What is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county of South West England, that arose from a folk tale?
Moonrakers Moonrakers Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country of England. This name refers to a folk story set in the time when smuggling was a significant industry in rural England, with Wiltshire lying on the smugglers' secret routes between the south coast and customers in the centre of the country. The story goes that some local people had hidden contraband barrels of French brandy from customs officers in a village pond. While trying to retrieve it at night, they were caught by the revenue men, but explained themselves by pointing to the
Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire County Council (established in 1889) was the county council of Wiltshire in the South West of England, an elected local Government body responsible for most local government services in the county. As a result of the 2009 restructuring of local government in some parts of England, the council was merged with four district councils into a new unitary authority for Wiltshire with effect from 1 April 2009. So that it would inherit existing contracts without a break, the new authority was then treated as a "continuing authority", and it covers exactly the same area, although renamed