Pewsey
Pewsey is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Pewsey including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
There are a several good historic monuments in the Pewsey area like Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Pewsey's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Places near Pewsey feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
Don't miss Coate Water Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Pewsey.
Coate Water is a great place to visit close to Pewsey if you like lakes.
The area around Pewsey's best villages can be found at Ashton Keynes.
Pewsey History
There are some historic monuments around Pewsey:
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Two bowl barrows 350m south east of Baden Down Farm
- Langdean stone circle
- Chisenbury Warren Romano-British settlement and associated trackway
- Easton Clump settlement
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Summer Down Farm
- Black Field Roman site
- Trackway, ditch and bell barrow on Longstreet Down
- Bowl barrow 450m south-west of Savernake Lodge
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Linear earthwork NW of Sidbury camp
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Swanborough Tump
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- 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
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Enclosure, probably unfinished, west of Sun Plantation
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Two of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Five bowl barrows 600m north-east of Brimslade Farm Cottages: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Linear earthwork 500yds (460m) S of Sidbury camp
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 650m east of Summer Down Farm
- Section of boundary earthwork east of Sidbury Hill
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Old Hat Barrow, bowl barrow
- Field system south of East Everleigh
- Enford Roman villa
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Henge Monument/enclosure, on Everleigh Down, north of Weather Hill Firs
- Bowl barrow, Round Down Copse
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Withy Copse ditch
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- 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 in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Snail Down barrow cemetery and associated monuments.
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Sidbury Hill and associated monuments
- Round barrow south-west of Compton Farm
- Bowl barrow south-east of Sidbury Hill
- Castle mound
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Lidbury Camp, associated trackways and bowl barrow, on Littlecott Down
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- Disc barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Two bowl barrows 400m east of Cadley Vicarage
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Round barrow cemetery 320m south east of Down Farm
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Romano-British kilns, Column Ride, Savernake Forest
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Romano-British settlement and associated earthworks on Coombe Down, 760m east of Bake Barn
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Two round barrows west of Hougoumont Farm
- Bowl barrow on Longstreet Down
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Enclosure east of Baden Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 275m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Enclosure on Everleigh Down, south-west of Snail Clump
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- The Weather Hill multiperiod landscape and associated linear earthworks
- Bowl barrow north of splinterproof shelter, Larkhill Artillery Range
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Round barrow on Easton Down
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Disc barrow at Easton Clump
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Figheldean Down prehistoric landscape
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Everleigh Barrows
- Linear earthwork in Savernake Forest, S of Great Lodge Bottom
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Defended settlement on Aughton Down, 450m north of Croft Barn
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Enclosure west of Hound Plantation
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Cadley Vicarage
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bowl barrow five hundred metres north-west of Baden Down Farm
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Bohune Down round barrow
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Section of boundary earthwork north-west of Sidbury Hill
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Enclosed settlement 450m north of Bake Barn
- Field system north-east of Chisenbury Field Barn
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Bowl barrow north of Jenner's Firs
- Crowdown Clump earthwork (Godsbury)
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down
- 'The Spectacles'
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Bell barrow on Haxton Down
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- East Croft Coppice earthwork
