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Vor einem Tag · Wiltshire, geographic and historic county and unitary authority of southern England. Wiltshire is situated on a low plateau draining into the basins of the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the eastward-flowing River Thames. Trowbridge, in western Wiltshire, is the administrative center.
- Kennet
Kennet, former district, administrative and historic county...
- West Wiltshire
West Wiltshire, former district, administrative and historic...
- North Wiltshire
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Vor 3 Tagen · Stonehenge, prehistoric stone circle monument, cemetery, and archaeological site located on Salisbury Plain, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 BCE, during the transition from the Neolithic Period to the Bronze Age.
Vor 2 Tagen · It stretched from Gillingham in Dorset to Chippenham in Wiltshire, from Bruton to Warminster. It served as a boundary between Anglo-Saxon Wessex and the British kingdom of Dumnonia in the west. In 1086 it became a royal forest. Gradually deforestation took place. Frome was often called Frome Selwood.
Vor 2 Tagen · Home. A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6. Details the history of Old and New Salisbury, Wilton, and the parishes of Underditch hundred. Victoria County History - Wiltshire. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1962. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Table of Contents.
Vor 3 Tagen · The county of Wiltshire is known as "The gateway to the West Country". Wiltshire is a beautiful county of great diversity covering an area of almost 3,500 sq km. It unites the districts of Kennet , West Wiltshire , North Wiltshire, Salisbury and South Wiltshire with the Borough of Swindon. With a population of nearly 430,000 and with much of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Despite the many vicissitudes of the cloth industry in the 17th century, Wilton displayed an astonishing vitality in the various attempts which were made to preserve the prosperity of the town. It was not without significance that in 1631 Wilton had been selected as one of the fourteen Wiltshire centres for cloth inspection.
Vor 2 Tagen · Wilton situated at a strategic point on the river systems of southern Wiltshire was an obvious choice as a place of settlement by the migrants from the south, who about the middle of the 6th century founded the kingdom of Wessex. How early Wilton became the royal seat of the kingdom is unknown, but evidence of the 9th century shows ...
