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  Goingoutguide - places to go and things to do throughout Wiltshire
Wiltshire is particularly well-known for its pre-Roman archaeology.
The mesolithic, neolithic and bronze age Celtic tribes that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire.
In the 6th and 7th centuries Wiltshire was at the western edge of Saxon Britain, as Cranborne Chase and the Somerset Levels prevented the advance to the west.
www.goingoutguide.co.uk /wiltshire.htm   (173 words)

  
  Wiltshire - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Wiltshire is mainly in the diocese of Salisbury, but a considerable part is in that of Bristol, and small parts in those of Gloucester, Oxford and Winchester.
In the Civil War of the 17th century Wiltshire actively supported the parliamentary cause, displaying a spirit of violent anti-Catholicism, and the efforts of the marquess of Hertford and of Lord Seymour to raise a party for the king met with vigorous resistance from the inhabitants.
Wiltshire at this time was already reckoned among the chief of the clothing counties, the principal centres of the industry being Bradford, Malmesbury, Trowbridge, Devizes and Chippenham.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Wiltshire   (4004 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Charlton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Charlton, Bristol, a village near Filton, Bristol that was demolished in order to extend the runway at Filton Airfield
Division of Charlton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
Charlton Athletic F.C., an English football team based in the London district of that name.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Charlton   (79 words)

  
 WILTSHIRE [WILTS] - Online Information article about WILTSHIRE [WILTS]
Canal in the N.E., and on the Kennet and Avon Canal across Salisbury Plain.
The archdeaconrics of Wiltshire and Salisbury are mentioned in 1180; in 1291 the former included the deaneries of Avebury, Malmesbury, Marlborough and Cricklade within this county, and the latter the deaneries of Amesbury, Potterne, Wilton, Chalke and Wylye.
Wiltshire at this time was already reckoned among the chief of the clothing counties, theprincipal centres of the See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /WIL_YAK/WILTSHIRE_WILTS.html   (4401 words)

  
 Transportation
Wiltshire County Council is the highway authority and is therefore responsible for road maintenance, changes to the highway network and public transport provision in conjunction with the private sector.
Kennet has adopted this good practice guide which provides information on when a travel plan will be required and provides information on what a travel plan is and how developers can write and use one in relation to their development.
Kennet has a number of footpaths that are part of the public rights of way and access to the countryside network which is managed and maintained by Wiltshire County Council.
www.kennet.gov.uk /planning/forward-planning/transportation/index.htm   (2280 words)

  
 Wiltshire genealogy heraldry and history
Wilts or Wiltshire, an inland county bounded on the NW and the N by Gloucestershire, on the E by Berks and Hants, on the S by Hants and Dorsetshire, and on the W by Somerset.
Dairy-cows are extensively kept in the NW for the producing of Wiltshire cheese, horned cattle are fattened, and calves are bred for veal.
Sheep, chiefly of the Southdown breed crossed with the Leicester and Cotswold breeds, are kept on the central and southern pastures.
www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Wiltshire/index.html   (424 words)

  
 Fishing Wiltshire
Bristol Avon (Holt to Melksham, Wiltshire) 01225 755472 or 01225 763835
Kennet and Avon Canal (Froxfield, Wiltshire) 0118 9417368
Kennet and Avon Canal (Hilperton, Wiltshire) 01225 755472
www.fishingheaven.co.uk /uk/fishing-wiltshire.htm   (1173 words)

  
 charlton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Charlton is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
www.vocamania.com /charlton.aspx   (213 words)

  
 C.R.U. Benefice: St. Peter's church history
Charlton St Peter, Rushall & Upavon Benefice website - keeping you in touch with the church, local events, news and information from around the Wiltshire, UK-based benefice.
Surviving masonry indicates that there was a church at Charlton in the 12th century.
Medieval references to the 'chapel' of Charlton suggest that it may originally have been dependent on the church of Upavon, a possession of the abbey of St. Wandrille de Fontenelle (Seine-Maritime).
www.crubenefice.org /2006/07/st_peters_churc.html   (195 words)

  
 Visit Wiltshire - accommodation, camping, places to stay, sight seeing wiltshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Wiltshire is proud to boast a large number of Farmers' Markets ensuring that there is a market located near you in every large town.
Wiltshire Country Market stalls, formerly called WI Markets, are found every week throughout the county of Wiltshire and offer a wide range of crafts, home grown and home made produce from the kitchen, garden and dairy.
Wiltshire has a wide range of good restaurants and pubs and wherever you stay in the county you will find somewhere where you can enjoy an excellent meal.
www.visitwiltshire.co.uk /pages/christmasshoppingfeature.asp   (2447 words)

  
 kt(consult)
In recognition of the high standards achieved within the Kennet District Council, both in terms of the authorities No.1 rating in the national survey of councils and also the attainment of the Charter Mark for Environmental Health performance, the consultation process is aimed to be as comprehensive and informative as possible.
The statutory consultees were consulted via the Wiltshire Group, with a letter being sent to all concerned.
A public notice was placed in the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald to announce the availability of the report for public comment.
www.uwe.ac.uk /aqm/centre/region/wiltshire/kennet/mkt(con).html   (1737 words)

  
 Charlton on GlobalGuide.Org, mapping the world
Charlton, Bristol, a village near Filton, Bristol that was demolished in order to extend the runway at Filton Airfield
Division of Charlton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
Charlton Athletic F.C., an English football team based in the London district of that name.
www.globalguide.org /?lat=51.4812&long=0.0363&zoom=5&name=Charlton,_London&wiki=0&title=Charlton,_London   (275 words)

  
 Silbury and Edward Duke
The Wiltshire Trust attributed some of the blame for the book to the exuberance of youth and seemed of the belief that its author was a naive young man, rather than a retired cleric.
He placed Silbury Hill in Wiltshire as the druidic mystic centre which represented Earth, and depicted the traditional planets at temples situated along what would now be called a ley-line (the Duke Line) which is at 275 degrees (5 degrees Capricorn), where 0 degrees is West (0 degrees Aries).
Most of the major asteroids, including Ceres and Vesta, have been classed as female, so it was the North node of the asteroid belt that would be of most geodetic interest, and this point proved to be near the homestead of Cotmarsh.
infoman16.tripod.com /Articles/dukeline.htm   (4584 words)

  
 Bobby Charlton Soccer School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is also British slang for a policeman, deriving from Robert Peel, the founder of thefirst metropolitan police force in London.
Cgarlton, a place in the Kennet district of Wiltshire, England.
The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while thegoalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball.
www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/32575-bobby-charlton-soccer-school.html   (697 words)

  
 James Gray for North Wiltshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
North Wiltshire MP James Gray is supporting IndependentAge's campaign to reach out to older carers and raise awareness of the difficulties they face.
Wiltshire pupils fare particularly badly, coming 8th from the bottom in the table of local education authorities.
Wiltshire secondary schools are allocated £3,337 per pupil while schools in Birmingham will receive £4,000 and in the City of London £6,708.
www.jamesgray.org /News.htm   (8030 words)

  
 Wiltshire Genealogy
Familia for Wiltshire County Council is the county section of a web-based directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Wiltshire Intelligencer was issued on Internet by the County Local Studies Library containing news of local studies initiatives and events in the county plus a Wiltshire List of new publications.
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society is the parent body of Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Library in Devizes.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/WIL   (3870 words)

  
 This Is Wiltshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vet Elisabeth Seidel, who specialises in McTimoney and acupuncture, has been building up a growing reputation among race- horse trainers in the area for her treatment of horses' backs and associated aliments.
During a recent visit to Roger Charlton's Beckhampton yard to render treatment to a four-year-old bay colt named Dilmoun, she told Turf Talk that she came to England from Germany in 1989 to start her first job in a vet's practice.
Charlton's star sprinters Avonbridge, Patavellian, Striking Ambition, and horses owned by the Queen, have received McTimoney and massage at Beckhampton.
www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=695651   (588 words)

  
 Houses in Wiltshire - houses and property for sale in Wilts Wiltshire with the leading estate and rental agents.
Use our Wiltshire Property Search whether you are looking for a 2 bed cottage for sale or a 4 bed house in Swindon you will be able to locate properties and houses for sale via the estate agents with property to sell all listed with Wiltshire Homes.
Use our Wiltshire Rental Search whether you are looking for a 1 bed flat to rent or a 5 bed home to let in Chippenham you will be able to locate properties and houses to let via the rental and letting agents with property to rent all listed with Wiltshire Homes.
Selling or purchasing a property on the internet is immensly popular and is the easiest way to search for available properties in the areas of your choice from the comfort of your own home.
www.houses-in-wiltshire.co.uk   (619 words)

  
 Window on Wiltshire's Heritage: News
The diaries are a collaboration between Kennet District Council and Wiltshire County Council's "Windows on Wiltshire's Heritage Project" which is funded by the New Opportunities Fund.
The first project called "The Negotiating Avebury Project" began on 1st September and will continue until the 28th September and is the final part of the five–year archaeological research project funded by the AHRB (The Arts and Humanities Research Board) aims to explore the monumental landscape around Avebury.
Chris Franklin, Kennet’s webmaster, Helen Shalders of Wiltshire County Council and Melanie Pomeroy–Kellinger of Kennet District Council are working together on other exciting web initiatives designed to highlight Wiltshire’s Heritage in the Kennet area.
www.wowheritage.org.uk /news/article.php?NewsID=17   (402 words)

  
 BED AND BREAKFASTS-UK. GUIDE TO UK BED AND BREAKFAST ACCOMMODATION.
Liz and Colin Legge, Bullocks Horn Cottage, Charlton, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 9DZ
Reuilly House is a comfortable, modern house on the outskirts of the town of Mere in West Wiltshire.
We are situated in a tranquil setting adjacent to the Kennet and Avon Canal in Semington, Wiltshire, where cycling, walking, fishing and boat hire are just a few leisure activities to enjoy.
www.bedandbreakfasts-uk.co.uk /southwest-wiltshire.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Whats on in Kennet District of Wiltshire including Marlborough & Devizes
The district of Kennet covers 370 square miles and is one of the most sparsely populated districts in England with a population in 2004/05 of 74,305.
For more community information visit Merlin, the Wiltshire Libraries clubs and societies database, at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/merlin.
Merlin contains contact details for over 9,000 Wiltshire organisations from theatre companies to sports clubs, from health support groups to gardening societies.
www.kennet-communityweb.com /index-text.htm   (166 words)

  
 Wiltshire Walks 05
This page shows some walks we have done in Wiltshire, along with lots of photos and a little information on where we went.
The walk is a lovely one, very varied, with some challenging (for Wiltshire!) hills during the second half.
It was extremely windy, which we put down to the height we were at, but it seems it was windy everywhere on the day we walked it.
www.suemelvin.net /walks05.html   (2436 words)

  
 Charlton, Kennet, Wiltshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charlton is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in the English county of Wiltshire.
Charlton is grouped with the parish of Wilsford, the two have a joint parish council.
Wiltshire County Council Website page on Charlton, retrieved 15:30 Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlton,_Kennet,_Wiltshire   (141 words)

  
 Hotels near Charlton on AboutBritain.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Situated overlooking the Kennet and Avon Canal the hotel is close to many of the city's famous local attractions.
A Georgian country house hotel with its own vineyard set in 5 acres of grounds overlooking the picturesque Wiltshire Downs yet only minutes from the Georgian city of Bath.
It combines the intimacy of a grand country hotel retreat with all the benefits of modern facilities and luxury of the Ragdale Spa.
www.aboutbritain.com /hotels-near-towns/hotels-near-charlton-4.asp   (522 words)

  
 Bobby Charlton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Charlton, a place in the Kennet district of Wiltshire, England.
Charltln, a place in the NorthWiltshire district of Wiltshire, England.
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www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/32573-bobby-charlton.html   (152 words)

  
 Purr-n-Fur UK: British pub signs featuring cats: info, notes and anecdotes
The 'Charlton Cat' is renowned for its association with the poet Stephen Duck, who hailed from the nearby village of Charlton, and a festival in his honour is still held annually.
The men receiving the benefits must be Charlton born and bred; there is a special hat, which must be worn when drinking three-quarters of a pint of beer, all in one go, from a special mug.
He and his father before him were licensees of the 'Charlton Cat' between 1925 and 1958, and were also the local flsmiths.
www.purr-n-fur.org.uk /fun/pubsign/notes1.html   (1043 words)

  
 North Wiltshire & Kennet News from the Gazette and Herald
North Wiltshire & Kennet News from the Gazette and Herald
Twelve years after millions of pounds were last spent looking at creating a unitary authority in Wiltshire, the subject is once again on the table.
The majority of future housing in Kennet should be concentrated on Tidworth and Ludgershall, according to members of Kennet District Council.
www.wiltshiregazetteandherald.com /news   (244 words)

  
 Wiltshire Police News Article
Officers from Marlborough police station will visit equestrian yards and premises in the Kennet area of both private and commercial enterprises and mark tack free of charge, although donations will be invited, to go to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
The first port of call when the scheme started last week was Greatwood Rehabilitation Centre at Clench, which was visited on January 25 and where 20 saddles were marked.
Trainer Roger Charlton was so impressed with the initiative that the previous day he was quoted in the Racing Post, saying:
www.wiltshire.police.uk /news/newsview.asp?id=1011   (852 words)

  
 Wiltshire Family History Society, Parish Registers
The Society has been transcribing parish registers for Wiltshire, and below is a list of completed transcripts.
New transcripts are available in book form for a period of five years from the date of first production, and then after for as long as stocks lasts; they will then continue to be a available in fiche form.
Available from Wiltshire FHS £15 each, or by post from 10 Castle Lane Devizes, SN10 1HJ, £16.20 each including postage and packing.
www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk /parishreg.htm   (659 words)

  
 History and Geography of Berkshire, England - Combs & Research
The substratum consists of chalk, or gravel, with portions of clay at greater or less depths, according to the quality of the soil.
From an estimate made in the year 1806, it appeared that there were in the county 255,000 acres of arable land, 72,000 in meadow and dairy-land, 25,000 in sheep-walks, chiefly un-enclosed, on the chalk hills; 25,000 in other dry pastures, parks, &c., and 30,000 waste, chiefly barren heaths.
The Wilts and Berks canal extends from the Thames, at Abingdon, to the eastern border of the county, in the upper part; and the Kennet and Avon canal, from the river Kennet, a little above Newbury, across the lower part of the county.
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/brk/history.htm   (1621 words)

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