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.
Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury are some of Pewsey best historic monuments to visit near Pewsey.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill are great places to visit near Pewsey if you like ancient sites.
Historic Buildings to visit near Pewsey include Avebury Manor.
The area close to Pewsey boasts some of the best country parks including Coate Water Country Park.
The area close to Pewsey boasts some of the best lakes including Coate Water.
The area around Pewsey's best villages can be found at Ashton Keynes.
Pewsey History
There are some historic monuments around Pewsey:
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Old Hat Barrow, bowl barrow
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Section of boundary earthwork east of Sidbury Hill
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Two bowl barrows 350m south east of Baden Down Farm
- Crowdown Clump earthwork (Godsbury)
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Five bowl barrows 600m north-east of Brimslade Farm Cottages: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 40m north west 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
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- Easton Clump settlement
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Bohune Down round barrow
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Linear earthwork 500yds (460m) S of Sidbury camp
- 'The Spectacles'
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Lidbury Camp, associated trackways and bowl barrow, on Littlecott Down
- Chisenbury Warren Romano-British settlement and associated trackway
- Bell barrow on Haxton Down
- Snail Down barrow cemetery and associated monuments.
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- Castle mound
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Field system north-east of Chisenbury Field Barn
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Cadley Vicarage
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- Round barrow south-west of Compton Farm
- Black Field Roman site
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Two bowl barrows 400m east of Cadley Vicarage
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- East Croft Coppice earthwork
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Enford Roman villa
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Round barrow cemetery 320m south east of Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Trackway, ditch and bell barrow on Longstreet Down
- Henge Monument/enclosure, on Everleigh Down, north of Weather Hill Firs
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow north of splinterproof shelter, Larkhill Artillery Range
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Romano-British kilns, Column Ride, Savernake Forest
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Field system south of East Everleigh
- Bowl barrow on Longstreet Down
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Linear earthwork NW of Sidbury camp
- A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down
- Bowl barrow 275m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow five hundred metres north-west of Baden Down Farm
- Enclosure on Everleigh Down, south-west of Snail Clump
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Disc barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Disc barrow at Easton Clump
- Two of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Swanborough Tump
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Enclosure west of Hound Plantation
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Langdean stone circle
- Defended settlement on Aughton Down, 450m north of Croft Barn
- Bowl barrow 650m east of Summer Down Farm
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- The Weather Hill multiperiod landscape and associated linear earthworks
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Enclosed settlement 450m north of Bake Barn
- Romano-British settlement and associated earthworks on Coombe Down, 760m east of Bake Barn
- Sidbury Hill and associated monuments
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Withy Copse ditch
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Bowl barrow 450m south-west of Savernake Lodge
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Enclosure, probably unfinished, west of Sun Plantation
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Section of boundary earthwork north-west of Sidbury Hill
- Bowl barrow south-east of Sidbury Hill
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Figheldean Down prehistoric landscape
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow, Round Down Copse
- Bowl barrow north of Jenner's Firs
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Summer Down Farm
- Linear earthwork in Savernake Forest, S of Great Lodge Bottom
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Enclosure east of Baden Down Farm
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton 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
- Round barrow on Easton 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-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Two round barrows west of Hougoumont Farm
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Everleigh Barrows
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
