Chilton Foliat

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Chilton Foliat is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 394. The services are very limited, with no shop, but a pub called The Wheatsheaf.

It was the location for successful gardening programmes produced by the BBC such as The Victorian Kitchen Garden.

The town is also referred to in the HBO series Band of Brothers, as the location where Captain Herbert Sobel was sent to train non-combat military support personnel who needed paratrooper training.

1 Local government
2 Location
3 See also
4 External links
5 Sources

[edit] Local government

Chilton Foliat is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It falls within the areas of Kennet District Council and Wiltshire County Council. All three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.

[edit] Location

Chilton Foliat is in the extreme east of the county of Wiltshire, on the banks of the River Kennet in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The small Berkshire town of Hungerford is only one mile to the south.

Position: grid reference SU323703

Nearby towns and cities: Hungerford, Marlborough, Newbury, Swindon

Nearby villages: Ramsbury, Aldbourne, Lambourn, Leverton (Hungerford)

Nearby places of interest: Littlecote House