Aldbourne Heritage Centre

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Pigot’s Directory of Wiltshire 1830

Ramsbury, Aldbourn and Neighbours Ramsbury is a large village in the parish and hundred of its name, 70 miles from London, 7 from Marlborough, and 5 from Hungerford; pleasantly situated upon the river Kennet, upon which are some corn mills. In the time of the Saxons this was a place of some consequence, being the...

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Kellys Directory of Wiltshire 1911

Aldbourne is a village and parish, pleasantly situated in a fertile valley on the road from Swindon to Hungerford, 4½ miles east from Ogbourn station on the Cheltenham branch of the London and South Western railway, 8 miles north-west from Hungerford and 7½ north-east from Marlborough, in the Eastern division of the country, hundred of...

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