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Triforium The rounded arches of the triforium in the Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, Eng.

North Wiltshire

former district, England, United Kingdom
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North Wiltshire, former district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, located in the northwestern part of the county some 20 miles (32 km) east of Bristol. North Wiltshire bestrides the upper reaches of the Avon river valley. It is a fertile clay plain extending into the Cotswold Hills on the west and bordered by the steep chalk escarpment of the Marlborough Downs on the east; in the north is a headwaters area for...

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