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Wilton Windmill, the Glossary

The Wilton Windmill is a five-floor brick tower mill, standing on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire.^[1]

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Museums in Wiltshire
Windmills completed in 1821
Windmills in Wiltshire

BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Burbage, Wiltshire

Burbage is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Crofton Pumping Station

Crofton Pumping Station, near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water. Wilton Windmill and Crofton Pumping Station are Georgian architecture in Wiltshire and Museums in Wiltshire.

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Grafton, Wiltshire

Grafton is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the Vale of Pewsey about southeast of Marlborough.

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Great Bedwyn

Great Bedwyn is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England.

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Hungerford

Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, west of Newbury, east of Marlborough, north-east of Salisbury and 60 miles (97 km) west of London.

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Kennet and Avon Canal

The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of, made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal.

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List of windmills in Wiltshire

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Wiltshire. Wilton Windmill and list of windmills in Wiltshire are windmills in Wiltshire.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Newbury is a market town in West Berkshire, England, in the valley of the River Kennet.

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Pewsey

Pewsey is a village and civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about south of Marlborough and west of London.

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Pewsey White Horse

Pewsey White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse near the village of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England.

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Shalbourne

Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about southwest of Hungerford, Berkshire.

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Swindon

Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.

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The Style Council

The Style Council were a British band formed in late 1982 by Paul Weller, the former lead vocalist, principal songwriter and guitarist with the Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Runners, the Bureau and the Merton Parkas.

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Victorian Farm

Victorian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in six parts, first shown on BBC Two in January 2009, and followed by three Christmas-themed parts in December of the same year.

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Wilton Water

Wilton Water (or Wide Waters) is a small reservoir, southwest of the village of Great Bedwyn in the English county of Wiltshire, which supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council, known between 1889 and 2009 as Wiltshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Wiltshire in South West England.

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Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust

The Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust (founded in 1967, sometimes abbreviated WHBT) is a charitable organisation which works to preserve the architectural heritage of Wiltshire, in the West of England.

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Windmill

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

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Windmill fantail

A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_Windmill