Wiltshire

Wiltshire (short: Wilts) is an English county. It borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. The county town is Trowbridge, in the west of the county at . The county covers 858,931 acres (3476 km²) also Trowbridge is the Capital of Wiltshire.

Settlements
Notable towns and cities in Wiltshire are:
 Bradford on Avon
 Calne
 Chippenham
 Devizes
 Malmesbury
 Marlborough
 Salisbury (city)
 Swindon
 Trowbridge
 Warminster
 Westbury

A full list of settlements is at List of places in Wiltshire.

Places of interest

Notable places of interest in Wiltshire are:
 Ashcombe House Historic house
 Avebury, Neolithic stone circle Accessible open space
 Avebury Manor & Garden
 Avon Valley Path Accessible open space
 Barbury Castle Country park
 Beckhampton Avenue
 Bentley Wood Accessible open space
 Bowood House Historic house
 Burlington, city-sized nuclear bunker
 Castle Combe
 Castle Hill, Mere Accessible open space
 Cherhill White Horse
 Chisbury Chapel
 Coate Water, East Swindon Country park
 Corsham Court Historic house
 Cotswold Water Park
 Courts Garden
 Creative Planet, Science Museum, Wroughton
 Crofton Pumping Station
 Edington Priory
 Fonthill Abbey
 Great Chalfield Manor
 Iford Manor and gardens Historic house
 Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes Museum
 King Alfred's Tower
 Lacock Abbey Littlecote House Historic house
 Longleat Safari Park Country parkHistoric house
 Ludgershall Castle, Ludgershall
 Lydiard Park and House, West Swindon. Country parkHistoric house
 Malmesbury Abbey
 Maud Heath's Causeway
 Mompesson House
 Old Sarum, the former cathedral Accessible open space English Heritage
 Old Wardour Castle
 Philipps House & Dinton Park
 Salisbury Cathedral
 Shearwater Lake
 Silbury Hill
 Stonehenge
 Stourhead
 Swindon Steam Railway Museum Heritage Railway
 Trafalgar House Historic house
 Wardour Castle
 West Kennet Long Barrow Accessible open space
 Westbury White Horse
 Westwood Manor
 Woodhenge Accessible open space
 Wilton House Historic house
 Wilton Windmill
 Wilts and Berks Canal
 Part of Win Green (shared with Dorset) Accessible open space
Notable areas of countryside in Wiltshire are:
 Cranborne Chase Accessible open space
 Marlborough Downs Accessible open space
 Salisbury Plain Accessible open space
 Vale of Pewsey Accessible open space

Notable routes through Wiltshire are:
 A4 road
 M4 motorway
 A303 trunk road
 Fosse Way old Roman road
 Great Western Main Line railway
 Wessex Main Line railway
 Kennet and Avon Canal
 Swindon and Cricklade Railway Heritage Railway
 Thames Path, a long-distance footpath
 Wiltshire Cycleway
 National Cycle Route 4

Wiltshire is "Mid-Wessex" in the novels of Thomas Hardy

 Other websites 

 Wiltshire County Council
 List of Councillors 
 Wiltshire Constabulary Online 
 BBC Wiltshire
 Wiltshire Tourist Office
 John Aubrey's The Natural History of Wiltshire
 White horses of Wiltshire 
 Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
 Wiltshire Times & Chippenham News
 Geology map of Wiltshire (PDF)
 Wiltshire & Swindon Intelligence Network


Category:Ceremonial counties of England