Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a large, mostly rural county in the eastern part of the West Country of southern England. Wiltshire features large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland, including Salisbury Plain, a large expanse of downland of which part is famously used as a training area by the British Army.- County with about 768,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 520 feet (160 metres)
- …is abbreviated as “WIL”
- Also known as“County of Wiltshire”“Wilts”
Places of Interest
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Salisbury Plain Training Area
Military installation
The Salisbury Plain Training Area is a large expanse…
White Barrow
White Barrow is a large Neolithic long barrow just…
Villages in the Area
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Larkhill
Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England.
Wiltshire
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
51.25° or 51° 15′ north
Longitude
-1.9167° or 1° 55′ west
UN/LOCODE
GB WIE
Open location code
9C3W732M+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = county
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Wiltshire” goes by many names.
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Localities in the Area
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