Nunton is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.

Nunton postcode: SP5 4HP

Retail in Nunton

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

Nunton has some unmissable historic monuments nearby like Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.

The area around Nunton boasts some of the best ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.

Avebury Manor is a great place to visit close to Nunton if you like historic buildings.

Don't miss Coate Water Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Nunton.

Coate Water is one of Nunton's best, nearby lakes to visit in Nunton.

There are a number of villages near to Nunton including Ashton Keynes.

Nunton History

There are some historic monuments around Nunton:

• Giant's Grave: a long barrow 400m north-west of Down Farm
• Four bowl barrows west of Breamore Hat
• Whitsbury hillfort
• Grans barrow: a long barrow 880m west of Down Farm
• The Butts round barrow cemetery
• Woodbury ancient villages
• Frankenbury hillfort
• Bell barrow, three bowl barrows and gas testing trenches on Idmiston Down
• Roman pottery kilns at Island Thorns Enclosure
• Milford Hill Bridge
• Templeman's Farm round barrow
• Group of barrows W of Hooklands Plantation
• Long barrow 700m north-west of Tenantry Farm
• Earthwork W of Woodford Clump
• Gomeldon deserted village
• Ancient cultivation terraces
• The Moot: a ringwork and bailey, earlier Roman settlement remains and later garden earthworks immediately east of the River Avon
• Packhorse bridge
• Group of barrows on North Hill Down
• Two disc barrows and two bowl barrows 900m north of Moll Harris's Clump on Idmiston Down
• Long barrow 140m WSW of the Battery Hill triangulation point
• 'Ende Burgh' long barrow
• Bowl barrow 650m ESE of Manor Farm: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Newton Barrow
• Bowl barrow on Little Toyd Down, 650m south west of Grims Lodge Farm
• City rampart E of Council House
• Bell barrow, bowl barrow and section of hollow way 600m NNW of Long Orchard
• The Giant's Chair bell barrow
• Medieval manorial buildings (uninhabited parts)
• Medieval pottery kilns, Milford Farm
• Roman road between A30 main road and Winterslow Corner
• Clearbury Down round barrow
• St Michael's Priory
• Knoll Camp hillfort, cross dyke, linear earthwork and hollow ways near Damerham Knoll
• Clearbury Ring
• Bowl barrow 50m west of the Battery Hill triangulation point
• Wick Down round barrow
• The Poultry Cross
• Barrows forming part of a cemetery, 320m north west of The Pheasant Hotel
• Bowl barrow 535m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• The Giant's Grave long barrow
• A pond barrow and a bowl barrow 200m south east of St Mary's Church forming outliers to a round barrow cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner
• Bowl barrow 440m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Harnham Bridge
• Barrow in Wilton Park
• Long barrow on Little Toyd Down, 760m south west of Grims Lodge Farm
• Churchyard cross
• Horse Barrow
• Romano-British settlement at Stratford sub Castle
• Churchyard cross
• Long barrow in Round Clump
• Old Sarum
• Heale Hill round barrows and earthworks
• Bowl barrow on Homington Down, 725m south of Tottens Farm
• Village cross
• Enclosure NW of Downbarn West
• Duck's Nest: a long barrow on Rockbourne Down
• Bowl barrow 260m SSE of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Grim's Ditch
• Clarendon Palace
• Three bowl barrows 200m east of Manor Farm: part of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Fussell's long barrow
• Two bowl barrows 265m south of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: part of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Long barrow 600yds (550m) SE of Vanity
• Ruined church of SS Mary and Nicholas
• Bowl barrow 430m north west of Northdown Barn
• Roman earthwork
• Round barrow E of Downbarn West
• Bell barrow 250m NNE of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down
• Bowl barrow 370m east of Manor Farm: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Rockbourne Down, Spring Pond enclosure
• Long barrow, Winterbourne
• Bronze Age enclosure and two bowl barrows 520m north east of Moll Harris's Clump on Idmiston Down
• Bowl barrow 450m ENE of Manor Farm: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Rockbourne Roman villa
• Mizmaze on Breamore Down
• Bowl barrow 680m SSE of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Figsbury Ring
• Odstock Copse earthwork
• Studley Castle royal hunting lodge
• Bowl barrow 530m SSW of the southern corner of Moll Harris's Clump: one of a group of round barrows on Porton Down
• Bell barrow 300m ENE of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down