Wiltshire

{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=300\n|-\n!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Wiltshire\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography\n|-\n|width="45%"|Status:||Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County\n|-\n|Region:||South West England\n|-\n|Area:
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin. area||Ranked 14th
3,485 km²
Ranked 13th
3,255 km²\n|-\n|Admin HQ:||Trowbridge\n|-\n|ISO 3166-2:||GB-WIL\n|-\n|ONS code:||46\n|-\n|NUTS 3:||UKK15\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics\n|-\n|Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council
- Admin. pop.||Ranked 34th
616,907
177 / km²
Ranked 30th
436,349\n|-\n|Ethnicity:||97.5% White\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|
Wiltshire County Council
Members of Parliament\n|-\n|colspan=2|Michael Ancram, Julia Drown, James Gray, Robert Key, Andrew Murrison, Michael Wills\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Districts\n|-\n|colspan=2|\n#Salisbury\n#West Wiltshire\n#Kennet\n#North Wiltshire\n#Swindon (Unitary)\n|}\n Wiltshire is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county it borders those of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. Wiltshire is a mostly rural landscape with large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland. A large part of the county is taken up by Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used mainly by farmers and the British Army.\nThe county had a population of 564,000 in 1991 and a size of 858,931 acres (3475.97 sq km). A local name for a Wiltshire native is moonraker.

Table of contents

1 Towns and villages 2 Other places of interest 3 External links

Towns and villages

\n*Alderbury, Amesbury, Avebury\n*Bradford-on-Avon, Burbage\n*Calne, Castle Combe, Chippenham, Chisbury, Corsham, Cricklade\n*Devizes, Downton, Durrington\n*Holt, Hungerford\n*Lacock, Larkhill, Ludgershall\n*Malmesbury, Manton, Marlborough, Marston, Marston Meysey, Marten, Melksham, Mere\n*Neston, North Tidworth\n*Odstock\n*Pewsey\n*Salisbury\n*Swindon\n*Tiddleywink, Tidworth, Trowbridge\n*Whaddon, Wilton, Wilton, Wootton Bassett

Other places of interest

\n*Avebury Circle, neolithic stone circle\n*Barbury Castle\n*Bowood House\n*Castle Combe\n*Castle Hill, Mere\n*Chisbury Chapel\n*Cranborne Chase\n*Great Chalfield Manor\n*Kennet and Avon Canal\n*Lacock Abbey\n*Old Sarum, the former cathedral\n*Old Wardour Castle\n*Stonehenge\n*Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage railway\n*The Thames Path, a long distance footpath\n*Westwood Manor\n*Woodhenge\n*Wilton House\n*Wilton Windmill

External links

\n*John Aubrey's The Natural History of Wiltshire\n* White horses of Wiltshire \n\n\n\nCategory:Wiltshire