Warminster
Warminster is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Warminster including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury are some of Warminster best historic monuments to visit near Warminster.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill are some of Warminster best ancient sites to visit near Warminster.
The area around Warminster's best historic buildings can be found at Avebury Manor.
The area close to Warminster boasts some of the best country parks including Coate Water Country Park.
Warminster is near some unmissable lakes like Coate Water,
Ashton Keynes is a great place to visit close to Warminster if you like villages.
Warminster History
There are some historic monuments around Warminster:
- Round barrow on the south side of Cotley Hill
- Bowl barrow 140m west of Cleeve
- Bowl barrow 850m north west of Lower Pertwood Farm
- Strip lynchets south of Bigbury Wood
- Bowl barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill, 740m north east of Seagram's Barn
- Romano-Celtic temple and late prehistoric midden immediately south of Woodcombe Wood, 1.1km north east of Dairy Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- Edington Priory (site of)
- Medieval moated site 110m north west of Grange Farm
- Bowl barrow on Oxendean Down
- Long barrow on Pertwood Down, 1400m north-west of Lower Pertwood
- Bowl barrow north of White Horse Farm
- Bowl barrow south-west of Knapp Down
- The Devil's Bed and Bolster long barrow
- Bowl barrow to the north of Long Bottom, 1.6km north east of Hammersmith
- Bowl barrow 50m west of St Mary's Church
- Middle Hill round barrow
- Combe lynchet system on Oxendean Down
- Strip lynchets immediately south west of Woodcombe Cleve
- Robin Hood's Bower earthwork enclosure in Southleigh Wood
- Bowl barrow 650m south east of Baycliffe Farm
- A pair of bowl barrows 225m south east of Boreham Mill
- Pair of bowl barrows 1050m NNW of Pertwood Wood
- Romano-British village on Tytherington Hill
- Bowl barrow on South Down Sleight
- Rabbit warren 580m and 660m south east of Fitzroy Farm
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Eastleigh Court
- Enclosure on the summit of Rodmead Hill
- Corton long barrow
- Bratton Camp Iron Age hillfort, the Westbury White Horse, barrows and trackways on Bratton Down
- Bowl barrow 700m south-west of Keysley Farm
- Medieval strip lynchets 370m south of Greater Lane Farm
- Bowl barrow 1050m north east of Wood Farm
- Middlehill settlement and associated cultivation earthworks.
- Round Barrow on Summer Down
- Cross ridge dyke on Warminster Down
- Strip lynchet system north of Cotley Hill
- Colloway Clump long barrow
- Medieval strip lynchets 280m west of Hill Barn
- Strip lynchet system west of Patcombe Hill
- Section of Roman road on Pertwood Down
- Motte and double ringwork east of Bishopstrow Farm
- Barrow 300yds (270m) NE of White Sheet camp
- Romano-Celtic temple 300m south west of Keysley Farm
- Earthwork enclosure in Great Ridge wood, 350m north east of Point Pond
- Medieval settlement and associated field systems west of Brook Farm
- Hill Deverill medieval settlement
- Bowl barrow 130m south-west of North End Farm
- Bowl barrow south of Biss Farm, Upton Scudamore
- Moated site on the West Wiltshire Industrial Estate
- Bowl barrow on the summit of Cop Heap
- Bowl Barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- Cross dyke on Mere Down, east of White Sheet Hill hillfort
- Bowl barrow 445m south west of East Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow 560m north east of Lord's Hill Farm
- Bell barrow on Parsonage Down, 1.3km south east of Lord's Hill Farm
- Saucer barrow above Boar's Bottom
- Bowl barrow 600m south west of the northernmost of The Druses
- Two cross ridge dykes 710m and 790m east of Wellhead Farm
- Long barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill
- Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Field Barn Farm
- Three bowl barrows on Whitepits Down
- Barrow NE of Mere Down Farm
- Long barrow, Tinhead Hill
- Oval barrow 1260m north west of Mere Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 670m SSE of Kingston Dairy
- Disc barrow 350m west of Dee Barn
- Pond Bottom round barrow
- Bowl barrow 730m south of Greater Lane Farm
- Round barrow on the summit of Cotley Hill
- Rough Barrow, round barrow, south of Sealland Cross
- Bowl barrow 40m south of Buckler's Wood
- Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures
- Enclosure and linear earthworks between Bishopstrow Down and South Down Sleight
- Scrubbed Oak enclosure and linear boundary earthwork
- Bowl barrow 270m south west of Norton Bavant House
- Iron Age earthwork enclosure on Mancombe Down
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- West Hill long barrow
- Long barrow 250m east of Polebridge Farm
- Hillfort, two bowl barrows, medieval strip lynchets and a cross dyke on Cley Hill
- White Sheet Hill ditch
- Henge monument 350m north-east of Long Ivor Farm
- Bowl barrow immediately east of Bishopstrow House
- Monk's Conduit well house
- Enclosure south-east of White Horse Farm
- Earthwork on White Sheet Downs, 800yds (730m) S of Coombe Barn
- Two bowl barrows 560m and 670m east of Rodmead Farm
- Dunge moated site
- Two bowl barrows and a saucer barrow on Picquet Hill
- Bowl Barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow north of Dirtley Wood
- Two saucer barrows 775m south east of Rodmead Farm
- Bowl barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill, 910m north east of Seagram's Barn
- Norton Down long barrow
- Bowl barrow 1.1km ESE of White Sheet Castle
- Long barrow on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn
- Bowl's Barrow, long barrow
- Iron Age settlement on Cow Down, 990m north west of Haycombe Hill Farm
- Round barrow SW of Parsonage Down
- Field system on the north west facing slope of Dane's Bottom, 400m north of Dee Barn
- Bell barrow on Rook Hill, 200m west of Pertwood Wood
- Bowl barrow 760m north west of The Down House
- Battlesbury Camp Monuments: hillfort, settlement, cemetery, barrows, enclosure, and field systems
- Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down
- Bowl barrow 500m north of Starveall
- Bowl barrow 85m north of Bishopstrow House
- Earthwork enclosure 850m north of Mere Down Farm
- Bell barrow 350m north of Haydon Farm
- Bowl Barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- The Park round barrow
- Four lynchets 610m west of Kingston Dairy
- Bowl barrow 200m south-west of Keysley Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow 250m north of Truncombe Wood
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Two bowl barrows and a pond barrow, 720m and 760m NE of Wood Farm
- Lock up 20m south of Little London Cottage in the High Street
- Two round barrows in Chaddenwick Furze
- Three bowl barrows north of South Down Sleight
- Bowl barrow 750m north east of Newmead Cottages
- Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick Hill
- Round barrow east of South Down Sleight
- Bowl barrow 700m south east of Field Barn
- Bowl barrow 240m north of Mere Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 735m SSE of Kingston Dairy
- Cross dyke 920m north east of Dairy Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south east of Fitzroy Farm
- Bowl barrow on Brimsdown Hill, 100m south of Duke's Clump
- Oxendean Down long barrow
- White Sheet camp
- Strip lynchet system east of Cotley Hill Woods
- King Barrow: a long barrow 100m north of Bishopstrow House
- Regular aggregate field system and double lynchet trackway 640m south east and 460m east of Dee Barn
- Bowl barrow on Arn Hill Down, 450m east of New Farm
- Strip lynchets south of Westdown Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow 500m south of Upton Scudamore
- Middleton Down long barrow
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow 500m south-east of Eastleigh Court
- Section of Roman road 760m south west of Lower Barn Farm
- Bowl barrow 150m east of Marcombe Wood
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow on Keysley Down, 250m west of the A350 Warminster-Shaftesbury Road
- Bowl barrow 940m north east of Wood Farm
- The Knoll: a bell barrow 300m west of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow south-east of The Crott
- Bowl barrow on edge of Dirtley Wood
- Bowl barrow 640m south east of Greater Lane Farm
- Roman Villa at Brixton Deverill
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- Moated site 400m east of Penleigh House
- Linear boundary on Bidcombe Down and Whitepits Down
- Bowl barrow on Littlecombe Down
- Bowl barrow east of Court Hill Plantation
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Cross dyke 870m north west of Burton Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow 125m south of Dairy Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- Bowl barrow 1480m east of Keysley Farm
- Bowl barrow 1110m south east of St Michael's Church
