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Aldbourne
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1968 AD |
The Queen Victoria inn closed; Wesleyan Methodists join the Primitive Methodists to form Aldbourne Methodist Church in a newly built hall in Lottage Road which is also used as the Methodist Youth Centre |
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Box
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1968 AD |
Clift Mine was closed |
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Broughton Gifford
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1968 AD |
Flooding again causes problems for travelling on Broughton Gifford's roads. |
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Calne
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1968 AD |
A new section of road joining High Street to Curzon street is built south of the King's Arms Hotel and the north section of High Street between the Hotel and Wood Street is pedestrianised; Calne Junior School is replaced by St. Dunstan School and Priestley School |
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Chippenham
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1968 AD |
Monkton Park School opens; new Church of St. Peter built and consecrated |
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Great Somerford
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1968 AD |
The Mason's Arms closed |
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Minety
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1968 AD |
St Leonard's School shut |
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Purton
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1968 AD |
New buildings built for St. Mary's school on the Playing Fields |
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Ramsbury
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1968 AD |
New doctors' surgery and dispensary built |
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Westbury
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1968 AD |
Laverton County Infant's School moved to Eden Vale and renamed Westbury Infant's School |
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Wootton Bassett
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1968 AD |
Juniors from the British School move to the newly built Noremarsh Community Junior School in Clarendon Drive |
