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  Wroughton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wroughton is also claimed to be the largest village in the whole UK, something many other villages openly claim to be.
Wroughton is most prominent for its connection to The Ridgeway (in which its secondary school is named after), a National Trail which is often in itself related to the ancient White Horse of Uffington.
Wroughton was home to RAF Wroughton which closed in the late 1980s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wroughton   (196 words)

  
 RAF Wroughton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force station based near Wroughton, Wiltshire which was closed in the late 70s.
Wroughton also became the final assembly point, in the second half of 1943, for many of the gliders that were to play a key role in the liberation of Europe the following summer.
Mosquitoes and more Lancasters made their last flights to Wroughton during the 1950s, usually destined for the scrapheap, but one Lancaster - PA474 - came in for an overhaul in 1964, ready to join the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, of which it is still a member.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Wroughton   (1348 words)

  
 Wroughton Parish Council - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wroughton can be found towards the South West in the county of Wiltshire.
It nestles beneath the Marlborough Downs to the north of the Ridgeway National Trail and mainly to the South of the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
The parish of Wroughton is one of the biggest in the British Isles and enjoys a wide diversity of both countryside and local activities.
www.wroughton.gov.uk   (253 words)

  
 Wroughton: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Science Museum Wroughton is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry.
It houses the Science Museum's collections of large objects in store and on display Wroughton lies to the north-west of the Marlborough Downs in an area of Wiltshire renowned for its outstanding natural beauty.
The inspiration for the bicycle is illustrated at Wroughton by the wooden Hobbyhorse of 1818.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /wroughton/introduction.asp   (1290 words)

  
 Wroughton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The pilots who flew in and out of Wroughton were largely civilian auxiliaries (many of them women).
In addition, the Science Museum uses Wroughton's cavernous hangars to store large exhibits in "rotation" from its London HQ and elsewhere.
Wroughton is not open to the public - except on certain Open Days, or by special arrangement.
www.strum.co.uk /wessex/wrought.htm   (846 words)

  
 Roll of Honour - Wiltshire - Wroughton
There are two memorials in Wroughton, one in St John the Baptist and St Helen's Parish Church and the other being the town memorial.
The Town memorial has one extra name added than on the Church memorial; also on the town memorial on one of the Clark's there is an E added to the end which differs from the church memorial.
Son of Eliza Ashton, of 52, Swindon Rd., North Wroughton, Wilts., and the late Richard Ashton; brother of Edgar Charles above.
www.roll-of-honour.com /Wiltshire/Wroughton.html   (1026 words)

  
 Wroughton: Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Science Museum Wroughton is the large object storage facility for the National Collections of the Science Museum.
The whole spectrum of collections of scientific and technological interest are stored and conserved here ranging from the Lockheed Constellation airliner to early computers, from bicycles to the Woods Press and MRI scanners to hovercrafts.
The Science Museum Wroughton is situated off the A4361 Devizes road, south of Swindon and the M4.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /wroughton   (348 words)

  
 Burleson-Crowley Connection - Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wroughton, the executive pastor at The Church at Burleson, said his work in the ministry takes priority over his ability to entertain by impersonating the king of rock ’n’ roll.
Studying piano and guitar was a challenge, Wroughton said, but the dances came naturally because he grew up with such gyrations, even though he said he wasn’t old enough to be an Elvis fan.
Wroughton has performed at such venues as the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas, the Christy Lane Theater in Branson, Mo., the Miss National Teenage America Pageant in Nashville, Tenn., and professional baseball’s 1995 All Star Gala in Dallas.
www.burlesoncrowley.com /publish/article_783.shtml   (814 words)

  
 Wroughton Links
Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." (A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Wroughton "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wroughton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
www.welcome-2-europe.com /United_Kingdom_England_Wiltshire_Wroughton.html   (1478 words)

  
 Science Museum - Wroughton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Wroughton 'out station' houses the Air Transport Collection and Storage Facility for the Science Museum in London.
Wroughton Airfield, on the A4361 south of Swindon, Wiltshire.
Follow the signs for Wroughton from the A4365 (M4 Junction 16) or the A345 (M4 Junction 15) and then the brown 'Science Museum' signs.
aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk /mus/uk/u-z/wroughton.htm   (172 words)

  
 Halcrow In Wroughton in directory.co.uk
WROUGHTON engineering consultants The Halcrow Group is involved in the development of a £3 billion tourism, leisure and entertainment project...
Catherine Crossfield, 28, from central Swindon, is a water and waste-water engineer at Halcrow, in Wroughton, by day and an A-level history...
WROUGHTON: Engineering firm Halcrow could play a major role in the rebuilding of Iraq.
www.directory.co.uk /Halcrow_In_Wroughton.htm   (197 words)

  
 CNN.com - Museum exhibits a high-tech future - Apr 5, 2005
Wroughton's hangers have space for around 18,000 objects belonging to London's Science Museum, ranging from vintage airliners to horse-drawn fire engines, early computers and MRI scanners.
Earlier this year Intel, the world's largest computer chip manufacturer, contacted Wroughton's curators with a proposal to make their lives easier.
Wroughton's remoteness gave the Science Museum all the space they needed, but that isolation created other problems.
www.cnn.com /2005/BUSINESS/04/04/wroughton.wimax/index.html   (766 words)

  
 Wroughton 2004/5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The 'West' are showing the league that they are incapable of raising their performances to the required level to stay in Division One.
On the day, the players were simply not good enough against a Wroughton team who were not the stiffest competition faced so far this season.
Hopefully, this will be the team's worst display of the season and they will regain their heart and fight for the next game.
freespace.virgin.net /e.dyer/wroughton_2004_5.htm   (371 words)

  
 Fox and Hounds, Wroughton | Accommodation | Science museum | Arkell's Brewery:
Arkell's has two pubs in Wroughton and they stand at opposite ends of the village.
The Fox and and Hounds is the one at the top of the hill running out of the High Street, where it nestles into the hillside and seems to crouch down below the level of its front garden.
It still has the air of a pub in a quiet backwater, seeming almost oblivious to the spread of Wroughton around it, and continues to attract a varied clientele over a wide age range.
www.swindonweb.com /arkells/foxandhounds-wroughton/index.htm   (226 words)

  
 The Swan Christian Centre
The Swan Christian Centre is based in the village of Wroughton, which is located upon the southern borders of the town of Swindon in Wiltshire.
Wroughton Assemblies of God has established itself as a purpose driven church, which means that we have committed ourselves to growing a healthy church that focuses on building peoples lives!
We normally have communion during the second part of the service shortly after the children have left to go to their activities.
www.swanchristiancentre.org.uk   (3566 words)

  
 BBC - Wiltshire Days Out - Science Museum Wroughton Open Day
The Science Museum Wroughton is opening up one of its vast aircraft hangers to the public, this weekend, for an exhibition following the history and uses of wood and paper...
The theme is wood and paper and the exhibition follows a trail from the origins of the wood industry and wood management through to its uses in printing, paper making and recycling.
As the storage facility for the London Science Museum, the Wroughton Science Museum holds the largest and heaviest objects in the collection.
www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/entertainment/days_out/science_museum_woodcycle.shtml   (441 words)

  
 ESTATE AGENTS WROUGHTON, Wiltshire for houses for sale and property to rent
If you're thinking of purchasing a property in Wroughton it is important to use all the resources available to you.
Drive around the areas of Wroughton you're interested in to see if there are any new houses being built which may not be advertised yet.
Estate Agents in Wroughton can be a good source of property to rent and of course the internet is a very useful resource.
www.home-for-sale-uk.com /wiltshire/estate-agents-wroughton.html   (891 words)

  
 SwindonWeb - Wroughton
As the downland road from Devizes descends into Swindon and you first see the office blocks and suburbs of the town, you are fast approaching Wroughton.
This village is home to the National Museum of Science and Industry at Wroughton Airfield, which houses a major national collection of various old aircraft and road transport exhibits.
Wroughton always seems to have more pubs than shops, but does boast the Ellendune Shopping Centre, just off the High St, which caters for the growing Wroughton community.
www.swindonweb.com /guid/wroug0.htm   (118 words)

  
 Wroughton classic event 2006 at the Science Museum
It will not be a circus or funfair, it will be for people who love their bikes and cars.
To find out more on this new event, please visit the Wroughton Challenger Classic website by clicking here.
In addition to the cars and motorcycles on show, there will be a motor mart, auto jumble, hog roast, concours and many other attractions.
www.oldclassiccar.co.uk /pr_wroughton_2006.htm   (476 words)

  
 Local bus, coach and rail information for Wroughton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wroughton is in the Swindon Borough council area (Postcode: SN4).
A list of the 16 local bus services is available here, and a list of all the possible destinations is shown below.
Information on hotels near Wroughton is available here, holiday cottages in this area are available here and other holiday accommodation here.
www.carlberry.co.uk /rfnshowl.asp?L1=WRO001   (242 words)

  
 Wroughton Family Genealogy Forum
Wroughton James, born 1697 - Manfred Mondt 1/11/06
Harkness - Wroughton Foster Families IA and IN - harold Hutchins 6/08/04
the Wroughtons of Broad Hinton, Wilts - Raydon Eiland Alexander 6/30/01
genforum.genealogy.com /wroughton   (169 words)

  
 Science Museum Wroughton - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Wroughton is a storage facility, so many of our objects have been moved here from other museums, conservation projects, and different stores.
Part of the National Museums of Science & Industry – Wroughton is a place with a long past and a big future.
One of four museums comprising the NMSI, Wroughton provides open access storage and a research facility for larger objects within the family of museums at a historic airfield near Swindon.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum/MW670.html   (353 words)

  
 Wroughton, John (formerly Headmaster, King Edward's School, Bath) - The Longman Companion To The Stuart Age, ...
Wroughton, John (Formerly Headmaster, King Edward's School, Bath) - The Longman Companion To The Stuart Age, 1603-1714 (ISBN 0582257751)
Wroughton, John (Formerly Headmaster, King Edward's School, Bath) - The Longman Companion To The Stuart Age, 1603-1714
Wroughton, John - The Longman Companion to the Stuart Age, 1603-1714
www.isbn.pl /I-0582257751/The-Longman-Companion-to-the-Stuart-Age-1603-1714-Longman-Companions-to-History-S.html   (764 words)

  
 Ancestor Guide: Wroughton Genealogy and Surname Search
Wroughton Search at Genealogy.com - Access online data collections and CDs for vital historical records to fill the gap in your family tree research.
Wroughton Matches in the U.S. Immigration Collection - Discover your immigrant ancestors' homelands and learn the details of their journeys to America.
Wroughton Message Board at GenForum - Get in touch with other researchers from all over the world at GenForum, a part of the Community area at Genealogy.com.
www.ancestorguide.com /W/Wroughton/index.html   (367 words)

  
 Ash House, Wroughton, nr. Swindon - REPORT - UK Urban Exploration Forums
The really odd thing is that these two wards are in the middle of nowhere, and there doesn't seem to any remains of anything else nearby.
I know the military tri service hospital used to be at Wroughton (don't know if it still is!), and from the pics this looks the kind of thing i'd expect.
Burderop mental hospital was demolished maybe 10 years or so ago, and the RAF hospital at wroughton shut years ago, and was demolished for housing in the last couple of years
www.28dayslater.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=78   (615 words)

  
 Wroughton Golfing Find Golfing in Wroughton
The Wroughton golfing directory helps you find everything you need to know about golfing.
Our Wroughton golfing directory is more than just a golf course search engine.
Find Wroughton Wiltshire AL golf association, by using our golf association locator to find your local golf association.
www.who-golf.com /Golfing/Wiltshire/Wroughton   (199 words)

  
 BCS Oxfordshire Branch : Wroughton Visit
The Science Museum Wroughton is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry and houses the Science Museum's collections of large objects.
The guided tour of a selection of the exhibits starts at 2.00pm and is likely to last between two and three hours.
The Fox and Hounds is on the right-hand side of the road, shortly before you leave the built-up area of Wroughton.
www.oxon.bcs.org /trip2005.htm   (585 words)

  
 BBC - Wiltshire - Entertainment - Mars Capsule lands in Swindon
A three storey Mars research space station is stopping off at Wroughton next month on route to Iceland...
Now, with new funding, the mini-Mars des-re is on its way to the UK for a 6 month lay over at the Wroughton Science Museum before heading off to a mars-like corner of Iceland.
The Mars, Meteors and Mulled Wine event is on Monday 7th November at the Science Museum Wroughton.
www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/content/articles/2005/10/14/euromars_wroughton_feature.shtml   (744 words)

  
 Estate Agents in Wroughton with property for sale. Wroughton houses, homes and flats.
There is currently 1 office of estate agents in Wroughton and this is most likely to know about all the properties for sale in the local area.
If you find any that you are interested in, you can of course contact the agents direct and ask for more information or make viewing appointments.
If you are serious about finding a property to buy, we can help you to contact the estate agents in Wroughton so that they all know what you are looking for and can contact you immediately when suitable properties become available for sale.
www.ukpropertyshop.com /s/Wiltshire/estate_agents_Wroughton.shtml   (312 words)

  
 Hotels in Wroughton Swindon, Hotels near Wroughton
The Inn with the Well is 6.31 kilometers from Wroughton.
Marsh Farm Hotel is 9.86 kilometers from Wroughton.
The School House Hotel is 10.04 kilometers from Wroughton.
www.starstay.co.uk /Wiltshire/Swindon/hotels_in_and_near_Wroughton_1.htm   (234 words)

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