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Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn , who built the first Italian garden in England there.
Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District was a rural district in the county of Wiltshire, England. It lay to the west and southwest of the town and municipal borough of Swindon . Following the Local Government Act 1972 , on 1 April 1974 the district was merged into the local government district of North Wiltshire .
Calne; Castle Combe; Castle Eaton; Chapmanslade; Charlton, Brinkworth; Charlton, Pewsey Vale; Charlton-All-Saints; Cherhill; Chicklade; Chilmark; Chilton Foliat ...
Royal Wootton Bassett / ˈ r ɔɪ əl ˈ w ʊ t ən ˈ b æ s ɪ t /, formerly Wootton Bassett, is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 13,570 at the 2021 Census. In the north of the county, it lies 6 miles (10 km) to the west of the town of Swindon and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Calne.
The manor and tithing of Midgehall was south of Hook. It was granted to Stanley Abbey in the 1150s, and in 1534 leased by William Pleydell. [2] Later members of the Pleydell family sat in Parliament for Wootton Bassett: William's son, William Pleydell (fl.1640); another son, John Pleydell (c.1601–1693); and Edmund Pleydell (c.1652–1726).
Hook is a small village in Wiltshire, England between the town of Royal Wootton Bassett and the village of Purton, just north of the M4 motorway.The village lies about 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) west of the centre of Swindon, in the civil parish of Lydiard Tregoze.
Wiltshire is a unitary authority area [2] [3] in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, [4] South West England. It was formed in April 2009 following the abolition of Wiltshire County Council and the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire. They were all replaced by Wiltshire Council, [5] which is based at County Hall ...
Wiltshire 51°30′00″N 1°54′40″W / 51.500°N 1.911°W / 51.500; Bushton is an English hamlet about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire .