Topic: Wiltshire

Without the Eden Project St Austel may not have been included here. A few miles out there is also the beach Blackpool Sands, which is considered to be one of the best in Devon. Torquay and Torbay includes three towns on the ...
Named after the former head county town of Wilton, the history of Wiltshire dates back to prehistoric times and is most notable for its pre Roman archaeology including the famous monument of Stonehenge built 3,500 years ago and the Avebury stone circle. ...
English Heritage has a strong presence in Wiltshire with eighteen properties in the county. Many of the English Heritage sites in Wiltshire show off the oldest periods of English history, the Neolithic period, and many of these sites are world famous, although ...

Salisbury Plain

Salisbury Plain, one of Great Britain's best-known open spaces, consisting of a plateaulike area covering about 300 square miles (775 square km), in the county of Wiltshire, England. The largely treeless tract, drained to the south by the River Avon and its ...
When Phileas Fogg set off around the world on a wager for £20,000 he was given just 80 days in which to circumnavigate the planet ? a feat deemed almost laughable upon the arrival of the magnificent Concorde, but nonetheless an enviable ...