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The Flight
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With flight meeting locations all over the south west click on a balloon to find your closest, most convenient, meeting location in your area. Flights from Wiltshire locations are generally within the Shaftesbury/Stonehenge/Tytherley/ Fordingbridge area Codford St. Peter, Village Recreation FieldSecondary Meeting Location
WiltshireWiltshire, a rural county covering an area of 3,500 sq Km and full of diversity with superb countryside, market towns, the famous chalk hill carvings of the white horses and plenty of ‘mystical forces’. Wiltshire is full of intrigue, the famous World Heritage site of Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument, stands at Amesbury, and the enchanting stone circles lie at Avebury. During the summer the crop circles appear in the fields in the centre of Wiltshire’s numinous landscape and the county is also full of numerous ‘haunted houses’. Flights in Wiltshire meet at Salisbury, a traditional cathedral English city with medieval roots mixed with the vitality of modern life. The city boosts five rivers running through the town - Nadder, Ebble, Wylye, Bourne and Avon and is home to the world’s oldest working clock. With a flight from Salisbury you will see the prevailing city Cathedral, which boasts the tallest spire in Britain, set amongst the soothing cathedral close along with aerial views of the city and its many poised period homes. A balloon flight out of Salisbury gives stunning views stretching for miles with river valleys, ancient woodlands, numerous hamlets and Roman roads. On a clear day you could see to the north Salisbury Plain full of rich archaeology and featured in artwork by Constable, Stonehenge and the West Wiltshire Downs, to the east The New Forest and to the south Southampton, The Solent and The Isle of Wright.
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With the map to the right of this text you have the ability to zoom in and out and look around the local area as well as getting actual directions to and from the meeting location.