Wiltshire - more than just Stonehenge

Years ago I learnt not to bother telling people that I live in Wiltshire. It usually just gets a blank look. So I took to telling them I live near Stonehenge. Most people, even Americans, can conjure up Stonehenge in their mind’s eye. When our kids went to university, they quickly adopted the same trick. But the list of places we could also use makes you wonder how Wiltshire remains hidden in plain sight. To live in Wiltshire means to live near Salisbury Cathedral. Near Avebury stone circle. Near Lacock, where countless period dramas and Harry Potter were filmed. Near where the world’s most famous canoe race starts. Near where Brunel based his Great Western Railways. Where crop circles appear. Where Wadworth’s beer is brewed and Dyson is based. Where the white horses are carved into chalk hillsides. Where the greatest cavalry battle of the English Civil War was fought. Near Longleat safari park. Near where the Army train on Salisbury Plain, the wildest, most untouched, open gra...