Fovant is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.

Retail in Fovant

There are great places to visit near Fovant including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes, parks and villages.

Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury are some of Fovant best historic monuments to visit near Fovant.

Ancient Sites to visit near Fovant include Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle.

Historic Buildings to visit near Fovant include Avebury Manor.

Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park are great places to visit near Fovant if you like country parks.

Coate Water is a great place to visit close to Fovant if you like lakes.

The area around Fovant's best parks can be found at Lydiard Park.

Villages to visit near Fovant include Ashton Keynes.

Fovant History

There are some historic monuments around Fovant:

• Marleycombe Hill earthworks
• Bowl barrow 120m north east of the junction of Grim's Ditch and Bokerley Dyke on Blagdon Hill
• Barrow 230yds (210m) W of Sutton Ivers, on Sutton Down
• Bowl barrow 350m west of Mount Pleasant
• Long barrow 300m north-east of Albany Place
• Long barrow 700m west of Bride's Farm
• Long barrow in Barrow Clump, Stockton Down
• Chiselbury Camp hillfort, cross dykes and site of turnpike toll house
• Queen's barrow: a bowl barrow in Queen's Barrow Plantation
• Earthworks S of Knighton Hill Buildings
• Stapleford Castle
• Punch Bowl round barrow
• Bowl barrow 270m north of Grim's Ditch, near Tidpit Common
• Group of barrows near Field Barn
• Roman road along the south side of Vernditch Chase: part of the Roman road between Sorviodunum (Old Sarum) and Vindocladia (Badbury)
• Wick Farm settlement site
• Whitesheet Hill milestone
• Woodland Down ditch
• Bowl barrow 350m east of the shoulder angle of Bokerley Dyke on Martin Down
• Knighton Hill earthwork
• A complex of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement on Berwick Down centred 700m south east of Ashcombe Farm
• A linear earthwork and two bowl barrows east of Bokerley Dyke on Blagdon Hill
• Earthwork 360yds (328m) NW of Warren Copse
• Two bowl barrows on South Down 660m north west of Chase Barn
• Ditch, 343yds (310m) ENE of East Farm Cottages to 800yds (730m) NW of St Martin's Chapel
• Hoop Side round barrows
• Bowl barrow 240m east of The Penning
• Long barrow south-west of Vernditch Chase
• Buxbury round barrow, Buxbury Hill
• Bowl barrow 1020m north west of White Farm
• Two sections of a linear earthwork north of West Woodyates Manor: part of the `Bokerley Line'
• Woodminton Down round barrow
• Old Wardour Castle: a tower keep castle, 17th century stables and later garden features
• Great Ditch banks
• The eastern of two linear earthworks north of West Woodyates Manor
• Three bowl barrows on Trow Down 520m north west and 545m west of Bigley Buildings
• Berwick Coombe round barrow
• Barrow W of village
• Little Langford round barrow, N of Upper Farm Down
• Church Bottom earthwork enclosure
• Bowl barrow 290m north east of the junction of Bokerley Dyke and a linear earthwork on Martin Down
• Chalk map of Australia 925m south west of Upper Hurdcott Farm
• Garden earthworks south of West Woodyates Manor
• Castle Ditches camp
• Wick Ball camp, the Common
• Bowl barrow 300m east of Boyton Field Barn
• Barrow N of 'The Spectacles'
• Winkelbury camp
• Bronze Age and Romano-British enclosure on Martin Down, east of Bokerley Junction
• Middle Chase buildings round barrow
• The western of two linear earthworks north of West Woodyates Manor
• Barrow on Fifield Down 700yds (640m) ESE of North Barn
• Bowl barrow 520m north east of the shoulder angle of Bokerley Dyke on Martin Down
• Bowl barrow 300m north of White Farm
• Knowle Hill round barrow
• Chalk military badges on Fovant Down
• Bowl barrow west of Rotherley Wood, 750m WNW of Park Cottage
• Berwick Coombe ditch
• Cross-ridge dyke on Buxbury Hill
• Winkelbury Hill round barrows
• The Bake and Wylye Down milestones
• Two bowl barrows 200m north of Grim's Ditch, near Tidpit Common
• Guest house of the Knights of St John
• Hut Bottom round barrow
• East Castle
• Bowl barrow in Bridmore Belt, 940m north east of Ashcombe Farm
• Camp in Mistlebury Wood
• Scrubbity Barrows: a round barrow cemetery in Scrubbity Coppice
• Marleycombe Hill round barrows
• Roman road north east of Vernditch Chase: part of the Roman road between Sorviodunum (Old Sarum) and Vindocladia (Badbury)
• Field system on Wylye Down
• Gallows Hill round barrow
• Long barrow 170m south west of triangulation pillar on White Sheet Hill
• Long barrows and group of round barrows on Bokerly Down
• Bowl barrow 400m west of Mount Pleasant
• Bowl barrow 400m west of Vicarage Barn
• Three associated linear earthworks on Martin Down
• Two linear earthworks in Vernditch Chase
• Three adjoining linear earthworks and three bowl barrows north of Bokerley Dyke on Martin Down
• Knighton Hill round barrow
• Round barrow 230yds (210m) NW of New Field Plantation
• Middle Chase Farm ditch
• Bowl barrow on Berwick Drove, 620m north east of Ashcombe Farm
• Round barrow on Swallowcliffe Down
• Bilbury Rings
• Swallowcliffe Down settlement
• Winkelbury Hill earthworks
• Woodhouse Hanging round barrows
• Two chalk military badges 380m and 550m west of Sheep Well
• Grim's Ditch: Old Lodge Copse to Toyd Clump
• Romano-British village N of Stockton Wood
• Village cross
• A cross-ridge dyke on South Down 500m north east of Chase Barn
• Tithe barn and gatehouse at Place Farm
• Long barrow 250m east of Boyton Field Barn
• Bowl barrow in Barrow Coppice, 660m north of Wayside Cottage
• Vernditch Chase long barrow
• Hamshill ditches and field system
• Sherrington Castle mound: motte castle east of Sherrington Manor
• Two linear earthworks, two barrows and Iron Age and Romano-British settlements on Tidpit Common Down
• Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Rotherley Down
• Grovely Castle and earthworks N of Grovely Wood
• Hanging Langford camp and Church-end Ring
• Faulston pigeon house
• Round barrow 860yds (786m) SE of Knighton Hill Buildings
• The Carrion Tree Rack:a linear boundary in Rushmore Park, south west, south and north east of Park Cottage
• Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Woodcutts Common, 850m south east and 845m SSE of Arundell Cottages
• Bury Orchard ditch
• Bowl barrow 540m north of Woodbine Barn
• Roman site in Upper Holt, Teffont Magna
• Bowl barrow 330m north of Grim's Ditch, near Tidpit Common
• Two barrows W of Stoke Down
• Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down
• Bokerley Dyke, and a section of Grim's Ditch, a section of a medieval boundary bank, and two bowl barrows on and north west of Martin Down
• Bowl barrow 210m north east of the junction of Grim's Ditch and Bokerley Dyke on Blagdon Hill
• A linear earthwork north east of West Woodyates Manor: part of the `Bokerley Line'
• Field system on Stoke Down
• Hydon Hill round barrows
• Knighton Roman road (stretching from Reddish Gore to reservoir)
• Two bowl barrows on Stoke Down 650m south west of Foxhole Cottage
• Wermere pond