Wiltshire is a large southern English county. It borders Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset (Formerly Avon), South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It also contains the unitary authority of Swindon. Wiltshire is a mostly rural landscape with large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland. A large part of the county is taken up by Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used mainly by farmers and the British Army. The county had a population of 564,000 in 1991 and a size of 858,931 acres (3475.97 sq km).
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Towns and villages
A bridge over the river Avon at Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire
Other places of interest
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