Alderton, Wiltshire
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Alderton shown within Wiltshire
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OS grid reference | ST840829 |
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Civil parish | Luckington |
Unitary authority | Wiltshire |
Shire county | Wiltshire |
Region | South West |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Wiltshire |
Fire | Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
EU Parliament | South West England |
Website | Luckington & Alderton Parish Council |
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Alderton is a village in Wiltshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Malmesbury. It is within the civil parish of Luckington.
The Anglican Church of St Giles is Grade II* listed.[1][2] It has a monument to Thomas Gore (1632–1684), a High Sheriff of Wiltshire and writer on heraldry.
The South Wales Main Line, the main railway from Swindon to Bristol and South Wales, runs close to the south of the village where it passes through the Alderton Tunnel.
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- Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Alderton in the Domesday Book
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