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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Stonehenge and Salisbury.
Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monument in a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The WHS is quite large and contains many other structures from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in the English county of Wiltshire, in the West Country at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is 13 km northwest of Salisbury.
Warminster
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Warminster is a delightful market town with a friendly population of around 18,000. The town has many interesting buildings, nearly all of which owe their existence to Warminster's great fame as a successful corn market for several centuries.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Swindon and Trowbridge.
Swindon
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Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Trowbridge
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Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England, situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies 8 miles south-east of Bath, 31 miles south-west of Swindon and 20 miles south-east of Bristol.
Marlborough
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Marlborough is a market town in Wiltshire, between Swindon and Amesbury. Marlborough retains a rustic charm with arcades, alleyways, coaching inns, half-timbered cottages and a church at each end of the high street.
Malmesbury
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Malmesbury is a charming little town in the Southern Cotswolds. Once a flourishing market town and centre for education, it's an attractive destination for travellers today.
Chippenham
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Chippenham is a market town in Wiltshire that has become a commuter town, with residents travelling to workplaces in Bath, Bristol, Swindon and even London.
Amesbury
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Amesbury is a town in Wiltshire, England. As the closest town to Stonehenge, it makes an excellent starting point for a visit to the ancient monument by car or on foot.
Bradford on Avon
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Bradford on Avon is a small country town in England between Bath and Trowbridge. The handsome buildings which climb up the hills from the 'broad ford' across the river are mostly Georgian, the legacy of a few hundred years of prosperity as a centre of a textile industry making fine woollen cloth from Cotswold sheep.
Devizes
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Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Wiltshire. It has nearly 500 listed buildings, some notable churches, a town hall and a green in the centre of the town.
Melksham
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Melksham is a small town in Wiltshire. It is not most people's idea of a tourist destination. Originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement Melksham became one of Wiltshire's industrial towns and grew on the back of the Avon rubber factory.
Castle Combe
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Castle Combe is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is around 5 miles north-west of Chippenham and 10 miles north-east of Bath.
Cricklade
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Cricklade is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire, England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester. It is the first downstream town on the Thames. The parish population at the 2011 census was 4,227.
Royal Wootton Bassett
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Royal Wootton Bassett is a small town in Wiltshire, England, not far from Swindon. It was founded in 681 as Wodeton, and gained the 'Royal' moniker in 2011 in recognition of the town's role in respectfully welcoming back deceased British troops from overseas.
Pewsey
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Pewsey is a large village in the county of Wiltshire, England. It is approximately 130km west of London.
Avebury
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Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, famous for its neolithic stone circle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The henge and stone circles are thought to date from about 2500 BC to 2000 BC and are roughly contemporary with the more famous Stonehenge 20 mi to the south.
Wroughton
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Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
Wiltshire
- Type: Region with 710,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county of England (use Q21694746 for administrative unitary authority)
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Wiltshire”, “County of Wilts”, “County of Wiltshire”, “WIL”, and “Wilts”
- Neighbors: Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wiltshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wiltshire”
- Arabic: “ويلتشاير”
- Arabic: “ويلتشر”
- Arabic: “ويلتشير”
- Armenian: “Ուիլթշիր”
- Armenian: “Ուիլտշիր”
- Asturian: “Wiltshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Uilts”
- Azerbaijani: “Uiltşir”
- Azerbaijani: “WIL”
- Balinese: “Wiltshire”
- Basque: “Wiltshire”
- Belarusian: “графства Уілтшыр”
- Belarusian: “Уілтшыр”
- Belarusian: “Ўілтшыр”
- Bengali: “উইল্টশায়ার”
- Breton: “Wiltshire”
- Bulgarian: “Уилтшър”
- Catalan: “Wiltshire”
- Cebuano: “Wiltshire”
- Central Kurdish: “ویڵتشایەر”
- Chinese: “Wiltshire”
- Chinese: “威尔特郡”
- Chinese: “威爾特郡”
- Chinese: “渭州郡”
- Cornish: “Wiltshire”
- Czech: “Wiltshire”
- Danish: “Wiltshire”
- Dutch: “Wiltshire”
- Esperanto: “Wiltshire”
- Estonian: “Wiltshire”
- Faroese: “Wiltshire”
- Finnish: “Wiltshire”
- French: “Wiltshire”
- Galician: “Wiltshire”
- Georgian: “უილტშირი”
- German: “Wiltshire”
- Greek: “Ουίλτσιρ”
- Gujarati: “વિલ્ટશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Wiltshire”
- Hebrew: “וילטשייר”
- Hindi: “विल्टशायर”
- Hungarian: “Wiltshire”
- Icelandic: “Wiltshire”
- Ido: “Wiltshire”
- Indonesian: “Wiltshire”
- Interlingua: “Wiltshire”
- Irish: “Wiltshire”
- Italian: “Wiltshire”
- Japanese: “ウィルトシャー”
- Kannada: “ವಿಲ್ಟ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “윌트셔주”
- Kurdish: “Wiltshire”
- Ladin: “Wiltshire”
- Latin: “Wiltoniensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Viltšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Viltšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Wiltshire”
- Macedonian: “Вилтшир”
- Manx: “Wiltshire”
- Marathi: “विल्टशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wiltshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiltshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wiltshire”
- Norwegian: “Wiltshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wiltshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wiltūnscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wiltūnsċīr”
- Ossetian: “Уилтшир”
- Persian: “ویلتشایر”
- Persian: “ویلتشر”
- Polish: “Wiltshire”
- Portuguese: “Wiltshire”
- Romanian: “Wiltshire”
- Russian: “Уилтшир”
- Scots: “Wiltshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wiltshire”
- Serbian: “Вилтшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wiltshire”
- Sicilian: “Wiltshire”
- Slovak: “Wiltshire”
- Slovenian: “Wiltshire”
- Spanish: “Condado de Wilts”
- Spanish: “Wiltshire”
- Swedish: “Wiltshire”
- Tajik: “Уилтшир”
- Tamil: “வில்ட்ஷயர்”
- Tatar: “Вилтшир”
- Telugu: “విల్ట్షైర్”
- Thai: “วิลต์เชอร์”
- Turkish: “Torensel Wiltshire Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Wiltshire”
- Ukrainian: “Вілтшир”
- Urdu: “ویلٹشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Wilt”
- Vietnamese: “Wiltshire”
- Volapük: “Wiltshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wiltshire”
- Welsh: “Wiltshire”
- Western Frisian: “Wiltshire”
- Western Panjabi: “ولٹشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “威尔特郡”
- Yiddish: “ווילטשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “渭州郡”
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