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