Wiltshire

**Wiltshire**


Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region:	South West England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 14th 2,165 miles² (3,485 km²) Ranked 13th 2,022 miles² (3,255 km²)
Admin HQ:	Trowbridge
ISO 3166-2:	GB-WIL
ONS code:	46
NUTS 3:	UKK15
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 34th 630,700 181 / km² Ranked 30th 446,700
Ethnicity:	97.5% White
Politics
Wiltshire County Council http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/
Executive	Conservative
Members of Parliament	Michael Ancram James Gray Robert Key Andrew Murrison Anne Snelgrove Michael Wills
Districts
Salisbury West Wiltshire Kennet North Wiltshire Swindon (Unitary)

Wiltshire (short: Wilts) is an English county. It borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. The county town is Trowbridge, in the west of the county at 51°19′11″N, 2°12′32″W. The county covers 858,931 acres (3476 km²)

Settlements

Notable towns and cities in Wiltshire are:

A full list of settlements is at List of places in Wiltshire.

Key
	Owned by the National Trust
	Owned by English Heritage
Forestry Commission	Owned by the Forestry Commission
	A Country Park
	An Accessible open space
	Museum (free)
	Museum (charges entry fee)
	Heritage railway
	Historic House

Notable places of interest in Wiltshire are:

Notable areas of countryside in Wiltshire are:

Notable routes through Wiltshire are:

Wiltshire is "Mid-Wessex" in the novels of Thomas Hardy

Wiltshire numbered districts
Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Stonehenge itself is owned and managed by English Heritage whilst the surrounding downland is owned by the National Trust.
Hand-drawn map of Wiltshire, 1576, by Christopher Saxton
Cherhill White Horse, east of Calne
Wiltshire population pyramid
The County Ground, Swindon is the home of Swindon Town, the only football league club in Wiltshire.
A bridge over the River Avon at Bradford-on-Avon
The flight of 16 locks at Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal