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BRADFORD ON AVON is a medieval 'wool' town with thriving art and craft galleries and a remarkable Saxon Church. Visit www.westwiltshire.gov.uk or www.wiltshiretourism.co.uk or call the Tourist Information Centre on 01225 865797. There are many fine old cottages and houses built of the local golden coloured limestone. Bradford on Avon is a busy market town with antique shops, art galleries and craft workshops as well as cafes and restaurants. The town is built on the steep banks of the River Avon, which is crossed by two historic bridges, one of which includes an intriguing tiny jail converted from a chapel! Bradford thrived during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on its the textile industry and there are magnificent old mills and riverside wharves dating from this time. But the most important building is that tiny St Laurence church, a Saxon building dating from around 700AD.

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