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• Wiltshire
  ...five other counties: [[Somerset]] to the west, [[Gloucestershire]] to the north, [[Berkshire]] and [[Hampshire]] to the east and [[Dorset]] to the south. The name of Wiltshire is conventionally abbreviated to "Wilts".
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• Abingdon
  Abingdon lies 5½ miles south of [[Oxford]] and five miles north of [[Didcot]], in the flat valley of the [[Thames]] and is situated on the ...e town with the Great Western Railway at [[Didcot]]. The [[Wilts and Berks Canal]] was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and
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• Wantage
  '''Wantage''' is a market town in north-western [[Berkshire]], about eight miles south-west of [[Abingdon]] and a s ...ve to the north on the A338. A very small portion of the [[Wilts and Berks Canal]] is still within the parish.
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• River Ock
  The '''River Ock''' is a river in north-western [[Berkshire]] and though it is small, it and its tributaries have c ...Vale of White Horse, a low-lying and wide valley within the chalk hills of North [[Berkshire]].
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• Grove, Berkshire
  ...n [[Berkshire]] standing on the [[Letcombe Brook]] about a mile and a half north of [[Wantage]] in the [[Vale of White Horse]]. ...l was built. Its main route passed through the village and a branch of the canal was built between Grove and Wantage.
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• Royal Wootton Bassett
  |constituency=North Wiltshire ...f 11,043 in 2001. It lies six miles to the south-west of the major town of north Wiltshire, [[Swindon]].
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• Bourton, Berkshire
  ...road between Swindon and [[Faringdon]].<ref>Dalby, 2000, page 23</ref> The canal supplied coal mainly from the Somerset Coalfield and smaller amounts from t ...e bridge", which is to say it has two arches: the easterly one spanned the canal and the westerly one spanned the Swindon to Faringdon main road.
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• Shrivenham
  ...through the area and opened Shrivenham railway station. Coal deliveries by canal fluctuated through the 1840s and then collapsed from 272 tons in 1850 to on ...traffic and in 1914 an Act of Parliament formalised the abandonment of the canal.
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• Woolstone, Berkshire
  ...ast the village of [[Uffington]] and joins the [[River Ock]] about 2 miles north of Woolstone village. ...e and upland pasture on the downs. The parish extends just over four miles north to south but is slightly less than a mile wide at its widest point.
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• Chippenham, Wiltshire
  ...es between the [[Marlborough Downs]] to the east, the [[Cotswolds]] to the north and west and [[Salisbury Plain]] to the south. ...ltshire District Councils and is the largest Tourist Information Centre in North Wiltshire. The hall is one of very few remaining mediæval timber framed bu
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• Devizes
  ...ood on the north side of the Castle's Old Park, across the Kennet and Avon canal by way of a bridge still called the Prison Bridge. The House of Corrections ...ritage.org.uk/kennet_and_avon_canal.html Devizes Heritage: Kennet and Avon Canal]</ref> The major legacy of this effort today os the remarkable flight of lo
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• Swindon
  |constituency=North Swindon, South Swindon ...ognition. Even before then it was Wiltshire's first industrial town: the canal network came here early in the nineteenth century and the railway reached S
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• Cricklade
  |constituency=North Wiltshire ...indication that streets were laid out in a regular fashion behind the main north-south High Street. This led through a gate in the northern line of the defe
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• River Cole, Wiltshire
  [[File:River Cole flowing north - geograph.org.uk - 305872.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Cole marking the Berks ...er rises near [[Swindon]] at the springs which fed the old Wilts and Berks Canal at Marshgate. The precise location is unknown as much of the upper course h
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• River Key
  ...he River Key Aqueduct.<ref>[http://www.northwiltscanal.org.uk/ North Wilts Canal Trust]</ref>
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  [[File:canal.at.bathampton.arp.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The canal at Bathampton, Somerset]] ...inland navigation route from the [[Bristol Channel]] in the west to the [[North Sea]] in the east.
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• River Marden
  The Marden rises just north of the valley of Ranscombe Bottom near [[Calstone Wellington]] in [[Wiltshi ...t the village of Stanley. A mile and a half later it joins the Avon to the north east of [[Chippenham]].
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• Dauntsey Vale
  The '''Dauntsey Vale''' is a broad, rural valley in the north of [[Wiltshire]]. It takes its name from the village of [[Dauntsey]] in the ...ootton Bassett]] in the east to [[Malmesbury]] in the west. This prominent north ridge is the setting for the village of [[Brinkworth, Wiltshire|Brinkworth]
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• Calne
  '''Calne''' is a small town in [[Wiltshire]], at the north-western extremity of the [[Marlborough Downs]]. The town lies on the [[River Marden]], the [[Wilts & Berks Canal]] and the A4 road 19 miles east of [[Bath]] and 6 miles east of [[Chippenha
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• Vale of Pewsey
  {{county|Wilts}} ...]]. It represnts the low ground between the [[Marlboriough Downs]] to the north and [[Salisbury Plain]] to the south. In this broad valley flows the [[Riv
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• Little Bedwyn
  The [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] and the Reading to Taunton railway line follow the Dun and pass through t ...t the beginning of the 15th century. It is situated on the Kennet and Avon canal, and includes the hamlets of Chisbury and Timbridge. The living is a vicara
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• Wilts and Berks Canal
  [[File:Wilts-and-Berks-Canal-Swindon.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Wilts & Berks Canal near Rushey Platt, Swindon]] ...rkshire]]. Its full course is 52 miles long linking the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] at [[Semington]], near [[Melksham]], to the [[River Thames]] at [[Abingdo
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• Thames and Severn Canal
  [[File:Brimscombe bridge.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The canal at Brimscombe]] ...[[Gloucestershire]]. It was completed in 1789 and conceived as part of a canal route from [[Bristol]] to [[London]]. At its eastern end, it connects to th
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• Stroudwater Canal
  The '''Stroudwater Canal''' or '''Stroudwater Navigation''' is a canal in [[Gloucestershire]], built to link [[Stroud]] to the [[Severn Estuary]]. ...ed a more direct route in 1810. Despite competition from the railways, the canal continued to pay dividends to shareholders until 1922, and was not finally
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• Somersetshire Coal Canal
  [[File:Dry Canal Locks at Combe Hay.JPG|thumb|300px|Disused locks near Combe Hay]] [[File:Somerset Coal Canal Map.png|thumb|300px|Map of the Somerset Coal Canal]]
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• West Grimstead
  |county=Wilts ...stead was opened, linking to the [[Andover Canal]] near [[Kimbridge]]; the canal was never completed as far as Salisbury and closed in 1806.
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• Abingdon Lock
  ...ck to the current course, possibly taking into account the [[Wilts & Berks Canal]] which was to connect to the current navigation channel at Abingdon within The lock can be reached on a track heading north from [[Abingdon Bridge]] on the [[Andersey Island]] side. Alternatively it
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• Culham Lock
  ...ames]] in [[Oxfordshire]], close to [[Culham]]. It is on a lock cut to the north of the main stream, which approaches the large village of [[Sutton Courtena ...s to a winding hole, but will eventually link to the historic route of the canal to the west of Abingdon.<ref>[http://abingdon.gentle-highway.info/Grand_Ope
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• Grand Junction Canal
  The '''Grand Junction Canal''' is a canal from [[Braunston]] in [[Northamptonshire]] to the [[River Thames]] at [[Bre ...nd Union Canal|Grand Union Main Line]] from London to [[Birmingham]]. The canal is now much used by leisure traffic.
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• Westwood, Wiltshire
  |county=Wilts Upper Westwood, on a ridge crest to the north, was a distinct settlement from Lower Westwood but 20th-century housing fil
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• Bruce Tunnel
  |county=Wilts |type=canal tunnel
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• Limpley Stoke
  |county=Wilts |picture caption = The village seen from the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]]
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• Dundas Aqueduct
  {{county|Wilts}} [[File:Dundas2.JPG|thumb|250px|Dundas Aqueduct (the narrow section of canal in the centre) viewed from the west]]
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• Avoncliff
  |county=Wilts |picture=Avoncliff - Canal Aqueduct.jpg
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• Semington
  |county=Wilts ...[[Wiltshire]], about two miles south of [[Melksham]] and about three miles north-east of [[Trowbridge]]. The parish includes the hamlets of Little Marsh and
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• New Semington Aqueduct
  {{county|Wilts}} '''New Semington Aqueduct''' carries the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] over the carriageway of the A350 road [[Trowbridge]] Bypass, at [[Semingt
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• Semington Aqueduct
  {{county|Wilts}} ...educt at [[Semington]], [[Wiltshire]], which carries the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] over the Semington Brook.
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• Seend
  |county=Wilts ...of [[Melksham]]. It lies about 3½ miles west of [[Devizes]] and 5½ miles north-east of the [[county town]] of [[Trowbridge]]. The parish includes the sub-
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• River Dun (Kennet)
  {{county|Wilts}} ...k|accessdate=28 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kennet and Avon Canal and Dun above Hungerford|url=http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-plann
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• Alton Barnes White Horse
  ...Hill]], the [[county top|highest hill]] in [[Wiltshire]], some 1,000 yards north of the village of [[Alton, Wiltshire|Alton]] in that county. ...> but particularly good road views of it can be seen from the Honey Street canal bridge,<ref name=smith /> the Alton Priors road,<ref name=whab/> and the Lo
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• Brinkworth
  |county=Wilts |constituency=North Wiltshire
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• Dauntsey
  |county=Wilts |constituency=North Wiltshire
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• Alderbury
  |county=Wilts ==Canal and railways==
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• Staverton, Wiltshire
  '''Staverton''' is a village in the west of [[Wiltshire]], about two miles north [[Trowbridge]]'s town centre and three miles east of [[Bradford on Avon]]. ...[River Biss|Biss]] is the boundary in the southwest. The [[Kennet and Avon Canal]], built in 1804, is the boundary to the south and south-east.
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• Cadley Lock
  {{county|Wilts}} [[File:Kennet and Avon Canal, Wootton Rivers looking north-east - geograph.org.uk - 345774.jpg|thumb|250px|Wootton Top Lock]]
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