* King Alfred's Tower, Stourhead, Wiltshire, England

The source of the river is at Stourhead, in Wiltshire, where it forms a series of artificial lakes which are part of the Stourhead estate owned by the National Trust.

Stourhead () is a 1, 072-hectare ( 2, 650-acre ) estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England.

He died at Stourhead, Wiltshire, in 1838.

Villa Borghese: the 19th century " Temple of Aesculapius " built purely as a landscape feature, influenced by the lake at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England.

The manor was bought in the 1780s by the Hoares of Stourhead in Wiltshire.

The latter's site reports and descriptions were published by Hoare in a book entitled Ancient Historie of Wiltshire in 1810, a copy of which is kept at Stourhead.

* Stourhead, Wiltshire, 1721 – 24, as a seat for the London-based banker Henry Hoare.

* Stourhead, Wiltshire: 1744 – 65.

Stourhead, in Wiltshire ( 1741 – 80 ), created by banker Henry Hoare, was one of first ' picturesque ' gardens, inspired to resemble the paintings of Claude Lorrain.

File: Stourhead House 02. jpg | Stourhead, showing later wings and portico added to Campbell's design in 1840

Although the main design for the estate at Stourhead was created by Colen Campbell, there were various other architects involved in its evolution through the years.

Brown's patrons saw the idealized landscapes he was creating for them in terms of the Italian landscape painters they admired and collected, as Kenneth Woodbridge first observed in the landscape at Stourhead, a " Brownian " landscape with an un-Brownian circuit walk in which Brown himself was not involved.

It ’ s assumed that his contribution to Stourhead was in this capacity.

* Stourhead House was featured on the cover of English indie rock band Milburn's single What Will You Do ( When The Money Goes )?

The family seat, until 1717, was Stourhead.

Palladian revival: Stourhead | Stourhead House, South facade, was designed by Colen Campbell and completed in 1720.

Due to his book Vitruvius Britannicus, Colen Campbell was chosen as the architect for banker Henry Hoare I's Stourhead house ( illustration below ), a masterpiece that became the inspiration for dozens of similar houses across England.

Hoare was an extremely wealthy man, having inherited the Stourhead estate from his grandfather in 1785.

The central Wörlitzer Park, adjacent to the small town of Wörlitz, was laid out between 1769 and 1773 by the Duke Leopold III, based on the models of Claremont, Stourhead and Stowe Landscape Garden.

According to historian Ken Duxbury, such structures added a picturesque charm to the landscape, highlighting points of visual interest along the trail of the paths and serving a role not dissimilar to the grottos, classical temples, follies, hermitages and pagodas along the circuit walks of the classic ‘ English Landscape School ’ gardens such as Stourhead.

Thanks to the revival of interest in Palladio and Inigo Jones, soon Neo-Palladian villas dotted the valley of the River Thames and English countryside: such as Stourhead by Colen Campbell-1720, Holkham Hall-1730 ; Woburn Abbey by Henry Flitcroft and Henry Holland-1744 ; and Chiswick House by William Kent-1788.

His sole heir and son, Captain " Harry " Henry Colt Arthur Hoare, of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, had died of wounds received at the Battle of Mughar Ridge on 13 November 1917 in World War I. Captain " Harry " Hoare is commemorated by a plaque on the Memorial Hall at Stourhead.

* Dodd, Dudley, Stourhead, published by The National Trust, 1981

* Woodbridge, Kenneth, 1982, The Stourhead Landscape, reprinted by the National Trust 2001

Palladian revival: Stourhead House, South facade, designed by Colen Campbell and completed in 1720.

Later styles are represented by Longford Castle, near Salisbury, where the picture galleries are of great interest ; by Heytesbury House ; by Wilton House at Wilton, Kingston House at Bradford-upon-Avon, Bowood House near Calne, Longleat near Warminster, Corsham Court at Corsham, Littlecote near Ramsbury, Chariton House near Malmesbury, Compton Chamberlayne in the Nadder valley, Grittleton House and the modern Castle Combe, both near Chippenham and Stourhead, on the borders of Dorset and Somerset.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

These form part of the Europe-wide Megalithic culture which also produced Stonehenge in Wiltshire, and which pre-historians now interpret as showing sophisticated use of astronomical observations.

The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap, part of the Icknield Way which ran, not always on the ridge, from Salisbury Plain to East Anglia.

* North Sheen Recreation Ground in Dancer Road, known locally as " The Rec ", was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.

This is part of a county-wide commitment by Wiltshire Council to deliver services in a more community focussed way that relates more directly to the needs and aspirations of local people via Community Area Partnerships.

and Elbląg in Poland, as part of West Wiltshire district twinning, since 2000.

Before 1844, the north of the parish of Wokingham was part of a detached portion, or exclave, of the county of Wiltshire, the border of which is some to the west.

Northern Wokingham, centred on Ashridge, was, archaically, a detached part of Wiltshire.

He also painted part of a ceiling in Buckingham House, and a room with poetical subjects at Standlynch in Wiltshire.

Edington, Wiltshire is known to have been part of Alfred's family estate.

Before his breakthrough, Vandross was part of a singing quintet in the late ' 70s named Luther, consisting of former Shades of Jade members Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler, Theresa V. Reed, and Christine Wiltshire, signed to Cotillion Records.

( and two other men ), and daughter of Sir Thomas Paul Latham, 1st Bt .. Stewart and Audrey were both over age 50 at the time of their marriage, each had separate estates ( his in Wiltshire, west of London, hers in Essex, east of London ), and they for the most part lived separately, but they met in London for dinner each Wednesday.

It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, with a little in Hampshire.

The DCMS-supported website Icons of England defines the West Country as including Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, and the former Avon area, but excluding Gloucestershire ( defined as part of the " West Midlands ") and Dorset ( in " South England ").

Bowland survives as the northwestern remainder of the ancient wilderness that once stretched over a huge part of England, encompassing the Forest of Bowland, Sherwood Forest ( Nottinghamshire ), the New Forest ( Hampshire ) and Savernake Forest ( Wiltshire ).

It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.

The parish is on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and reaches out into the Wiltshire countryside, serving the people of the town of Warminster and the many villages around ; and also serves the Mass Centre of St Mary in Mere at the south part of the parish.

East Wansdyke in Wiltshire, on the south of the Marlborough Downs, has been less disturbed by later agriculture and building and remains more clearly traceable on the ground than the western part.

It was part of the ancient ridgeway which runs from Wiltshire down to the east coast of Kent.

Healthcare and Ambulance response services in Devizes are provided NHS Wiltshire, part of NHS South West and Great Western Ambulance Service respectively.

It was created by writ in 1491 for Sir Robert Willoughby, of the manor of Broke, part of Westbury, Wiltshire, who according to modern doctrine was de jure 9th Baron Latimer.

The tribe lived in the part of southwestern Britain that today broadly coincides with the English counties of North Somerset, Bristol, and Gloucestershire ; although at times their territory may have extended into parts of what are now Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire.

This region encompasses the city of Bristol and the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Wiltshire are usually also included, although the northern and eastern boundaries of the area are hard to define and historically Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which were also part of Wessex, were, and sometimes still are included.

* 2491 ( Lyneham ) Squadron, an Air Training Corps squadron, part of the Dorset and Wiltshire Wing.