Bishops Cannings
Bishops Cannings is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Bishops Cannings including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes, parks and villages.
Don't miss Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury's historic monuments if visiting the area around Bishops Cannings.
Bishops Cannings's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle.
Places near Bishops Cannings feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
The area around Bishops Cannings boasts some of the best country parks including Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park.
Places near Bishops Cannings feature a number of interesting lakes including Coate Water.
Lydiard Park is one of Bishops Cannings's best, nearby parks to visit in Bishops Cannings.
Bishops Cannings is near some unmissable villages like Ashton Keynes,
Bishops Cannings History
There are some historic monuments around Bishops Cannings:
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 120m north of the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Furze Knoll
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Medieval village cross 100m north east of St Martin's Church
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- Enclosure on Marden Down
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Barrow east of Chirton Landing Strip
- Two boundary earthworks on the west of Rushall Down
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow 930m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm
- Eleven round barrows 1000m north of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery, and a probable enclosed Iron Age farmstead on North Down
- Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow at east end of Morgan's Hill
- Square earthwork enclosure 450m north west of Baltic Farm on Morgan's Hill
- Devizes Castle
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 840m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Nuthills Roman villa
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Medieval cross 30m north east of St Martin's Church
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Two bowl barrows in Roundway Hill Covert
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Caen Hill locks
- Wansdyke: 460yds (420m) SE of Broads Green to 266yds (240m) NE of Paddock Farm
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Bowl barrow on Calstone Down, 500m south of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 60m east of Roundway Hill Covert
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Round barrow near Charlton Clumps
- Boundary feature, western section of Long Ditch across Wilsford Down
- Long barrow 85m west of Cherhill Monument
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Medieval rural settlement at Quemerford
- Square enclosure 350m north of Wansdyke on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Round barrow 1260m NNE of Baltic Farm, 75m south of Roman Road, forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow 190m north east of Nolands Farm, Yatesbury
- Saucer barrow 910m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Medieval village site
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Long barrow on King's Play Hill, 430m north west of Hill Cottage
- Bell barrow on Easton Down
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Linear boundary earthwork and associated field system on Cherhill Down
- Long barrow 650m WSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Bowl barrow situated 500m SSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Linear earthworks forming part of a field system on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Bowl barrow 1070m NNW of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Moated site 300m north-east of Potterne Park Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows situated on the south east of Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 500m west of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill; part of a group of three bowl barrows
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 135m ENE of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 550m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 150m east of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery adjacent to the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Enclosure and boundary earthwork west of Scraggy Copse
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Rybury camp
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Medieval settlement 520m north east of Lower Beversbrook Farm
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Enclosure north of Chirton Gorse
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill 510m north of Hill Cottage
- Cross dyke 450m west of Cherhill Monument
- Oliver's Camp and two round barrows outside Oliver's Camp
- Bowl barrow 1150m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Cross dyke 230m south west of Cherhill Monument
- Two bowl barrows north of Rowbury Lane
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Baltic Farm
- Roundway Hill Farm round barrows
- Saucer barrow on North Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Five round barrows 1040m NNE of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- The Long Monument
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- Field system on Penning Down
- Richardson medieval settlement
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Boundary earthworks on Wilsford Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Pair of bell barrows and a pair of bowl barrows forming part of a barrow cemetery at Baltic Farm
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Group of three bowl barrows 250m north east of Shepherds' Shore
- Bowl barrow 840m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Four bowl barrows forming part of a cemetery 270m east of long barrow on Roughridge Hill
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Barrow north-west of Weatherhill Scrub
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 350m north-east of White Horse Plantation
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Moated site and fishpond north-west of Pinhills Farm
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Cross dyke 520m north east of Cherhill Monument
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Remains of watermill 500m east of Freeth Farm
- Round barrow in Mount Wood, 300m north-east of Upper Lodge
- Cross ridge dyke on Morgan's Hill
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Multiple trackway between and north of Round Clump and Dogtail Plantation
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
