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UK. England. Wiltshire. 51°27′32″N 2°06′58″W / 51.459°N 2.116°W / 51.459; -2.116. Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Bath, 86 miles (138 km) west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Reel Cinema Opened May 2021 Bridgnorth: 3 The Majestic: Burnley: 7 Pioneer Place Brand new cinema opened in September 2023 - previously on the outskirts of the town, now in the town centre Chippenham: 5 The Astoria Chorley: 6 Chorley Market Walk Extension to Chorley Market Walk that opened December 2019. Fareham: 5 Acquired from Apollo Cinemas ...
BTR plc (1992–1999) Invensys (1999–2000) Knorr-Bremse (2000–present) The Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Ltd was a British manufacturer of railroad signs. Founded by George Westinghouse, it was registered as "Westinghouse Brake Company" in 1881. [2][1] The company reorganised in 1920, associating with Evans O'Donnell, and Saxby and ...
Wiltshire. 51°24′54″N 2°07′23″W / 51.415°N 2.123°W / 51.415; -2.123. Lacock is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Chippenham, and about 3.7 miles (6.0 km) outside the Cotswolds area. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust ...
There was a royal forest in the area from the 13th century, sometimes called Chippenham forest, at other times Pewsham and Bowood forest. [5]Pewsham was one of several areas that in 1842 formed the ecclesiastical parish for the newly consecrated Christ Church at Derry Hill; [6] [7] until then Pewsham was extra-parochial, i.e. outside any parish, presumably because it had been largely ...
Yatton Keynell. / 51.486; -2.193. Yatton Keynell (pronounced "kennel") is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is on the B4039 road near Castle Combe, about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Chippenham, and about the same distance to the east of the county border with South Gloucestershire . The parish includes the hamlets of ...
Website. www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. The Gazette and Herald is a local weekly paid-for newspaper, established in Wiltshire, England in 1816 and published every Thursday. It serves the areas and communities of Devizes, Calne, Chippenham, Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Marlborough, Malmesbury, Corsham, Box and other areas in North Wiltshire. [1]
The abbey was given by Empress Matilda in 1151 to monks from Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight. Originally at Loxwell, to the east of Chippenham, it moved to nearby Stanley in 1154. The abbey grew in size in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reaching a size of 450 acres (1.8 km 2) at its largest. Its influence also grew, Abbot Nicholas ...