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Bulford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, close to Salisbury Plain. The Bulford Camp army base is separate from the village but within the parish. The village is part of 'Bulford, Allington and Figheldean' electoral ward. The ward starts in the north at Figheldean, stretches south through Bulford and ends in the south at Allington. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 6,018.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bulford, Allington and Figheldean ward 2011 )〕 The name is derived from the Old English ''bulut ieg ford'' meaning 'ragged robin island ford'. It is recorded in the Wiltshire Charter Rolls of 1199 as ''Bultiford'' and as ''Bultesforda'' in 1270. It is then recorded as ''Bulteforde'' in the Ecclesiastical Tax Records of 1291.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bulford )〕 The village is close to Durrington, Amesbury and Larkhill. Avondale School in the village is a private preparatory school that educates, amongst others, some of the children from the army camp. Bulford was served by a railway station between 1906 and 1963. The Bulford Kiwi a large chalk kiwi on the hill above the village. The village is the site of the confluence of the Nine Mile River with the River Avon. ==See also== * Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bulford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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