Useful Links
- Wiltshire History Centre -enormous resource, including Wiltshire & Swindon Archives
- Wiltshire Buildings Record -information about buildings
- Wiltshire Community History -histories of Wiltshire parishes
- Wiltshire Treasures -search a database of some Wiltshire museums’ collections
- Culture 24 -national portal to museums, heritage and arts
- The National Archives
- Council for British Archaeology
- Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre
- Wiltshire Geology Group
- Wiltshire Archaeology Field 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
- Wiltshire Soldiers -who died in the Great War
- 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
- Bradford on Avon Community Area Network
- 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 (* seasonal opening)
- Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury – English Heritage’s museum of Avebury archaeology
- Castle Combe Museum – Museum is closed and looking for a new home
- Chippenham Museum – Town Council museum
- Cricklade Museum * -volunteer-run museum of the town and its district
- Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes – The K&A Trust’s museum.
- Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes -The premier collection of archaeology in northern Wiltshire, belonging to the Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History Society; now also holds the Wiltshire Folklife collection.
- Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock -National Trust museum of photography
- Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury – Formerly North Wiltshire Council, now independent
- Market Lavington Museum * – Small independent local history collection
- The Merchant’s House, Marlborough
- Mere Museum – website no longer exists, but visit Mere Heritage
- Pewsey Heritage Centre – Independent collection in an agricultural engineer’s works (reopens this year)
- Purton Museum – Independent museum of local history and archaeology, in the library.
- Steam, Swindon -The museum of the Great Western Railway
- Swindon Museum & Art Gallery -municipal multi-disciplinary museum
- Lydiard Park, near Swindon -stately home art gallery/museum
- Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum – The main museum of southern Wiltshire
- The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury -The Wiltshire Regiment
- Trowbridge Museum – Town Council museum, with a special interest in the woollen cloth industry.
- Dewey Museum, Warminster – Local history society collection, displayed in the library.
- The Science Museum, Wroughton
- Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
- Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum, Calne -private car museum
- Calne Heritage Centre
- Corsham Area Heritage & Information Centre
- Westbury Visitor Centre
Somerset Museums (* seasonal opening)
- 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 -Municipal art gallery with a large collection and major exhibitions
- The Roman Baths, Bath
- Holburne Museum, Bath -Art gallery re-opened after major building and redisplay work
- Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Bath
- Herschel Museum of Astronomy, Bath
- Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
- Castle Cary & District Museum * -Local museum in the Market Hall
- Chard Museum * -Fairly large town museum
- American Museum, Claverton * -Unique collection of early Americana
- Frome Museum * -Local history, especially of Singer’s iron foundry
- Glastonbury Museum of Somerset Rural Life
- Radstock Museum -With a special focus on the Somerset coalfield
- Saltford Brassmill *
- Wells Museum -Heritage of the city and of the western Mendip Hills
- Wincanton Museum -Currently homeless, but may be finding some space in the library
Some Dorset Museums (* seasonal opening)
- Beaminster Museum * -local history and ammonites
- Blandford Forum Museum * -400 years of Blandford’s history and more
- Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
- Gillingham Museum * -Museum for the town and Blackmore Vale
- Shaftesbury Museum & Abbey * -Gold Hill Museum has now re-opened after rebuilding and redisplay
- Sherborne Museum * -Town, Abbey, Castle and School
Some Gloucestershire Museums
- Corinium Museum, Cirencester -Where to learn more about the Romans in the Cotswolds
- Frenchay Museum & Archives -village museum in the hospital grounds
- The Museum in the Park, Stroud -A Cotswolds wool and canal town, like Bradford
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