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Aldbourne
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1844 |
Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in Lottage Road replacing the earlier chapel |
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Chippenham
|
1844 |
British School opens in Ladd's Lane (moves to Wood's Lane in 1856) |
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Marlborough
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1844 |
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 |
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 |
Licensee of the Bell inn at Purton Stoke prosecuted for keeping a disorderly house |
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Sherston
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1844 |
British Schoolrooms opened in Back Street |
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Westbury
|
1844 |
British Girl's School in Lower Road opened |
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Wilton
|
1844 |
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 |
