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  • ...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 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''' 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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • [[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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  • ...he River Key Aqueduct.<ref>[http://www.northwiltscanal.org.uk/ North Wilts Canal Trust]</ref>
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  • [[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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  • 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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  • 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''' 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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  • {{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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