Woodford
Woodford is a civil parish in southern-central Wiltshire, England, on the west bank of the Salisbury Avon, about 4 miles north of Salisbury. Its settlements are the villages of Lower Woodford, Middle Woodford and Upper Woodford, the last of which is the largest of the three.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 487 residents
- Description: civil parish in Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Woodford (civil parish), Wiltshire” and “Woodford, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Old Sarum.
Old Sarum
Archaeological site
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Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country. Old Sarum is situated 2 miles southeast of Woodford.
Old Sarum Cathedral
Archaeological site
Photo: Bob Castle, Public domain.
Old Sarum Cathedral was a Catholic and Norman cathedral at old Salisbury, England, now known as Old Sarum, between 1092 and 1220. Only its foundations remain, in the north-west quadrant of the circular outer bailey of the site, about 2 miles north of its 13th-century replacement, Salisbury Cathedral. Old Sarum Cathedral is situated 2 miles southeast of Woodford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stratford-sub-Castle and Wilton.
Stratford-sub-Castle
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stratford-sub-Castle in Wiltshire, England, was anciently a separate village and civil parish, but is now in Salisbury. At approximately 170 ft above sea level, it is dominated to the east by the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, within the boundaries of which a Norman castle was built. Stratford-sub-Castle is situated 2 miles southeast of Woodford.
Wilton
Town
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Wilton is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Lying about 3 miles west of the city of Salisbury, and until 1889 the county town of Wiltshire, it has a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons. Wilton is situated 3 miles southwest of Woodford.
Bemerton
Suburb
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bemerton, once a rural hamlet and later a civil parish to the west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, is now a suburb of that city. Modern-day Bemerton has areas known as Bemerton Heath, Bemerton Village and Lower Bemerton. Bemerton is situated 3 miles south of Woodford.
Woodford
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Woodford, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Woodford” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Woodford (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Woodford”
- Irish: “Woodford”
- Italian: “Woodford”
- Japanese: “ウッドフォード”
- Swedish: “Woodford (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Woodford, Wiltshire”
- Turkish: “Woodford, Wiltshire”
- “Woodford”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Smithen Down and Old Sarum Castle.
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