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unusual facts about County of Wiltshire



Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury

On 26 June 1861, on the death of Lord Campbell, he was appointed Lord Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Westbury, of Westbury, in the County of Wiltshire.

Viscount Eccles

Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.


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Charlcutt

Charlcutt is a small hamlet in the county of Wiltshire in England, some 2 km southwest of Lyneham.

Chilmark, Massachusetts

Chilmark was named for Chilmark in the English county of Wiltshire, the ancestral home of the family of Governor Thomas Mayhew of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England.

Chubb baronets

The Chubb Baronetcy, of Stonehenge in the County of Wiltshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 September 1919 for Cecil Chubb, the last owner of Stonehenge.

Corston

Corston, Wiltshire, village in the county of Wiltshire in the United Kingdom

Cyneheard the Atheling

The murder of Cynewulf is placed by modern historians, including the Rev G. H. Godwin, at Marten, a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire.

Cynewulf of Wessex

In 786 Cynewulf was surprised and killed, with all his Thegns present, at Merantune (now called Marten, a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire), by Cyneheard the Atheling, brother of the deposed Sigeberht.

David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire.

Foxhill

Foxhill motocross circuit: a motocross circuit near Foxhill in the English county of Wiltshire

John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton

In 1448 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stourton, of Stourton in the County of Wiltshire.

Lord Holland

Baron Holland, of Holland in the County of Lincoln, and Baron Holland, of Foxley in the County of Wiltshire, were two titles in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Lord Kennet

Baron Kennet, of the Dene in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Malmesbury Hundred

Malmesbury was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the north of the county and centring on the historic borough and market town of Malmesbury.

Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Playhouse is a theatre in the English county of Wiltshire.

Swanborough Hundred

Swanborough was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, mostly lying in the centre of the county to the south of the town of Devizes.

Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Villiers was raised to the peerage as Baron Hyde of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire.

Wiltshire County Cricket Club

He mentions a match at Stockton, Wiltshire in 1799 which was reported as "an event so novel in the county of Wiltshire".

Wiltshire North

North Wiltshire, a former local government district in the county of Wiltshire, South-West England