Wiltshire
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 . The county covers 858,931 acres (3476 km²) also Trowbridge is the Capital of Wiltshire.
Wiltshire within England | |
| Coordinates: 51°18′N 1°54′W / 51.3°N 01.9°WCoordinates: 51°18′N 1°54′W / 51.3°N 01.9°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South West |
| Established | Ancient |
| Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
| Members of Parliament | List of MPs |
| Police | Wiltshire Police |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Lord Lieutenant | Sarah Troughton |
| High Sheriff | Martin John Nye[1] |
| Area | [convert: needs a number] |
| • Ranked | of 48 |
| Population (2005 est.) | 630,700 |
| • Ranked | 34th of 48 |
| Density | 181/km2 (470/sq mi) |
| Ethnicity | 85.1% White British (2021) |
| Unitary authorities | |
| Councils | Wiltshire Council Swindon Borough Council |
| Districts | |
Districts of Wiltshire Unitary | |
| Districts | |
Settlements
Notable towns and cities in Wiltshire are:
- Bradford on Avon
- Calne
- Chippenham
- Devizes
- Malmesbury
- Marlborough
- Salisbury (city)
- Swindon
- Trowbridge
- Warminster
- Westbury
A full list of settlements is at List of places in Wiltshire.
Places of interest
| 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:
- A4 road
- M4 motorway
- A303 trunk road
- Fosse Way old Roman road
- Great Western Main Line railway
- Wessex Main Line railway
- Kennet and Avon Canal
- Swindon and Cricklade Railway

- Thames Path, a long-distance footpath
- Wiltshire Cycleway
- National Cycle Route 4
Wiltshire is "Mid-Wessex" in the novels of Thomas Hardy
- Wiltshire
Wiltshire Media
Cherhill White Horse, east of Calne
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
Other websites
- Wiltshire County Council
- List of Councillors Archived 2008-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Wiltshire Constabulary Online Archived 2005-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- BBC Wiltshire
- Wiltshire Tourist Office
- John Aubrey's The Natural History of Wiltshire
- White horses of Wiltshire Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
- Wiltshire Times & Chippenham News
- Geology map of Wiltshire (PDF)
- Wiltshire & Swindon Intelligence Network
- ↑ The High Sheriff of Wiltshire. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 29 October 2025.