Urban and rural: head on in Wiltshire

From Salisbury's chalk streams to Swindon's shiny new corporate HQs, it would be difficult to find so much variety in one place.

But somehow Wiltshire manages to
achieve just that.

While there are differences between the north and the south of the county, east Wiltshire's downland contrasts with the lowlands of west Wiltshire.

History tells us that people living up on the chalk were sheep farmers, who went to church rather than chapel and in the Civil War supported the Royalist cause.

The low-lying pastures around Trowbridge and Bradford-on-Avon lent themselves to dairy farming, the people were more likely to be chapel goers and more puritan in their politics.

And it seems that, even today, Wiltshire's geography continues to influence the county's Moonrakers and how they feel about where they live.

Viewpoints: East Wiltshire

Viewpoints: South Wiltshire

Viewpoints: West Wiltshire

Viewpoints: North Wiltshire