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Wilton

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Wilton, town, United States

Wilton, town (1990 pop. 15,989), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled c.1701, inc. 1802. It is a residential and agricultural town.

Wilton, town, England

Wilton, town (1991 pop. 4,005), Wiltshire, S central England. Carpets have been made in Wilton for centuries. Felt and farm machinery are other important products. Three sheep fairs are held annually. Wilton was an ancient capital of Wessex Wessex (wĕs`ĭks), one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England.
..... Click the link for more information.  and the residence of Saxon kings. In the 9th cent., Wilton was the site of a battle between King Alfred and the Danes. The town was a bishopric until 1050. Wilton House, in which Philip Sidney Sidney or Sydney, Sir Philip, 1554–86, English author and courtier. He was one of the leading members of Queen Elizabeth's court and a model of Renaissance chivalry.
..... Click the link for more information.  wrote Arcadia, was partly designed by Inigo Jones Jones, Inigo (ĭn`ĭgō'), 1573–1652, one of England's first great architects.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is the seat of the earl of Pembroke.
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"If he makes out you can have him for twenty dollars," Collins told the man, Wilton Davis.
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At Eshur, at Stowe, at Wilton, at Eastbury, and at Prior's Park, days are too short for the ravished imagination; while we admire the wondrous power of art in improving nature.
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He found her lying on the great polar-bear skin in their bedroom, half-undressed, for they were dining with the Greens in Wilton Crescent, the ruddy firelight making the diamonds wink and twinkle on her bare arms and in the delicious curve of her breast-- a vision of adorable femininity.
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