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Il North Wiltshire fu un distretto locale del Wiltshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito, con sede a Chippenham. Il distretto fu creato con il Local Government Act 1972 , il 1º aprile 1974 dalla fusione dei municipal borough di Calne, Chippenham, e Malmesbury col Distretto rurale di Calne and Chippenham , il Distretto rurale di Cricklade ...
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North Wiltshire è un collegio elettorale inglese situato nel...
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Geografia fisica. La contea confina a nord-ovest e a nord...
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North Wiltshire was a local government district in Wiltshire, England, between 1974 and 2009, when it was superseded by Wiltshire Council . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Calne, Chippenham, and Malmesbury along with Calne and Chippenham Rural District, Cricklade and Wootton Bassett ...
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The county, in the 9th century written as Wiltunscir, later Wiltonshire,[citation needed] is named after the former county town of Wilton.
Wiltshire is notable for its pre-Roman archaeology. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Stonehenge and Aveburyare perhaps the most famous Neolithic sites in the UK. In the 6th and 7th centuries Wiltshire was at the western edge of Saxon Brit...
Two-thirds of Wiltshire, a mostly rural county, lies on chalk, a kind of soft, white, porous limestone that is resistant to erosion, giving it a high chalk downland landscape. This chalk is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and stretching from the Dorset Downs in the w...
Along with the rest of South West England, Wiltshire has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than counties further east. The annual mean temperature is approximately 10 °C (50.0 °F). Although there is a marked maritime influence, this is generally rather less pronounced than it is for other south-western counties, which are clo...
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added (GVA) of Wiltshire at current basic priceswith figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. The Wiltshire economy benefits from the "M4 corridor effect", which attracts business, and the attractiveness of its countryside, towns and villages. The northern part of the county is richer than the...
Wiltshire has 30 county secondary schools, publicly funded, of which the largest is Warminster Kingdown, and eleven independent secondaries, including Marlborough College, St Mary's Calne, Dauntsey's near Devizes, and Warminster School. The county schools are nearly all comprehensives, with the older pattern of education surviving only in Salisbury...
The county registered a population of 680,137 in the 2011 Census. Wiltshire (outside Swindon) has a low population density of 1.4 persons per hectare, when compared against 4.1 for England as a whole. Historical population of Wiltshire county:
Europe
At the 2016 European Union membership referendum, Wiltshire voted in favour of Brexit.
Westminster Parliamentary
At the 2019 general election, all seven Wiltshire constituencies (including the two Swindon constituencies) returned Conservative MPs. The two Swindon constituencies are seen as marginal, bellwether constituencies between Labour and the Conservatives. Conversely, the Chippenham constituency is traditionally contested between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, with Liberal Democrat Duncan Hames holding the seat until 2015. The Liberal Democrats also finished second in Devizes, North Wilt...
Councils
The ceremonial county of Wiltshire consists of two unitary authority areas, Wiltshire and Swindon, governed respectively by Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council. As a result of elections held in 2021, Wiltshire Council comprises 61 Conservatives, 27 Liberal Democrats, seven Independents and three Labourmembers. Swindon Borough Council has 34 Conservative councillors and 23 Labour members. Until the 2009 structural changes to local government, Wiltshire (apart from Swindon) was a two-...
The county is represented in the Football League by Swindon Town, who play at the County Ground stadium near Swindon town centre. They joined the Football League on the creation of the Third Division in 1920, and have remained in the league ever since. Their most notable achievements include winning the Football League Cup in 1969 and the Anglo-Ita...
Wiltshire has twenty-one towns and one city: 1. Amesbury 2. Bradford-on-Avon 3. Calne 4. Chippenham 5. Corsham 6. Cricklade 7. Devizes 8. Highworth(Borough of Swindon) 9. Larkhill 10. Ludgershall 11. Malmesbury 12. Marlborough 13. Melksham 14. Mere 15. Royal Wootton Bassett 16. Salisbury(city) 17. Swindon(Borough of Swindon) 18. Tidworth 19. Trowbr...
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Charlton (Wiltshire, contea dell'Inghilterra sud-occidentale) è un piccolo paese e parrocchia civile del Wiltshire, tre chilometri a nord-est della cittadina di Malmesbury. La terra apparteneva all'Abbazia di Malmesbury. La chiesa del paese risale al 1500 e il parroco è stato per un certo periodo il padre del filosofo britannico ...
North Wiltshire is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by James Gray, a Conservative. [n 2] In the period 1832–1983, this was an alternative name for Chippenham or the Northern Division of Wiltshire and as Chippenham dates to the original countrywide Parliament, the Model ...
