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
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



A surprise museum, well worth a visit. If you have half an hour to spare then I would definitely recommend a visit.