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Odstock

Odstock is a village in the county of Wiltshire, two miles south of Salisbury. In the woods about Odtock one can see earthworks. The meaning of the name is probably "Odo's stockade".

Odstock Hospital - now Salisbury District Hospital - is famous for its specialist burns and spinal units.

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