Manton
Manton is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
Manton postcode: SN8 4HH
There are great places to visit near Manton 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 Manton best historic monuments to visit near Manton.
The area around Manton boasts some of the best ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle.
The area close to Manton boasts some of the best historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
Country Parks to visit near Manton include Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park.
Manton is near some unmissable lakes like Coate Water,
The area close to Manton boasts some of the best parks including Lydiard Park.
Places near Manton feature a number of interesting villages including Ashton Keynes.
Manton History
There are some historic monuments around Manton:
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Round barrow on Easton Down
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Bowl barrow 400m north-west of Aldbourne Warren Farm
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Romano-British kilns, Column Ride, Savernake Forest
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- 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 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 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Langdean stone circle
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Medieval settlement, cultivation remains and boundary 550m north west of Upham Hall
- Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Dudmore Lodge
- Mound in churchyard
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Easton Clump settlement
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Martinsell Hill camp
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Linear earthwork in Savernake Forest, S of Great Lodge Bottom
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Church Hill earthwork
- Disc barrow at Easton Clump
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Preshute Down field system
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- Bowl barrow 700m south west of Liddington Warren Farm
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Moated site at Puthall Farm
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- East Croft Coppice earthwork
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Two bowl barrows in Shipley Bottom
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Black Field Roman site
- Crowdown Clump earthwork (Godsbury)
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Whitefield Hill ditch
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 150m north of Half Moon Wood
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Sharpridge field system
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Medieval settlement and prehistoric field system 520m north east and 760m east of Snap Farm
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Cadley Vicarage
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Bincknoll Camp
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 450m south-west of Savernake Lodge
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Banjo enclosure 480m south west of Cheldene
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Medieval settlement remains at Overtown
- Swanborough Tump
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Lower Upham Farm
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 275m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Castle mound
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Two bowl barrows 400m east of Cadley Vicarage
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Withy Copse ditch
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Five bowl barrows 600m north-east of Brimslade Farm Cottages: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
