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Aldbourne
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1844 AD |
Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in Lottage Road replacing the earlier chapel |
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Chippenham
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1844 AD |
British School opens in Ladd's Lane (moves to Wood's Lane in 1856) |
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Marlborough
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1844 AD |
The Marlborough Reading and Mutual Improvement Society formed; agricultural machinery is being manufactured in the town; there are 7 cheese factors in the town |
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Minety
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1844 AD |
Railway line and station become part of the Great Western Railway; Minety transferred to the Malmesbury hundred |
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Purton
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1844 AD |
Licensee of the Bell inn at Purton Stoke prosecuted for keeping a disorderly house |
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Sherston
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1844 AD |
British Schoolrooms opened in Back Street |
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Westbury
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1844 AD |
British Girl's School in Lower Road opened |
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Wilton
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1844 AD |
Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas in West Street built on the site of an earlier church of St. Nicholas replacing the Church of St. Mary, Brede Street as the parish church of Wilton |
