Corston, Wiltshire
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Corston is a small village on the A429 road
in Wiltshire
, England
- approximately 3 miles south of the town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The Gauze Brook
, a tributary of the Bristol Avon passes through the village.
The Fry chocolate
family trace their roots to the village of Corston.
A429 road
The A429 is a main road in England that runs in a north-northeasterly direction from junction 17 of the M4 motorway to Coventry in the West Midlands, by way of Malmesbury, Cirencester, Stow-on-the-Wold, Moreton-in-Marsh, east of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Kenilworth.For much of its length...
in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
- approximately 3 miles south of the town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The Gauze Brook
Gauze Brook
The Gauze Brook is a stream in the West Country of England, which rises near the village of Littleton Drew in Wiltshire, England and flows in a north easterly direction for approximately before joining the Bristol Avon near the village of Little Somerford....
, a tributary of the Bristol Avon passes through the village.
The Fry chocolate
Fry Family (Chocolate)
The Fry family was prominent in England especially Bristol, in the Society of Friends, and in the confectionery business in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.-Origins:...
family trace their roots to the village of Corston.