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Wootton is a large village and civil parish located to the southwest of Bedford, in the north of Bedfordshire, England. The parish also includes the hamlets of Hall End , Keeley Green and Wootton Green .
The village has a Church of England primary school. [6] The village has a recently refurbished business park [7] and two housing estates built between 1999 and 2009. There are a few shops in Wootton, including two convenience stores, a pharmacy, and a chip shop. There is also a dentist, a bathroom shop, a carpet shop and Sign-a-Rama.
Wootton Hall, the house where Rousseau stayed, was demolished in the 1930s. [10] Wootton Lodge, the privately owned 17th century house, is a grade I listed building in the parish owned by the Bamford family. During the English Civil War the house was held for the Crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. It was restored in about ...
Royal Wootton Bassett has no railway station, although it has been served in the past by Wootton Bassett Road and Wootton Bassett Junction stations, and is a major junction on the rail network, being the location where the South Wales Main Line branches off of the Great Western Main Line. Thus stations nearby offer direct connections to London ...
Wootton St. Mary was recorded in the Domesday Book as Cerletone. [3] In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Wotton: WOOTTON, [sic] a hamlet and a ville in St. Mary-de-Lode parish, Gloucestershire; adjacent to Gloucester city. Real property, £5,425.
Wootton Bassett railway station opened on 30 July 1841, when the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington was extended from Chippenham via the Box Tunnel through to Bristol Temple Meads. It replaced Wootton Bassett Road, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the east as the station serving Wootton Bassett.
Wootton is a small village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 475. [ 1 ] It is situated 5 miles (8 km) south-east from Barton-upon-Humber , 7 miles (11 km) north-east from Brigg and 3 miles (5 km) north from Humberside Airport .
Wootton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Denton with Wootton, in the Dover district of Kent, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 164. [1] The village is 7 miles (11 km) northwest from the channel port of Dover, and 30 miles (48 km) east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone.