Talk:Wiltshire

Hungerford

Why is Hungerford listed as a town in Wiltshire...? I'm certain it's in Berkshire. Muntfish 13:18, 2004 Aug 26 (UTC)

Hungerford is not in Wiltshire. The Association of British Counties lists Hungerford as being in Berkshire. However, I do remember reading somewhere that there quite a few places in Berkshire that were technically in Wiltshire because they were part of a feudal manor based in Wiltshire. I think an act of parliament in the nineteenth century cleared that up. Perhaps, it is better not to list Hungerford as being in Wiltshire. Gareth Hughes 12:56, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You are correct about the parts of Wiltshire in the Berkshire. There is a bit about it on this page: Counties_(Detached_Parts)_Act_1844#Wiltshire. Some of that should probably be on here I think.--MarkyParky 23:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Jun Kazama

I have a question that concerns the Jun Kazama article: [1], saying that her fights in Tekken 2 take place here. If someone has a copy of the PSX version of the game and makes Jun the opponent in Practice mode, can you tell if this is Wiltshire? Thanx, --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 14:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Link

Perhaps the following link can be a useful source of information: [2] Shinobu 11:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Parts of Wiltshire to the south and east of Reading

The first series Ordnance Survey maps 7, 8 and 12 (dating from between 1817 and 1822) show three areas to the south and east of Reading as being Part of Wilts. One of these is centred around Spencers Wood, another around Farley Hill, and the last and largest stretches from just north of Wokingham north to Twyford. All of these must be 30 miles from the nearest part of what is now Wiltshire, and are now part of Berkshire (in so far as that county still exists). I suspect this article probably ought to cover this strange anomaly; both how it came to be, and when these places ceased to be in Wiltshire. Anybody know the answers. -- Chris j wood 12:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

They were part of Amesbury Hundred. I've tried to find an ecclesiastical connection with Amesbury Priory, without success. Not much help—sorry. --Old Moonraker 12:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Just seen a link to what might be the answer in prior discussion; I'll follow up. -- Chris j wood 12:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Here's a start: A few mentions of Amesbury Priory liberties in Berkshire from the Victoria County History. --Old Moonraker 13:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Least Ethnically-Diverse County in England

I had a "fact" quoted at me the other day that according to census info Wiltshire is the whitest county in England, or something like this. I was wondering if anyone could verify this, and if they can then I think it should be mentioned under Demographics. Static Sleepstorm (talk) 19:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The Estimated resident population by ethnic group and sex, mid-2005, (experimental statistics) released by the ONS says otherwise. Wiltshire has a White British percentage of 94.41% and a total white percentage (including White Irish and White Other) of about 97.09%. I will attempt to create a wiki table.

Council	% W/Brit	% White ALL
Northumberland	96.87	98.16
Halton UA	96.81	98.24
Hartlepool UA	96.81	97.91
Durham	96.71	97.99
Cumbria	96.65	98.39
Herefordshire, County of UA	96.28	98.14
Redcar and Cleveland UA	96.13	97.42
North East Lincolnshire UA	95.91	97.36
East Riding of Yorkshire UA	95.87	97.48
Shropshire	95.66	97.53
Derbyshire	95.64	97.35
Darlington UA	95.45	97.06
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	95.17	97.68
Lincolnshire	95.08	97.22
Somerset	95.08	97.42
Torbay UA	94.96	97.29
Warrington UA	94.83	96.95
Devon	94.76	97.38
North Yorkshire	94.72	97.39
North Lincolnshire UA	94.69	96.52
Blackpool UA	94.69	96.86
Isle of Wight UA	94.63	97.03
North Somerset UA	94.61	97.13
Cheshire	94.59	97.17
Dorset	94.59	97.18
Stockton-on-Tees UA	94.51	95.84
Staffordshire	94.48	96.2
Wiltshire	94.41	97.09
Plymouth UA	94.23	96.5
Poole UA	94	96.71
Norfolk	93.9	96.92
Rutland UA	93.87	96.8
Merseyside (Met County)	93.8	95.95
Worcestershire	93.77	96.11
Nottinghamshire	93.65	95.84
South Gloucestershire UA	93.44	95.89
Hampshire	93.42	96.35
Tyne and Wear (Met County)	93.14	95.05
Gloucestershire	92.88	95.83
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA	92.62	94.94
East Sussex	91.91	95.57
Telford and Wrekin UA	91.77	93.75
York UA	91.67	95.52
Stoke-on-Trent UA	91.64	93.23
West Berkshire UA	91.64	95.51
South Yorkshire (Met County)	91.5	93.33
Essex	91.41	94.72
Lancashire	91.25	93.37
Kent	91.13	94.67
West Sussex	91.12	94.82
Suffolk	90.82	95.3
Bath and North East Somerset UA	90.79	94.97
Warwickshire	90.79	94.01
Leicestershire	90.52	92.85
Southend-on-Sea UA	90.4	93.66
Middlesbrough UA	90.25	92.06
Medway UA	90.23	92.97
Bournemouth UA	90.19	94.78
Northamptonshire	89.67	93.31
Swindon UA	89.05	93.44
Thurrock UA	88.88	91.8
Portsmouth UA	87.74	91.85
Cambridgeshire	87.55	93.48
Oxfordshire	86.77	92.78
Bracknell Forest UA	86.71	92.28
Wokingham UA	86.71	91.71
Surrey	86.11	92.62
Bedfordshire	86.09	91.02
Greater Manchester (Met County)	85.52	88.91
Hertfordshire	85.45	91
Brighton and Hove UA	85.38	91.91
Buckinghamshire	85.07	90.26
ENGLAND	84.72	89.11
Southampton UA	84.48	89.33
Bristol, City of UA	84.32	89.32
West Yorkshire (Met County)	83.88	86.48
Milton Keynes UA	83.69	88.03
Peterborough UA	83.25	87.73
Derby UA	82.48	85.79
Windsor and Maidenhead UA	81.46	90.15
Reading UA	78.22	84.92
Nottingham UA	77.26	82.17
Blackburn with Darwen UA	75.28	77.27
West Midlands (Met County)	74.06	77.65
Outer London	62.58	71.82
Luton UA	61.27	67.97
Leicester UA	58.99	62.56
Slough UA	56.77	62.24
Inner London	51.6	66.25

Don't quote me on those figures though as I only did a few quick calculations and they are based on population estimates anyway. There won't be another Census until 2011. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:42, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Climate WP:COPYVIO

Most of this paragraph is a WP:COPYVIO from here. Although there is an acknowledgement after the last sentence, I don't believe it justifies the word-for-word copying. Other views requested. --Old Moonraker (talk) 11:37, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

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• OK, I signed up. Anyone else think we should have a project for Wiltshire? Not sure I want to run it because I'm looking at a project for listed buildings too, but I'd join in.Major_Clanger (talk) 22:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC) Or for Wessex?Major_Clanger (talk) 14:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I think this announcement is a bit of an over-reaction. Wikipedia's coverage of nearly all UK local government is poor, and before about 1980 almost non-existent. The new unitary authorities in England will call for quite minor changes to existing articles. On a Wiltshire WikiProject, I see little harm in it, but I'm not sure that such county projects do much good. All the real effort still has to be put in by individuals. Dzw49 (talk) 20:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

This thread has spurred me to begin Wiltshire County Council. Dzw49 (talk) 23:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Durrington's Town Status

I propose that Durrington be added to the list of towns in Wiltshire due to the fact that in April 2008 the Parish Council voted to unilaterally award itself town status. [3] Jordi22 (talk) 21:50, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Tourism

What about a line like this under the heading economy, or a new section of tourism:

Wiltshire is a popular tourist attraction for its crop circles and prehistoric sites.

- Steve3849 16:06, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Transport: Airports

The three "airports" listed are "airfields". --Old Moonraker (talk) 12:37, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Fixed Good call. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:27, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Abbreviation

The phrase "also abbreviated Wilts" doesn't ring true to me.

The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd edition simply says "also Wilts" (under the Wiltshire head word.)

I think it would be better to replace "also abbreviated Wilts" with "or County of Wilts"

Is my proposal more accurate?

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:13, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Y Done In the absence of any response. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:23, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Queen Saxburga

There is a red link in the article to Queen Saxburga which I can't find. Should this be Seaxburh of Wessex? Looking at the List of monarchs of Wessex it seems the most likely candidate.— Rod ^talk 16:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Rich Benke

?International snowboarder who 'hails' from Chippenham, how notable is he? Google brings zero hits. Richard Avery (talk) 11:49, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Doubtful even for the Chippenham article—should go. --Old Moonraker (talk) 12:42, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

English heritage in "Places of interest"

There is no english heritage icons in "Places of interest" section's list. While the icon for it is in the "Key" table on the right, no place is marked with it. Without even checking which actually belong to these, I'd say at least Stonehenge and Avebury are among those. 85.217.46.149 (talk) 00:39, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Wilshire or Wiltshire

Could someone with more skill than me please fix the disambiguation link - or explain why it say "Wilshire". Richard Avery (talk) 08:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I think the problem arises because some people use a pronounciation of the name which de-emphasizes the "t" so much that it effectively disappears. Thus, they may confuse Wiltshire with Wilshire. However, I tend to agree that the disambiguation link is itself confusing. I couldn't find any template that was clearer, so I adopted a "kludge" solution that could be clearer. If people object to this, I am happy for them to revert me here.  DDStretch  (talk) 10:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge

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