Overtown
Overtown is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
Overtown postcode: SN4 0SH
There are great places to visit near Overtown including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes, parks and villages.
Overtown's best nearby historic monuments can be found at Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Overtown has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle.
The area around Overtown's best historic buildings can be found at Avebury Manor.
Overtown's best nearby country parks can be found at Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park.
Don't miss Coate Water's lakes if visiting the area around Overtown.
Overtown is near some unmissable parks like Lydiard Park,
Ashton Keynes is a great place to visit close to Overtown if you like villages.
Overtown History
There are some historic monuments around Overtown:
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- 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 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Liddington Castle
- Banjo enclosure 480m south west of Cheldene
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane
- Whitefield Hill ditch
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
- Bincknoll Camp
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Stone circle
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- 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 Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- 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 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Mound in churchyard
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Remains of Holy Rood Church, The Lawn, Old Town
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Castle mound
- Preshute Down field system
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Sharpridge field system
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Church Hill earthwork
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Black Field Roman site
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Hall Place
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Medieval settlement remains at Overtown
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Cross in the churchyard of St John the Baptist and St Helen
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Lower Upham Farm
- Bowl barrow 700m south west of Liddington Warren Farm
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow, West Leaze
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Site of watermill 290m south east of West Leaze
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
