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Wiltshire
is a large southern English county, it is landlocked, it borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, were property for sale can be found, The county
town is Trowbridge here you will find Victorian houses. |
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The main street is Fore Street, which has a variety of shops, including the Shires and Castle Place shopping centres, the world champion town
crier is based here, other property can be found in Bradford on Avon, Westbury, Melksham and Devizes. The largest area of chalk in Wiltshire is Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used
mainly for arable agriculture, you can find Stonehenge and Avebury here being perhaps the most famous neolithic sites in the UK. Property here dates from the 6th and 7th
centuries and history can be found almost every were, Salisbury cathedral is
one of the ancient holy places of England. It has been a house of prayer and a place of pilgrimage for 750 years. The cathedral is open daily, together with the Chapter House with the Old
Sarum, being the site of the original Salisbury cathedral and castle. There is excellent road communications via the A303, with access to London and the South West. |