Beechingstoke
Beechingstoke is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Beechingstoke including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
There are a several good historic monuments in the Beechingstoke area like Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
The area around Beechingstoke boasts some of the best ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Historic Buildings to visit near Beechingstoke include Avebury Manor.
There are a several good country parks in the area around Beechingstoke like Coate Water Country Park.
There are a number of lakes near to Beechingstoke including Coate Water.
Beechingstoke is near some unmissable villages like Ashton Keynes,
Beechingstoke History
There are some historic monuments around Beechingstoke:
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Round barrow south-west of Compton Farm
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down
- Round barrow north of Summer Down
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Square earthwork enclosure 450m north west of Baltic Farm on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow north of splinterproof shelter, Larkhill Artillery Range
- Langdean stone circle
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Thornham Down prehistoric and medieval landscapes
- Enclosure on Black Heath Down
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Saucer barrow 910m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow situated 500m SSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Linear boundary earthwork and associated field system on Cherhill Down
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Enclosure north of Chirton Gorse
- Enclosure and boundary earthwork west of Scraggy Copse
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Long barrow 650m WSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 120m north of the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Bell barrow on Easton Down
- Bowl barrow 500m west of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill; part of a group of three bowl barrows
- Cross dyke 230m south west of Cherhill Monument
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Bowl barrow 550m north-east of Baltic Farm
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- Enclosure on Marden Down
- Bowl barrow on Calstone Down, 500m south of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Orcheston Down Romano-British landscape
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 930m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Round barrow 1260m NNE of Baltic Farm, 75m south of Roman Road, forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Eleven round barrows 1000m north of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery, and a probable enclosed Iron Age farmstead on North Down
- Cross dyke 520m north east of Cherhill Monument
- Bowl barrow 150m east of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Boundary feature, western section of Long Ditch across Wilsford Down
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Multiple trackway between and north of Round Clump and Dogtail Plantation
- Pair of bowl barrows situated on the south east of Bishop's Cannings Down
- Linear earthworks forming part of a field system on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Roundway Hill Farm round barrows
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Barrow east of Chirton Landing Strip
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Swanborough Tump
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Four bowl barrows forming part of a cemetery 270m east of long barrow on Roughridge Hill
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Pair of bell barrows and a pair of bowl barrows forming part of a barrow cemetery at Baltic Farm
- Boundary earthwork from East Down to Orcheston Down
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Field system on Penning Down
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Rybury camp
- Two boundary earthworks on the west of Rushall Down
- Medieval village site
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Saucer barrow on North Down
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Boundary earthwork east of Church Hill
- Square enclosure 350m north of Wansdyke on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Enclosure south-east of Candown Copse
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 1070m NNW of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Long barrow in Barrow Plantation, East Down
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Boundary feature on Ball Down
- Ell Barrow, long barrow
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Furze Knoll
- Bowl barrow 840m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery adjacent to the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Barrow north-west of Weatherhill Scrub
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Enclosure on Summer Down
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 135m ENE of Baltic Farm
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow at east end of Morgan's Hill
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Bowl barrow 840m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Five round barrows 1040m NNE of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Green Street and 1100m east of the Avebury henge monument, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Boundary earthworks on Wilsford Down
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Cross dyke 450m west of Cherhill Monument
- Enford Roman villa
- Group of three bowl barrows 250m north east of Shepherds' Shore
- Cross ridge dyke on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Three round barrows west of Netheravon Aerodrome
- Bowl barrow 1150m north-east of Baltic Farm
- The Long Monument
- Long barrow 85m west of Cherhill Monument
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 350m north-east of White Horse Plantation
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Round barrow near Charlton Clumps
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
