGDDL BAAAGDDN BAAAGEFP BAAAGEFQ BAAAGGAI | | 981 | | Death of Elfstan, Bishop of Wiltshire; succeeded by Wulfgar (ASC)
Elfstan buried at the minster Abingdon | | | | 1003 | | Danish raiders enter Wiltshire (ASC)
Wessex force gathered from Witls. and Hants. to meet the Danes retreat through treachery of Ealdorman Elfric | | BAAAGCEG BAAAGCBS BAAAGEEN BAAAGDDL BAAAGDDN | | 1006 | | Britwald becomes Bishop of Wiltshire (ASC) | | | | 1010 | | Danes in control of East Anglia, the SE, Hampshire and much of Wiltshire (ASC) | | BAAAGCEG BAAAGDDL BAAAGDDN | | 1602 | | English Fleet capture Portuguese treasure ship | | BAAAGCLM | | 1646.Jun.24 | | Surrender of Oxford and Faringdon to Parliamentary forces (Fairfax and Cromwell) effectively ends the Civil War
]]or 20th ???[[ Cromwell uses his influence in favor of granting lenient terms
Following the surrender, Royalist forces held prisoner in Wiltshire were released and allowed to return to their homes | | BAAAGEED BAAAGEFZ BAAAGCAP | | 1810 | | Kennet and Avon Canal opened from Bath to Newbury, linking the Bristol Channel to the Thames at Reading | | BAAAGCJV BAAAGCXC BAAAGDEZ BAAAGEDZ BAAAGCUI BAAAGEII BAAAGEHZ BAAAGEIS | | 1836 | | Work starts on the 2-mile-long Box Railway Tunnel of the
GWR between Corsham Box in Wiltshire
The longest railway tunnel in Europe at the time | | BAAAGDDU BAAAGDEX BAAAGCOL BAAAGEDX BAAAGEDY BAAAGBEG | | 1841.Jun.14 | | Opening of the GWR London to Bristol railway line, the first train reaching Bristol in 4 hours and travelling on to Bridgewater on the Bristol to Exeter line.
Opening of the railway rapidly caused a drop in traffic on the Kennet and Avon Canal | | BAAAGCJV BAAAGCOL BAAAGDDU BAAAGEDG BAAAGCEE BAAAGDEZ BAAAGEDZ BAAAGDZD BAAAGDKN | | 1841.Jun.30 | | Opening of the record-breaking 2-mile-long Box Railway Tunnel of the
GWR between Corsham and Box in Wiltshire without any ceremony because of the horendous loss of life during its construction | | BAAAGDDU BAAAGEDX BAAAGCOL BAAAGEDY BAAAGBEG | | 1843 | | The GWR\'s workshops at Swindon come into operation | | BAAAGDDU BAAAGCFQ BAAAGCOL | | 1853 | | Foundation of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society | | | | 1873 | | Foundation of the Wiltshire Heritage Museum | | BAAAGDYA | | 1914 | | Wilts and Berkshire Canal abandoned by Act of Parliament | | BAAAGCWT | | 1943.Nov | | Wiltshire village of Imber evacuated for D-Day excercises
The villagers were never allowed to return | | | | 1950.May.31 | | Docks and Inland Waterways Executive closes the Kennet and Avon Canal until further notice | | BAAAGCJV BAAAGDHF BAAAGCXC | | 1972 | | Wroughton airfield (Wilts.) becomes RN Aircraft Yard Wroughton when the Royal Navy becomes responsible for maintianing aircraft for all three services | | BAAAGCFE | | 1983 | | Closure of the Harris bacon factory at Calne (Wilts.) - by far the town\'s largest employer | | BAAAGCMS | | 1989 | | Decommissioning of the Burlington nuclear bunker near Corsham in Wilts. built in the 1950s
Thesite continuestobe maintained by a smallnumberof staff at acost of about �1-milliona year | | BAAAGBJJ BAAAGEDX | | 1990.Jul | | Foundation of Trowbridge Museum | | BAAAGDCL BAAAGDAD BAAAGDYA | | 2004.Apr.09 | | Suspicious disappearance of 21-year-old nursery nurse, Amanda Edwards, from Purton in Wilts.
She disappeared after dropping her boyfriend off in Calne, her car was discovered by her family abandoned in a car park at Asda later in the day. Fears for her safety grew when it was found that her mobile telephone was switched off and her bank account had not been touched | | BAAAGEGB BAAAGCMT BAAAGCMS BAAAGEDT BAAAGCFQ BAAAGGAG BAAAGega | | 2004.Apr.16 | | Doscovery of the body of missing Wilts. nursery nurse, Amanda Edwards on a building site at The Knoll in Malmesbury
Police also discover the body of 48-year-old Ian Cortis, her murderer, released from custody after questioning the previous day | | BAAAGEGB BAAAGCMT BAAAGCMS BAAAGEDT BAAAGCFQ BAAAGGAG BAAAGega BAAAGEGA |
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The Parliamentary Gazeteer of England and Wales, 1840-1843
, publisher A Fullerton and Co., 1843
The Buildings of England: Wiltshire
by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963
Wiltshire Bibliography
by EH Goddard, publisher Wiltshire Education Committee, 1929
Wessex Before the Celts
The "Ancient Peoples and Places" series
by JFS Stone, 1958
Wiltshire: the Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F.R.S., A.D. 1659-70
, ed. JE Jackson, 1862
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
, 1954-
The History of Modern Wiltshire
by Sir RC Hoare et al., 1822-44
6 volumes.
The Ancient History of South Wiltshire
by Sir RC Hoare, 1812-21
2 volumes.
Victoria History of Wiltshire
, ed. RB Pugh and E Crittall, 1953-
The Wiltshire Woollen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by GD Ramsay, 1943
The Land of Britain pt. 87: Wiltshire
, ed. LD Stamp, 1940
Rural England
, ed. Joan Thirsk, publisher Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN0198606191
Curiosities of Wiltshire
by Michael Watson, publisher SB Publications, ISBN1857700619
The life of Wiltshire people over the past 5,000 years.
Ghosts of Wiltshire
by Peter Underwood, publisher Bossiney Books, St Teath, Bodmin, Cornwall, 1989, ISBN0948158549
Studying Wiltshire Information for Local Historians
by John Chandler, publisher Library and Museum Service, Trowbridge, 1982, ISBN0860800938
Tales of Old Wiltshire
by Cecilia Millson, publisher Countryside Books, Newbury, Berks., 1982, ISBN0905392124
The Illustrated Portrait of Wiltshire
by Pamela Street, publisher St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 1986, ISBN0709025769
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