Wroughton
Wroughton is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Wroughton including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
The area around Wroughton boasts some of the best historic monuments including Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Ancient Sites to visit near Wroughton include Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Wroughton is near some unmissable historic buildings like Avebury Manor,
Wroughton is near some unmissable country parks like Coate Water Country Park,
The area around Wroughton's best lakes can be found at Coate Water.
Villages to visit near Wroughton include Ashton Keynes.
Wroughton History
There are some historic monuments around Wroughton:
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Remains of Holy Rood Church, The Lawn, Old Town
- Bincknoll Camp
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Whitefield Hill ditch
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Hillfort and lynchets on Castle 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
- Medieval settlement remains at Overtown
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Mound in churchyard
- Cross in the churchyard of St John the Baptist and St Helen
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow, West Leaze
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- 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
- Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Stone circle
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Liddington Castle
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Four Highworth circles 150m north east of Pickett's Copse
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Church Hill earthwork
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Hall Place
- Preshute Down field system
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Earthwork on Paven Hill
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Site of watermill 290m south east of West Leaze
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Lower Upham Farm
- Sharpridge field system
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Post mill at Church Hills
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
- Medieval rural settlement 240m south of Lower Woodshaw Farm
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross
- Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm
