Useful Links

• Wiltshire History Centre -enormous resource, including Wiltshire & Swindon Archives
• Wiltshire Community History
• Wiltshire Treasures -search a database of some Wiltshire museums’ collections
• Culture 24 -national portal to museums, heritage and arts
• Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
• Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre
• Wiltshire Geology Group
• Wikipedia -the entry for Bradford on Avon
• The National Trust -three properties in the Bradford area and more nearby (Bath, Dyrham, Lacock)
• Wiltshire Family History Society
• The Allen Gallery, Alton, Hampshire -drawings and paintings of Bradford by W.H. Allen
• Six English Towns -1981 BBC television programme about Bradford’s architecture

Local

• Bradford on Avon Town Council
• Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust
• Bradford on Avon Tourist Information
• Bradford on Avon Community Website
• Freshford.com -Maps, photographs and transcriptions of documents on Bradford & Limpley Stoke
• Atworth
• Avoncliff
• Great Chalfield Manor House
• Limpley Stoke
• Westwood
• Iford Manor
• Winsley

Wiltshire Museums

• Trowbridge Museum – Town Council museum covering the town and the villages southwards to Salisbury Plain, with a special interest in the woollen cloth industry.
• Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes -The premier collection of archaeology in northern Wiltshire, belonging to the Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History Society; also now holds the Wiltshire Folklife collection.
• Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock -National Trust museum of photography
• Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes – The K&A Trust’s museum.
• Chippenham Museum – Town Council museum
• Dewey Museum, Warminster – Independent local history collection displayed in the library.
• Pewsey Heritage – Independent collection in an agricultural engineer’s works.
• Market Lavington Museum – Small independent local history collection
• The Merchant’s House, Marlborough
• Mere Museum – website no longer exists
• Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum – The main museum of southern Wiltshire
• Castle Combe Museum – Museum closed and looking for a new home
• Cricklade Museum – website no longer exists
• Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury – Formerly North Wiltshire Council, now independent
• Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury – English Heritage’s museum of Avebury archaeology
• Purton Museum – Independent museum of local history and archaeology.
• Steam, Swindon -The museum of the Great Western Railway
• Swindon Museum & Art Gallery -municipal multi-disciplinary museum
• Lydiard Park, near Swindon
• The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury -The Wiltshire Regiment

• Calne Heritage Centre
• Corsham Area Heritage & Information Centre
• Westbury Visitor Centre

Somerset Museums

• Frome Museum -Local history, especially of Singer’s iron foundry
• Radstock Museum -With a special focus on the Somerset coalfield
• Castle Cary & District Museum -Local museum in the Market Hall
• Museum of Bath at Work -Bowler’s engineering and mineral water works, a stone quarry and more
• Building of Bath Museum -How Bath’s Georgian houses were built, with great relevance to Bradford’s Georgian buildings too
• Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
• The Roman Baths, Bath
• Holburne Museum, Bath -Art gallery re-opened after major building and redisplay work
• American Museum, Claverton -Unique collection of early Americana
• Wells Museum -History of the city and the Mendip Hills
• Glastonbury Museum of Somerset Rural Life
• Chard Museum -Fairly large town museum
• Wincanton Museum -The homeless museum may be finding space in the library

Dorset Museums

• Gillingham Museum -Museum for the town and Blackmore Vale
• Shaftesbury Museum & Abbey -Gold Hill Museum, now re-opened after rebuilding and redisplay
• Sherborne Museum -Town, Abbey, Castle and School
• Blandford Forum Museum -400 years of Blandford’s history and more

Gloucestershire Museums

• Corinium Museum, Cirencester -Where to learn more about the Romans in the Cotswolds
• The Museum in the Park, Stroud -Another Cotswolds wool and canal town