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Broughton Gifford
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1888 AD |
School closes for 2 weeks due to a measles outbreak, Moses Thomas replaces Alfred Noyce as headmaster of the school. |
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Calne
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1888 AD |
C & T Harris & Co. bacon factory formed by amalgamation of 2 existing factories; an isolation hospital is built north of Curzon Street (closed c.1934) |
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Corsham
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1888 AD |
Corsham Town Band founded |
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Marlborough
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1888 AD |
Marlborough Golf Club founded |
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Melksham
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1888 AD |
Matravers Mill, the last cloth mill, is sold to Avon India Ribber Company Ltd following a century of decline in the clothing industry; Wilts United Dairies, founded by Charles Maggs at West End Farm, moves to New Broughton Road |
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Ramsbury
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1888 AD |
Methodist chapel built at Axford; responsibility for roads in the parish taken over by Ramsbury Rural District Council from 2 Way Wardens |
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Westbury
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1888 AD |
Leighton House acquired by William Henry Laverton and extensive alterations and extensions undertaken |
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Wilton
|
1888 AD |
Markets are no longer held by this time |
