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Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon

Formerly a teacher training college for school mistresses, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

In the 1700s coaches left here for Chester, Highworth in Wiltshire and Wendover in Buckinghamshire.

Formerly a theological training college, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.

; the style had become fashionable thanks to Horace Walpole, who had used it to great effect at his own house, Strawberry Hill, and the amateur architect Sanderson Miller had used it at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

It originally belonged to Great Bedwyn church in Wiltshire before the churchwardens consigned it to a scrap heap.

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.

Copied by James Gibbs from the one at Wilton House in Wiltshire, this bridge from 1738 crosses the end of the Octagon Lake in the grounds of Stowe.

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

The daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful and Lady Wulfrith, Edith was born in the village in 961, but lived most of her short life at Wilton Abbey in Wiltshire.

Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.

Stephen of Tisbury, archdeacon of Wiltshire, founded a Trinitarian friary here in 1245 to serve as a hostel for poor travellers.

A new grammar school was built on the site at Wessington in 1957, the first in the county of Wiltshire, with 360 places for boys and girls.

Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.

An example of the activities there was reported in The Wiltshire Gazette of 3 August 1950: 'For the less energetic a whist drive was held on Friday when 14 tables were occupied … Mr Drew was

This view across to St Mary's Church clearly shows a variety of architectural styles, including the unusual curved rear of the Town Hall on the left, the ornate gabled roof the Wiltshire Friendly Society

Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about

FOR MANY YEARS, after the decline of the weaving industry, the manufacture of rubber linked the two West Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham.

Situated on the edge of the Cherhill Downs, just below the earthworks known as Oldbury Castle, this is the second oldest of the Wiltshire white horses.

IN HIS 'Round About Wiltshire' (1901), A G Bradley wrote about Warminster: 'its situation is the most striking feature, for that is beautiful, though there is nothing in the aspect of the town unworthy