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Wiltshire

With a (1,346 square miles) 3,485 km2 area, (/ˈwɪlt.ʃər, -ʃɪər/; abbreviated Wilts) Wiltshire is in South West England. After which the county is named, the county town was Wilton, but Wiltshire CC is now in Trowbridge. Moonrakers is the nickname for Wiltshire natives.

In the county's north-western corner, part of the Cotswolds AONB is in Wiltshire. The Borough of Swindon in November 2008 announced plans for a projected University of Swindon or University of Wiltshire, but the scheme remains uncommitted. Redlands Airfield, Clench Common Airfield, and Old Sarum Airfield include airfields in Wiltshire.

Settlements on hills and downland that cover Wiltshire were built by the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain. To raise a body of independent troops for the county of Wiltshire, which formed the basis for the Yeomanry of Royal Wiltshire (what it would become), who served both abroad and at home with distinction, during the various wars, it was decided at a meeting at the Bear Inn in Devizes in 1794.

Providing a route to London from Bristol for transporting cargoes until the Great Western Railway development, the Canal of Kennet and Avon was built around 1800 through Wiltshire. A distinctive employment structure is noticeable in Wiltshire as it has a higher number of people in various forms of manufacturing (especially electrical equipment and apparatus, beverages and food products, furniture, pharmaceuticals, rubber, and plastic goods) than the national average.

In the North Wiltshire and West Wiltshire districts that were former, all but two of the county secondary schools have sixth forms, but half of those in the rest of the county. Ruled by Wiltshire CC and Swindon BC, Wiltshire and Swindon are unitary authority areas that the Wiltshire county that is ceremonial consists of.

The football league club in Wiltshire, Swindon Town, is located in the County Ground, Swindon. In Minor Counties league plays Wiltshire County Cricket Club. Wiltshire has a temperate climate which is wetter and milder than the rest of the country, along with the rest of South West England.