West Overton
West Overton is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near West Overton including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
The area around West Overton boasts some of the best historic monuments including Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill are great places to visit near West Overton if you like ancient sites.
There are a number of historic buildings near to West Overton including Avebury Manor.
Coate Water Country Park is one of West Overton's best, nearby country parks to visit in West Overton.
Don't miss Coate Water's lakes if visiting the area around West Overton.
Villages to visit near West Overton include Ashton Keynes.
West Overton History
There are some historic monuments around West Overton:
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Sharpridge field system
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Stone circle
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Rybury camp
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Castle mound
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- 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 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Langdean stone circle
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow 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
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Swanborough Tump
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- 'The Spectacles'
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Mound in churchyard
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow 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
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Preshute Down field system
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Bell barrow on Easton Down
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Withy Copse ditch
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Medieval village site
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
