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Aldbourne
|
1940 AD |
Severe flooods in the centre of the village |
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Calne
|
1940 AD |
Stellex works opens (closed c.1990) |
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Chippenham
|
1940 AD |
About half of Chippenham's population employed in engineering, mostly at Westinghouse |
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Downton
|
1940 AD |
German landmines landed in the water meadows and on the Cross in the middle of Downton Borough. |
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Hullavington
|
1940 AD |
14th August, the airfield is the subject of a German air attack. 7 killed and 6 seriously injured airmen and damaged an aircraft hanger |
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Keevil
|
1940 AD |
Spitfire fighter planes are built in Keevil |
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Keevil
|
1940 AD |
Womens Institute formed |
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Melksham
|
1940 AD |
RAF station built at Bowerhill |
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Minety
|
1940 AD |
A dummy aerodrome was built on The Moor, north of the Ashton Keynes road; search lights were erected in Minety Park |
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Ramsbury
|
1940 AD |
Board School becomes a County Primary School |
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Ramsbury
|
1940 AD |
A right to hold marriages in the Church of St. Michael at Axford granted |
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Sherston
|
1940 AD |
Local defence volunteers are called in to being by Anthony Eden |
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Sherston
|
1940 AD |
New silk factory established by the Plant Engineering Co. of Birmingham; Mr and Mrs Cooper become the owners of the Foresters' Arms |
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Westbury
|
1940 AD |
Two Congregational Churches reunited |
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Wilton
|
1940 AD |
Wilton Church of England Senior School becomes a secondary modern and renamed Wilton Church of England Controlled Secondary Modern School |
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Wootton Bassett
|
1940 AD |
Wootton Bassett Lake is purchased by the Parish Council |
