A rural county?

Wiltshire, like many British counties, is a predominantly rural area, containing no large cities, and it might be expected that sites in rural areas away from population centres might offer a reasonable view of the night sky.

Grant Privett has been photographing such sites, and the impact of wasted light is all too evident in the following photos.

Stonehenge The view from Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain towards Amesbury, 4km away. Amesbury is not a big town - a perfect example of how light from even a minor population centre can travel at low angles to spoil the sky far away.
Wilton Parish Church The Parish Church at Wilton, illuminated at night by two major floodlights and two lesser lights. This Italianate-Victorian style church is a striking building, but does it really need to be saturated by over-bright upward lighting when the tourists have gone home?
Old Sarum, near Salisbury. Previously a quiet and reasonably sensibly illuminated village, to which a housing estate is being added. New lighting in the area shows, according to one critic, a "spectacular lack of thought", overkill and poor directionality being the norm, and lights being left on when there is nobody around who might feasibly benefit from their presence.