Wiltshire

WILTSHIRE is a south-western inland shire to the south of the Thames, bounded on the north and north-west by Gloucestershire, on the north-east by Berkshire, on the southeast by Hampshire, on the south by Hampshire and Dorsetshire, and on the west by Somersetshire: its shape is that of an oblong, with irregular curves on twards on the east and west; it lies between 50° 551 and 51° 43' north latitude, and 1° 30' and 2° 22' west longitude.