Vale of Pewsey
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The Vale of Pewsey or Pewsey Vale is an area of Wiltshire
, England
to the east of Devizes
and south of Marlborough, centred on the town of Pewsey
.
to the south from the Marlborough Downs to the north. It is around 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) long and around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) wide. At the western end is the town of Devizes. Larger settlements in the vale include Pewsey
and Burbage
with many smaller villages, the larger ones including Bishops Cannings
, Etchilhampton
, Urchfont
, Chirton
, Alton Priors, Woodborough, Milton Lilbourne
, Easton Royal
and Wootton Rivers
.
Although not itself part of the downs
, the vale is included as part of the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
).
The vale is a major east-west feature opening to the west towards the Bristol Channel
, but is drained by the headwaters of the Salisbury Avon
, rather than the westward-flowing Bristol Avon
. The river cuts through the chalk scarp to the south at Upavon
and crosses Salisbury Plain towards the south coast. The higher part of the eastern vale south of Burbage is drained by the River Bourne
, which cuts the scarp at Collingbourne Kingston
, joining the Avon at Salisbury
. Since the area is not believed to have been glaciated, this probably indicates that the course of the rivers pre-dates the modern topography.
The highest point is Milk Hill
(near Alton Barnes) at 295m / 968 ft above sea level, with the adjacent Tan Hill summiting at 294m / 965 ft.
The vale is not used by any major roads, but is followed by a railway and canal as a route between the London Basin
and the west. To the north of Burbage the head of the Avon valley, draining west into the vale, meets the head of the River Dun, draining east to the Kennet
and the Thames
. The valley floor at around 150 metres (492.1 ft) above sea level provides a route through the downs which locally reach 200 to 300 metres. The Kennet and Avon Canal
and the main line railway
from London to the south-west make use of this route, the canal using the Bruce Tunnel
. Formerly another rail route between Andover
and Marlborough also followed this gap. Another line formerly branched off towards Bath via Devizes at the western end of the vale.
, a westward extension of the Mendip
Axis, with a relatively thin covering of Mesozoic
sediments folded upwards over an up-faulted horst of Palaeozoic rocks. The floor of the vale is floored by Albian
(Lower Cretaceous) beds of the Upper Greensand, exposed by removal of the overlying chalk. It is surrounded to the north and south by chalk
scarps which close to the east near Burbage. There is also a small inlier of Greensand to the east at Shalbourne
; this area drains northwards to the Kennet.
of Roman coins
which became known as the Stanchester Hoard
. The find is now kept at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum
in Devizes
.
is the centre of activity for many of the smaller villages in and around the Vale of Pewsey and, as such, offers a wide range of activities for its small size.
Pewsey Clubs
, Marlborough, Tidworth
, Hungerford
, Salisbury
, Swindon
Villages: Avebury, Burbage
, Wolfhall, Oare
, Easton Royal
, Milton Lilbourne
, Wootton Rivers
, Collingbourne Ducis
, Collingbourne Kingston
, Upavon
, Everleigh
, Alton Barnes, Alton Priors, Bottlesford
, Wilsford
, North Newnton
, Rushall
, Manningford Bohune, Manningford Bruce, Woodborough, Charlton St. Peter, Wilton
, East Grafton, Cadley
, Huish
, Stanton St Bernard
, Patney
, Beechingstoke
, Marden
, Marten, Enford
, Netheravon
, Fittleton
, Wilcot
, Chirton
, Wexcombe.
Places of interest: Avebury
(stone circle), Kennet Long-Barrow, Savernake Forest
, Crofton Pumping Station
, Silbury Hill
, Wilton Windmill
, Stonehenge
, Stourhead
, Longleat
, Alton Barnes (crop circles), Stonehenge
(stone circle), Marlborough, Kennet and Avon Canal
, Bruce Tunnel
.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
to the east of Devizes
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...
and south of Marlborough, centred on the town of Pewsey
Pewsey
Pewsey is a large village, often considered a small town, at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire about west of London. It is well connected to London, the West Country and Wales being close to the M4 motorway and the A303. Also, the village is served by Pewsey railway station on the...
.
Geography
The vale is an extent of lower lying ground separating the chalk downs of Salisbury PlainSalisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in central southern England covering . It is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, with a little in Hampshire. The plain is famous for its rich archaeology, including Stonehenge, one of England's best known...
to the south from the Marlborough Downs to the north. It is around 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) long and around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) wide. At the western end is the town of Devizes. Larger settlements in the vale include Pewsey
Pewsey
Pewsey is a large village, often considered a small town, at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire about west of London. It is well connected to London, the West Country and Wales being close to the M4 motorway and the A303. Also, the village is served by Pewsey railway station on the...
and Burbage
Burbage, Wiltshire
Burbage is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. It is about south of Marlborough and west of Newbury.-Local government:...
with many smaller villages, the larger ones including Bishops Cannings
Bishops Cannings
Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the settlements of Coate, Horton, Bourton and Easton, as well as the village of Bishops Cannings itself.-History:...
, Etchilhampton
Etchilhampton
Etchilhampton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 152.-Local government:Etchilhampton is a civil parish with an elected parish council...
, Urchfont
Urchfont
Urchfont is a small, rural village to the north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about seven miles from the market town of Devizes. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Wedhampton and Lydeway...
, Chirton
Chirton
Chirton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 393.-Local government:Chirton is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council and is represented at that level by Brigadier Robert Hall...
, Alton Priors, Woodborough, Milton Lilbourne
Milton Lilbourne
Milton Lilbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire and lies in Pewsey Vale between Pewsey and Burbage.Milton Lilbourne's population was listed on the Kennet District Council website as 512 in 2006. These days the village is largely a mixed residential area centred...
, Easton Royal
Easton Royal
Easton Royal is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 283.-Local government:Easton Royal is a civil parish with an elected parish council...
and Wootton Rivers
Wootton Rivers
Wootton Rivers is a small village located between Pewsey and Marlborough in Wiltshire.-The village:The village and its church are built on what was originally the site of a Saxon manor house. At the start of the 14th century it came into the hands of the de la Riviere family, after whom it is now...
.
Although not itself part of the downs
Downland
A downland is an area of open chalk hills. This term is especially used to describe the chalk countryside in southern England. Areas of downland are often referred to as Downs....
, the vale is included as part of the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is an area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, that has been specially designated by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the United Kingdom government; the Countryside Council for Wales on...
).
The vale is a major east-west feature opening to the west towards the Bristol Channel
Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England. It extends from the lower estuary of the River Severn to the North Atlantic Ocean...
, but is drained by the headwaters of the Salisbury Avon
River Avon, Hampshire
The River Avon is a river in the south of England. The river rises in the county of Wiltshire and flows through the city of Salisbury and the county of Hampshire before reaching the English Channel through Christchurch Harbour in the county of Dorset....
, rather than the westward-flowing Bristol Avon
River Avon, Bristol
The River Avon is an English river in the south west of the country. To distinguish it from a number of other River Avons in Britain, this river is often also known as the Lower Avon or Bristol Avon...
. The river cuts through the chalk scarp to the south at Upavon
Upavon
Upavon is a rural village in the English County of Wiltshire, England. As its name suggests, it is on the upper portions of the River Avon which runs from the north to the south through the village. It is situated about south of Pewsey, about southeast of the market town of Devizes, and about ...
and crosses Salisbury Plain towards the south coast. The higher part of the eastern vale south of Burbage is drained by the River Bourne
River Bourne, Wiltshire
The River Bourne is a river in the English county of Wiltshire, and a tributary of the River Avon.The Bourne's source is at the eastern end of the Vale of Pewsey, near the village of Burbage. The river cuts through the chalk escarpment at Collingbourne Kingston, to flow south across Salisbury Plain...
, which cuts the scarp at Collingbourne Kingston
Collingbourne Kingston
Collingbourne Kingston is a village and civil parish about south of the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer....
, joining the Avon at Salisbury
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...
. Since the area is not believed to have been glaciated, this probably indicates that the course of the rivers pre-dates the modern topography.
The highest point is Milk Hill
Milk Hill
Milk Hill, located near Alton Priors east of Devizes, is the highest point in the county of Wiltshire, southwest England, at some 295 m / 968 ft above sea level...
(near Alton Barnes) at 295m / 968 ft above sea level, with the adjacent Tan Hill summiting at 294m / 965 ft.
The vale is not used by any major roads, but is followed by a railway and canal as a route between the London Basin
London Basin
The London Basin is an elongated, roughly triangular sedimentary basin approximately long which underlies London and a large area of south east England, south eastern East Anglia and the adjacent North Sea...
and the west. To the north of Burbage the head of the Avon valley, draining west into the vale, meets the head of the River Dun, draining east to the Kennet
River Kennet
The Kennet is a river in the south of England, and a tributary of the River Thames. The lower reaches of the river are navigable to river craft and are known as the Kennet Navigation, which, together with the Avon Navigation, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Thames, links the cities of Bristol...
and the Thames
River Thames
The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...
. The valley floor at around 150 metres (492.1 ft) above sea level provides a route through the downs which locally reach 200 to 300 metres. The Kennet and Avon Canal
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of , made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section...
and the main line railway
Reading to Taunton line
The Reading to Taunton line also known as the Berks and Hants is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line that diverges at Reading, running to Cogload Junction near Taunton, where it joins the Bristol to Exeter line....
from London to the south-west make use of this route, the canal using the Bruce Tunnel
Bruce Tunnel
The Bruce Tunnel is on the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal between Wootton Top Lock and Crofton Locks in Wiltshire, England.This is the only tunnel on the canal and it is 502 yards long...
. Formerly another rail route between Andover
Andover, Hampshire
Andover is a town in the English county of Hampshire. The town is on the River Anton some 18.5 miles west of the town of Basingstoke, 18.5 miles north-west of the city of Winchester and 25 miles north of the city of Southampton...
and Marlborough also followed this gap. Another line formerly branched off towards Bath via Devizes at the western end of the vale.
Geology
The vale lies along the eroded core of an anticlineAnticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a fold that is convex up and has its oldest beds at its core. The term is not to be confused with antiform, which is a purely descriptive term for any fold that is convex up. Therefore if age relationships In structural geology, an anticline is a fold that is...
, a westward extension of the Mendip
Mendip
Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 110,000...
Axis, with a relatively thin covering of Mesozoic
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...
sediments folded upwards over an up-faulted horst of Palaeozoic rocks. The floor of the vale is floored by Albian
Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma...
(Lower Cretaceous) beds of the Upper Greensand, exposed by removal of the overlying chalk. It is surrounded to the north and south by chalk
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
scarps which close to the east near Burbage. There is also a small inlier of Greensand to the east at Shalbourne
Shalbourne
Shalbourne is a civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. Besides a village of the same name, the parish includes a number of widely spaced small settlements, including Bagshot and Stype, to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood to the south...
; this area drains northwards to the Kennet.
Archaeology
In 2000, near the village of Wilcot, a schoolboy found a hoardHoard
In archaeology, a hoard is a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground. This would usually be with the intention of later recovery by the hoarder; hoarders sometimes died before retrieving the hoard, and these surviving hoards may be uncovered by...
of Roman coins
Roman currency
The Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus , the denarius , the sestertius , the dupondius , and the as...
which became known as the Stanchester Hoard
Stanchester Hoard
The Stanchester Hoard is a hoard of 1,166 Roman coins dating from the fourth to early fifth century found at Wilcot, in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England in 2000. The find was considered important because of the large quantity of unclipped silver coins contained within...
. The find is now kept at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Wiltshire Heritage Museum
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum, formerly known as Devizes Museum, is a museum, archive and library and art gallery in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The museum was established and is still run by, the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society , a registered charity founded in 1853. After...
in Devizes
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...
.
Amenities
PACT - Pewsey Area Community Trust - a group of local people and organisations supported by the County and Parish Councils who are interested in improving the economic, social and environmental well-being of the Pewsey area. Not just Pewsey itself, but surrounding villages too. The group has its own constitution and can apply for funding from various bodies to carry out projects which will achieve the group's goals or to deliver the objectives stated in the Pewsey Community Area Plan.Notable residents, past and present
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Culture and sport
PewseyPewsey
Pewsey is a large village, often considered a small town, at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire about west of London. It is well connected to London, the West Country and Wales being close to the M4 motorway and the A303. Also, the village is served by Pewsey railway station on the...
is the centre of activity for many of the smaller villages in and around the Vale of Pewsey and, as such, offers a wide range of activities for its small size.
- Ballooning Cameron Flights Southern Ltd
- Cadley Clay Shooting Grounds
- Climbing (Tidworth Leisure Centre, also Links Centre, Swindon)
- Gliding (Upavon)
- Kennet Badminton Club
- Karate
- Kung Fu
- Manningford Trout Fishery
- http://www.information-britain.co.uk/sportdetail.cfm?id=2164 Marlborough and Pewsey Judo Club at Pewsey Swimming and Sports Centre, Wilcot Road, Pewsey
- Marlborough & District Angling Association
- Milton (Lilbourne) Art Group
- Paragliding and Hang Gliding (Alton Barnes)
- Pewsey Area Community Trust (PACT)
- Pewsey Cricket Club
- Pewsey and District Angling Association
- Pewsey and Tidworth Killer Whales (a.k.a. Pewsey and Tidworth Amateur Swimming Club)
- Pewsey Swimming Club
- Pewsey Tae Kwon-Do Martial Arts /Self Defence Club at Pewsey Swimming and Sports Centre, Wilcot Road, Pewsey
- Pewsey Tennis Club
- Pewsey Vale Amateur Dramatic Society
- Pewsey Vale Bowls Club
- Pewsey Vale Decorative & Fine Art Society
- Pewsey Vale Football Club
- Pewsey Vale Gardening Society
- Pewsey Vale History Society
- Pewsey Vale Railway Society
- Pewsey Vale Riding Centre
- Pewsey Vale Rugby Football Club
- Pewsey Vale Running Club
- Pewsey Vale Youth Football Club
- Pewsey Wharf Boat Club
- Shelley Rudman Supporters Group
- Skateboarding
- Stonehenge & Pewsey Canoe Club
- Tedworth Hunt
- U3A
- Upavon Golf Club
- Urchfont Clay Pigeon Club
- Wiltshire Ramblers: Mid-Wiltshire Ramblers/NE Wiltshire Ramblers
- Women's Institute (W.I.)
Pewsey Clubs
Nearby places
Towns and cities: DevizesDevizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...
, Marlborough, Tidworth
Tidworth
Tidworth is a town in south-east Wiltshire, England with a growing civilian population. Situated at the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain, it is approximately 10 miles west of Andover, 12 miles south of Marlborough, 24 miles south of Swindon, 15 miles north by north-east of Salisbury and 6 miles east...
, Hungerford
Hungerford
Hungerford is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 9 miles west of Newbury. It covers an area of and, according to the 2001 census, has a population of 5,559 .- Geography :...
, Salisbury
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...
, Swindon
Swindon
Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...
Villages: Avebury, Burbage
Burbage, Wiltshire
Burbage is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. It is about south of Marlborough and west of Newbury.-Local government:...
, Wolfhall, Oare
Oare, Wiltshire
Oare is a small village near Marlborough and Pewsey in the County of Wiltshire, England.The A345 road runs through the village.-Geography:The village is within the parish of Huish with Oare and lies within the Devizes Parliamentary Constituency....
, Easton Royal
Easton Royal
Easton Royal is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 283.-Local government:Easton Royal is a civil parish with an elected parish council...
, Milton Lilbourne
Milton Lilbourne
Milton Lilbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire and lies in Pewsey Vale between Pewsey and Burbage.Milton Lilbourne's population was listed on the Kennet District Council website as 512 in 2006. These days the village is largely a mixed residential area centred...
, Wootton Rivers
Wootton Rivers
Wootton Rivers is a small village located between Pewsey and Marlborough in Wiltshire.-The village:The village and its church are built on what was originally the site of a Saxon manor house. At the start of the 14th century it came into the hands of the de la Riviere family, after whom it is now...
, Collingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 849....
, Collingbourne Kingston
Collingbourne Kingston
Collingbourne Kingston is a village and civil parish about south of the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer....
, Upavon
Upavon
Upavon is a rural village in the English County of Wiltshire, England. As its name suggests, it is on the upper portions of the River Avon which runs from the north to the south through the village. It is situated about south of Pewsey, about southeast of the market town of Devizes, and about ...
, Everleigh
Everleigh, Wiltshire
Everleigh, pronounced and also sometimes spelt Everley, is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 230...
, Alton Barnes, Alton Priors, Bottlesford
Bottlesford
Bottlesford is a village in Wiltshire, England....
, Wilsford
Wilsford, Wiltshire
Wilsford is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in the English county of Wiltshire-Local government:Wilsford is grouped with nearby Charlton, Kennet, the two together have an elected parish council...
, North Newnton
North Newnton
North Newnton is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Avon. The parish includes the settlements of Hilcott and Rainscombe.-History:The parish was described as follows in The National Gazetteer :-Governance:...
, Rushall
Rushall, Wiltshire
Rushall is a village in Wiltshire, England, located on the River Avon about five miles southwest of the town of Pewsey and to the west of Upavon.The village has the Church of England parish church of Saint Matthew and Rushall Church of England Primary School...
, Manningford Bohune, Manningford Bruce, Woodborough, Charlton St. Peter, Wilton
Wilton, Wiltshire
Wilton is a town in Wiltshire, , England, with a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons. Today it is dwarfed by its larger and more famous neighbour, Salisbury, but still has a range of notable shops and attractions, including Wilton House.The confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder is at...
, East Grafton, Cadley
Cadley, Wiltshire
Cadley, Wiltshire can refer to:* Cadley , a village at 51.28N 01.65W SU2454* Cadley , a hamlet at 51.39N 01.71W SU2066...
, Huish
Huish, Wiltshire
Huish is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.- Location :Huish is situated on the south-facing edge of the Marlborough Downs, where the downs adjoin the Vale of Pewsey.Position:...
, Stanton St Bernard
Stanton St Bernard
Stanton St Bernard is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Devizes, about away to the west.All significant local government services are provided by Wiltshire Council, with its headquarters in Trowbridge, and the parish is represented there by Brigadier Robert Hall...
, Patney
Patney
Patney is a village in Wiltshire, England, located around 7 km south-east of Devizes. The A342 road runs just to the south of it.All significant local government services are provided by Wiltshire Council, with its headquarters in Trowbridge, and the parish is represented there by Brigadier...
, Beechingstoke
Beechingstoke
Beechingstoke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Pewsey.-Local government:Beechingstoke is a civil parish with an elected parish council...
, Marden
Marden, Wiltshire
Marden is a small village in the County of Wiltshire, in the south west of England.-Location:The village lies on the River Avon some six miles to the south-east of the town of Devizes, near the edge of Salisbury Plain...
, Marten, Enford
Enford
Enford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes nine small settlements along the banks of the headwaters of the River Avon...
, Netheravon
Netheravon
Netheravon is a village and civil parish on the River Avon, about north of the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire.-Notable people:The writer Frank Sawyer , although born in Bulford, spent most of his life in Netheravon as river keeper River Avon and died on the banks of the river near the parish church...
, Fittleton
Fittleton
Fittleton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The parish also contains the adjacent settlement of Haxton.-Location:...
, Wilcot
Wilcot
Wilcot is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, two miles north-west of Pewsey.-History:The parish was described as follows in The National Gazetteer :...
, Chirton
Chirton
Chirton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 393.-Local government:Chirton is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council and is represented at that level by Brigadier Robert Hall...
, Wexcombe.
Places of interest: Avebury
Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles which is located around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, south west England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain...
(stone circle), Kennet Long-Barrow, Savernake Forest
Savernake Forest
Savernake Forest is on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Its area is approximately .It is privately owned by the Trustees of Savernake Estate, the Earl of Cardigan, and his family solicitor. Since 1939 the running of the forest has been...
, Crofton Pumping Station
Crofton Pumping Station
Crofton Pumping Station is a pumping station near the village of Great Bedwyn in the English county of Wiltshire: it supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water....
, Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site, and lies at ....
, Wilton Windmill
Wilton Windmill
The Wilton Windmill is a five floor brick tower mill located on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire.-History:...
, Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...
, Stourhead
Stourhead
Stourhead is a 2,650 acre estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland...
, Longleat
Longleat
Longleat is an English stately home, currently the seat of the Marquesses of Bath, adjacent to the village of Horningsham and near the towns of Warminster in Wiltshire and Frome in Somerset. It is noted for its Elizabethan country house, maze, landscaped parkland and safari park. The house is set...
, Alton Barnes (crop circles), Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...
(stone circle), Marlborough, Kennet and Avon Canal
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of , made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section...
, Bruce Tunnel
Bruce Tunnel
The Bruce Tunnel is on the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal between Wootton Top Lock and Crofton Locks in Wiltshire, England.This is the only tunnel on the canal and it is 502 yards long...
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