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Aldbourne
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1858 |
High Town foundry closed; new National School opened |
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Box
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1858 |
A new cemetery covering 3 acres was built, as the graveyard at the Church of St. Thomas à Becket was no longer able to be used |
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Broughton Gifford
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1858 |
48 students attending Broughton Gifford school, 20 receiving free education. |
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Calne
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1858 |
Sewers are laid in High Street and Curzon Street; a hospital for children is opened |
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Chippenham
|
1858 |
Railway Station built by Rowland Brotherhood using stone from the excavation of Box Tunnel |
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Corsham
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1858 |
Hartham Park purchased by T. H. A. Poynder who begins to enlarge and improve the house using the designs of architct Philip Hardwick: Pickwick Elememtary School opens: Lady Methuen's School and the National School for girls amalgamated as Methuen Elementary School |
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Cricklade
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1858 |
Fire engine with hand pump purchased and building erected in Bath Road to house it |
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Hullavington
|
1858 |
Stone rubble chapel improved |
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Marlborough
|
1858 |
St. Mary's School opened in Herd Street |
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Melksham
|
1858 |
Rachel Fowler founds and endows 5 almshouses |
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Minety
|
1858 |
Primitive Methodist chapel built |
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Pewsey
|
1858 |
A school held in the Union Workhouse is in existence by this time |
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Purton
|
1858 |
School built at Braydon |
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Westbury
|
1858 |
First bank in Westbury, the North Wilts Banking Co., opened |
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Wootton Bassett
|
1858 |
Primitive Methodist day school sold to the British & Foreign Society and becomes the British School |
