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